The Director of Strategic Finance Analytics operates at a critical intersection in the business, helping to connect our strategy, commercial operations, and financials with our planning processes, and enforcing accountability to those plans. The Director will be responsible for building detailed bottoms-up financial models, conducting ad-hoc competitive research and business case modeling to help support financial objectives. This position will oversee the data strategy, insights, and storytelling across the customer journey and marketing touchpoints, initiatives, and system objectives. The Director of Strategic Finance Analytics will serve as the liaison between Strategy/Business Development and Finance. They will support decision-making and provide insight into strategic, cost management, performance improvement and other business decision making. This position reports to the Chief of Financial Planning & Analysis. The Director will be accountable for translating analytics and data into strategic recommendations to senior leaders.

Essential Duties:

• Provides management a clear picture and direction of future performance by transforming the overarching company strategy into a Long-Term Plan, tied into the annual operating plan and cash flows budgets
• Articulates project objectives in the context of the situation during discussions and key meetings with the team.
• Develops hypotheses focused on organizational issues and construct a realistic and comprehensive approach, including analytic plans and methodologies, to solving issues.
• Defines analytic approaches, integrates multiple analyses, and develops an understanding of organizational opportunities to support the business opportunity.
• Gathers and refines complex data sets and data sources to enable accurate and robust quantitative analysis.
• Leverages financial modeling to forecast operating and profitability performance and set annual targets for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Collaborates with the Enterprise Data & Analytics team to develop reporting dashboards for system use, to foster transparency on performance of initiatives
• Understands the financial and operational drivers of our business at a granular level and provide critical support spanning all areas of the business by taking on a wide range of strategic analytical projects.
• Provides insight into hypotheses under consideration and contributes to team's understanding of overall opportunity to drive powerful solutions.
• Creates elegant, multi-issue communications, presents analytic findings and recommendations, and fields questions with minimal support.
• Draws upon healthcare knowledge, trends, and experiences to highlight relevant implications for the organization.
• Engages with leaders to ensure meaningful results are achieved and builds ongoing relationships.
• Works with the leadership of Analytics, Strategy & Finance to build teamwork and continuously improve department methods, processes, and coordination.
• Supports FP&A with the annual plan budgets/forecasts, cash flow forecasts, slides and storyline development used for Management and Senior Leadership approvals
• Coordinates work efforts across the Health System to insure alignment of prioritization.
• Fosters excellence in analytics.
• Promotes an open, positive, professional, team-oriented environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Req Bachelors Degree in a quantitative/analytically challenging field (Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering etc.)

• Req 8 years Experience in strategic analytics and FP&A areas
• Req 8 years Experience in healthcare market research and business analysis
• Req Experience with Business Analytics / Intelligence tools.

• Req Exceptional understanding of professional finance and accounting in a health care setting.
• Req Intellectual curiosity about improving health care delivery.
• Req Succinct communicator who thinks well on feet and tailors communication in way that reflects understanding of situation.
• Req Excellent written and oral communication skills; experienced presenter of key messages to broad audiences including Senior Stakeholders
• Req Knowledge in all or most of the following areas: utilizing database tools for research and analysis, building, and maintaining data models, utilizing decision support tools in a healthcare environment.
• Req Expertise in quantitative market research methods
• Req Expertise in data governance and analytics
• Req Ability to work effectively with Health System senior leadership for purposes of supporting enterprise financial decisions.
• Req Working knowledge of all statutory legislation and regulations.
• Req Strong personnel management skills
• Req Comfortable manipulating and synthesizing data.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Pref Masters degree MBA or MPH
• Pref Health System or Healthcare experience
• Pref Progressive leadership work experience and supervising a team

Required Licenses/Certifications:

• Req Fire Life Safety Training (LA City) If no card upon hire, one must be obtained within 30 days of hire and maintained by renewal before expiration date. (Required within LA City only)

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