Vice President of Finance

About Clarity Clinic

Clarity Clinic is an interdisciplinary private practice bringing together Psychiatrists, Advanced Practice Providers (PAs, NPs), Psychologists, and Therapists. Our mission is to guide the whole person toward clarity and mental wellness through exceptional, holistic care. We offer a broad range of specialties and treatment approaches — including medication management, psychological assessment, and psychotherapy — to support people wherever they are in life. Through this multidisciplinary model, we're redefining what accessible, comprehensive mental health care looks like.

Summary

Clarity Clinic is an interdisciplinary group private practice of Psychiatrists, Psychiatric Advanced Practice Providers (PAs, NPs), Psychologists, and Therapists. Our mission is to thoughtfully guide the whole person on their journey to find clarity and mental wellness by providing exceptional holistic care across multiple locations and service lines, including outpatient psychiatry and therapy, PHP/IOP, TMS, esketamine, and psychological testing. Clarity Clinic is seeking a mission-oriented, strategic finance leader to serve as Vice President of Finance in a period of rapid multi-site growth.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Own the organization's financial strategy, annual budget, and rolling forecast across all entities, sites, and service lines, in partnership with the CEO and COO.
• Produce accurate, timely, institutional-grade financial reporting and analysis for leadership, ownership, and external stakeholders, including monthly reporting packages, board-quality materials, and variance analysis.
• Build and maintain clean, well-documented financial records and reporting, including adjusted EBITDA and normalized earnings (add-back) analysis, that withstand lender, audit, or investor review.
• Model and monitor the financial impact of new clinic openings and expansion, including ramp economics, site-level P&L, capital planning, and return analysis to inform go/no-go and pacing decisions.
• Manage capital structure, banking relationships, and debt, including covenant compliance, reporting, and forecasting; serve as the primary finance contact for lenders and financing partners.
• Establish and maintain internal controls, accounting policies, and audit-readiness across the organization; own the integrity of the general ledger and the monthly close.
• Partner with the revenue cycle and billing functions to reconcile financial reporting against Electronic Health Record (EHR) as the system of record, and to improve the accuracy and predictability of net revenue, cash collections, and payor performance.
• Oversee cash flow and treasury, including forecasting, working capital management, and liquidity planning.
• Oversee risk management and finance-related legal activities, including business insurance, contracts, leases, and agreements; ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations, notably Illinois privacy and data security laws.
• Lead, develop, and grow the finance team; set standards, coach staff, and build a function that scales with the organization.

Qualifications And Minimum Requirements

• BS/BA in Accounting, Finance, or a related field required; advanced degree (MBA/MSF) preferred.
• CPA strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive finance leadership experience, including ownership of budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and controls in a high-growth organization.
• Healthcare finance experience required, ideally in a multi-site services setting.
• Demonstrated ability to build and operate institutional-grade financial reporting and controls, including adjusted EBITDA and add-back analysis, covenant management, and audit and diligence readiness, at the standard expected by lenders, auditors, and boards.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; experience with modern reporting and BI tools (e.g., Power BI) and integrating data from clinical/billing systems of record.
• Finance leadership within a high-growth, multi-site healthcare organization operating with external financing preferred.
• Multi-site or multi-entity healthcare finance experience, with site-level P&L ownership and consolidation, preferred.
• M&A and transaction diligence experience (buy-side or sell-side), including quality-of-earnings and add-back analysis, preferred.
• Lender and covenant management experience, including debt reporting and refinancing, preferred.

Competencies

• Financial Planning & Analysis: Builds and maintains the annual budget and rolling forecast across entities and sites; explains variances and drivers to leadership accurately and on schedule.
• Institutional-Grade Reporting: Produces reporting packages and board-quality materials that are accurate, timely, and structured to withstand external diligence, including adjusted EBITDA / add-back analysis.
• Controls & Close: Maintains internal controls, accounting policies, and a reliable monthly close; general ledger integrity is auditable with no material deficiencies.
• Capital & Covenant Management: Manages debt reporting and covenant compliance; produces lender reporting on time and models the impact of financing decisions.
• Growth & New-Site Economics: Models ramp economics and site-level P&L for expansion; provides analysis that informs go/no-go and pacing decisions.
• Revenue Cycle & Systems: Reconciles financial reporting against AdvancedMD as system of record; leverages BI tools to improve net revenue and cash forecasting accuracy.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others and to sit and use a keyboard. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk, and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Other Duties

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.