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Job Description
Summary:
Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, the AVP, CFO Provider and Clinical Service Lines, serves as the senior finance leader for the provider enterprise and assigned clinical service lines, including but not limited to cardiology, pharmacy, oncology, and ambulatory networks. This role is accountable for financial strategy, planning, forecasting, performance management, and decision support across multiple care sites. In partnership with physician, Advanced Practice Provider, and administrative leaders, the AVP CFO establishes financial and operational performance expectations; identifies opportunities to improve access, capacity, productivity, revenue, and cost efficiency; evaluates growth initiatives; and aligns resource allocation with patient care and organizational priorities.
In collaboration with designated subject-matter leaders, the AVP/CFO provides financial oversight and strategic direction for reimbursement, managed care contracting, provider enterprise accounting, cost accounting and decision support, revenue cycle performance, and operational and financial benchmarking. The role is responsible for ensuring that analyses, recommendations, and performance reporting are accurate, timely, actionable, and aligned with organizational standards.
Education:
Bachelor's degree required: CPA or Master's degree in Business Administration desired. Experience: Progressive financial leadership experience required, with a minimum of 5 years as a Finance leader in a healthcare setting. Demonstrated ability to collaborate with administrators, physicians, nurses, service line leaders, managers, and employees using effective leadership and process improvement practices. Requires strong organizational, time management, presentation, written, and verbal communication skills, with diplomacy and clarity in all interactions. Demonstrated understanding of financial and operational leadership issues in ambulatory and service line settings. Senior management level experience with budgetary/forecasting preparation and control, systems and procedures and fiscal control. Experience hiring, developing, and coaching staff, with a demonstrated record of building high-performing teams. Experience with providing management with valuable financial and operational reports, ability to translate data into presentable and useful management information. Experience with expense and cost control issues, including the development of such systems. Knowledge of best practices in healthcare finance, including systems expertise and hands-on experience with systems implementation.
Essential Functions:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
1. Financial operations oversight of all clinical service line areas and the provider enterprise to ensure that appropriate structure and resources exist in the department to accomplish its goals. Establish policies and procedures sufficient to support a financial environment where consistency, accuracy and accountability are paramount. 2. Facilitate financial strategic planning, business prioritization, forecasting and resource allocation processes for all clinical service areas and the provider enterprise. 3. Manage staff through establishing performance goals, allocation resources and assessing policies of direct reports. 4. Conduct regular meetings with staff to ensure compliance with established practices and keep Caregivers aware of current standards and changes that are occurring within the organization. 5. Prepare timely and reliable reports outlining the organization's financial position in all areas based on past, present and future operations. The information including variance analysis of actual to forecast performance will be communicated to organization leadership. 6. Ensure the timely preparation and filing of federal, state, third party and other financial reports as required. 7. Organize and maintain an effective system of accounting with focus on determining the adequacy of allowances for contractual adjustments, bad debts, related reserves for third-party payers and any other management judgement issues. 8. Coordinate with Revenue Cycle Leadership and operations to ensure revenue optimization, regulation compliance, accuracy, timeliness and customer satisfaction. 9. Identify "best practice" (using benchmarking tools) relating to financial and operational processes productivity, supply management...) for The Guthrie Clinic entities which will allow them to develop plans on how to adopt such best practice with the aim to improve performance. 10. Provide executive support to the provider enterprise governance committees and service line meetings.
Other Duties:
Other Duties as assigned
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About Us
Joining the Guthrie team allows you to become a part of a tradition of excellence in health care. In all areas and at all levels of Guthrie, you’ll find staff members who have committed themselves to serving the community.
The Guthrie Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
The Guthrie Clinic is a non-profit, integrated, practicing physician-led organization in the Twin Tiers of New York and Pennsylvania. Our multi-specialty group practice of more than 500 physicians and 302 advanced practice providers offers 47 specialties through a regional office network providing primary and specialty care in 22 communities. Guthrie Medical Education Programs include General Surgery, Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Anesthesiology and Orthopedic Surgery Residency, as well as Cardiovascular, Gastroenterology and Pulmonary Critical Care Fellowship programs. Guthrie is also a clinical campus for the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine.
