CFO Georgia Market

About the role

The Area Vice President Financial Operations, Georgia serves as the senior financial leader for the Georgia Market and a key member of the executive leadership team. This role provides strategic and operational financial oversight, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities while supporting market performance, growth, and long-term sustainability.

Major Responsibilities

• Serve as the accountable finance leader for financial operations, including managing performance of the clinical assets (wholly owned and joint venture/other partnerships) and influencing and supporting performance of academic, research, and corporate (administrative and clinical) assets and departments.
• Manages, plans and organizes the financial operations of the Georgia Market including financial performance, analytics and reporting, planning, budgeting and capital management.
• Directs completion and reviews/reports on financial performance. Identifies, assesses, documents, and monitors opportunities to maximize revenue and manage expenses to budget/forecast. Identifies and drives opportunities for savings with executive leadership team.
• Evaluates and improves financial operations and related policies to ensure that they best support an integrated approach to service delivery. Leads collaboration efforts with Georgia Market leadership, ensuring alignment, completion and maintenance of annual Long Range Financial Plan and operating and capital budget processes.
• Analyzes variances to budgets/forecasts and communicates such to Market and Division operations and finance leadership. Partners with operations leaders to ensure financial targets are met and/or exceeded.
• Serves as the advisor to Georgia Market leadership, for matters that affect its financial performance, including cultivating relationships with key matrix departments such as corporate accounting, managed health resources and reimbursement, revenue cycle and health information management, supply chain, human resources, nursing, information technology, facilities management, and others.
• Works collaboratively with operations management and corporate revenue cycle departments (Patient Access and Patient Financial Services, Health Information Management, Clinical Documentation Improvement, Reimbursement) to optimize revenue and performance and better understand/enhance payer and reimbursement trends.
• Standardizes work, processes and deliverables and ensures financial integration within and across the Market and individual patient care sites. Presents financial information to governance boards and subcommittees and Market/Division executive and management.
• Serves as the advisor to Georgia Market leadership, for matters that affect its financial performance, including cultivating relationships with key matrix departments such as corporate accounting, managed health resources and reimbursement, revenue cycle and health information management, supply chain, human resources, nursing, information technology, facilities management, and others.
• Represents NC/GA Division and Advocate Health CFO(s), as applicable, in advising Enterprise leadership via committee, working groups, project teams, etc., in the domains of revenue growth, expense management, and strategic planning, particularly for clinical/service line and corporate operations.

Qualifications

• Comprehensive experience in senior financial management, including substantial experience in complex P&L management, financial reporting, accounting policy development, internal control design and remediation, systems implementation, not for profit tax compliance, and management of internal and external audit issues.
• CFO or VP-Finance experience in a hospital or health system with multi-site, multi-disciplinary components, including comprehensive Medical Group/Service Lines is preferred.
• Deep understanding and experience with comprehensive revenue cycle management and reimbursement, as well as the systems that support the function and a measurable track record of success in cost management.
• Knowledge of fundamentals and advance practices in the field of financial management as it relates to integrated health systems and hospitals.
• Commitment to truth and transparency; leads with authenticity.
• Ability to quickly respond to organizational constraints and industry pressures which occur in an environment of intense change.
• In-depth understanding of the key business issues and emerging trends in the healthcare industry.
• Effectively represents the enterprise with elected officials, agency representatives and the community.
• Demonstrates capacity to rapidly analyze and synthesize relevant quantitative and qualitative information.
• Pursues innovation; drives the organization to advance the mission via breakthrough thinking.
• Visible and unifying leader.
• Able to lead and influence change in a matrix environment.
• Possess strong management skills, ability to multi-task, and be able to direct and evaluate the performance of others.