Sr. Strategic Finance Partner

About the role

Cohere Health is seeking a Strategic Finance Partner to support its growth and margin expansion. This role involves embedding within various operating groups and business units to improve profitability and scalability, focusing on enhancing contribution margins across all service lines.

Responsibilities

• Develop strong business relationships with Cohere’s operations, portfolio, clinical, and customer experience teams to understand their goals and processes.
• Ideate, initiate, track, and monitor operational initiatives, milestones, and ongoing work plans aimed at improving contribution margins and unit economic targets.
• Lead financial budgeting, forecasting, and operational reporting for all groups under your purview.
• Bring a challenger leadership mindset to current processes to identify and implement constructive solutions for optimizing efficiency and cost structures.
• Ensure each organization stays within their expense and headcount budgets.
• Support business case initiatives and present financials and metrics to leadership for investment considerations.
• Collaborate with the Corporate Finance team on strategic projects and serve as the financial expert in your domain areas.
• Manage 1-2 India-based financial analysts to enhance the speed of deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Experience leveraging systems, processes, and AI to increase speed to delivery
• Comfortable challenging the status quo and leading with a challenger mentality
• 10+ years of financial experience, preferably in profitability enhancement initiatives
• 5+ years of experience working with senior and C-level leadership
• Passion for building relationships with key stakeholders and prioritizing their needs
• Excellent project management and communication skills with strong interpersonal abilities
• Operational-minded financial leader capable of problem-solving across various stakeholders
• Ability to work cross-functionally, including with clinical and technical teams
• Willingness to travel up to 10% of the time

Benefits

The salary range for this position is $134,000 to $175,000 annually. The total benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, a 401(k) retirement plan with company matching, flexible spending and health savings accounts, flex time off plus company holidays, up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave, pet insurance, and more. Cohere Health is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all.

About Cohere Health

Cohere Health’s clinical intelligence platform provides AI-powered solutions to streamline access to quality care by improving payer-provider collaboration, cost containment, and healthcare economics. With over 660,000 providers and handling over 12 million prior authorization requests annually, Cohere Health has launched its Payment Integrity Suite, anchored by Cohere Validate™, an AI-driven clinical and coding validation solution. Recognized for innovation, Cohere Health has been named to the Inc. 5000 list and the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for U.S. Healthcare Payers, and ranked as a Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup. Backed by leading investors, Cohere Health aims to create a transparent healthcare ecosystem that enhances patient outcomes and provider satisfaction.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to fostering an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all.