ADMINISTRATION -Chief Financial Officer

Legacysga; Valdosta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

24 days paid leave in first year

Retirement plan with 2% employer match

Job summary

Legacy Behavioral Health Services in Valdosta, GA seeks a Chief Financial Officer to lead financial operations and strategic planning. The CFO will report to the CEO and partner with senior leaders to ensure sound budgeting, risk management and performance analysis.

The role supervises the finance team, coordinates with IT on accounting systems, and supports organizational growth while maintaining compliance and high-quality behavioral health services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance is required; master's preferred.
• Minimum five years of CFO or senior financial leadership experience.
• Experience coordinating with IT to manage or upgrade accounting systems.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial management including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost analysis.
• Provide financial leadership to support organizational decision-making and strategic planning.
• Supervise the accounting and finance department and related IT and facilities support.

Skills

Financial leadership

Budget planning

Forecasting

Strategic decision making

Education

Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance

Master's degree preferred

Job description

Administration, 3120 N OAK ST EXT, VALDOSTA, Georgia, United States of America

Job Description

Posted Friday, August 21, 2026 at 4:00 AM

Are you passionate about mental health and looking for a meaningful career where you can make a real impact? Legacy Behavioral Health Services is seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join our team in Admin. In this role, you'll play a key part in supporting individuals and families throughout South Georgia with compassionate, high-quality behavioral health services.

The CFO reports to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and assumes a strategic role in the overall management of the organization. As a key member of the senior leadership team, the CFO serves as a credible, knowledgeable and trusted resource to the CEO and other senior leaders. This position is a hands-on and quality-focused financial executive with the experience that combines sound financial leadership with proven business effectiveness. The CFO is responsible for the financial management of the organization to include budget analysis and management, financial modeling and reporting, cost benefit analysis, forecasting needs, accounting operations, and development & implementation of business strategies. The CFO will offer quality, meaningful analyses, and financial perspectives necessary for organizational decisions and strategic planning. In addition to providing financial leadership to Behavioral Health Services of South Georgia, this position will be responsible for the administration, planning, forecasting and analysis of the financial risk based models related to new products or lines of business.

The CFO is responsible for the direct supervision of the controller and the indirect supervision of all employees in the accounting and finance department, information services, and facilities management. They serve as Assistant Administrator in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer.

Requirements:

• Bachelor Degree in Accounting or Finance; master's degree preferred
• 5 years minimum experience as a CFO or progressive financial leadership experience with minimum of five years in an operations position.
• Background coordinating with I.T. staff to manage and/or upgrade accounting system. Systems implementation experience strongly preferred.
• Health insurance: Quality, affordable coverage through State of Georgia employee benefit plans.
• Competitive pay
• 24 Days of paid leave in your first year
• Retirement Plans: Automatic 2% employer contribution to your 401(k), plus a 3% match after one year.

Why Legacy?

Legacy Behavioral Health Services is a leading provider of mental health and substance use services across 10 counties in South Georgia. Our mission is rooted in transforming lives through compassionate, individualized care.

Working Conditions:

Work is performed in a well-lighted, temperature-controlled, and humidity-controlled environment. May be requested on occasion to travel to trainings, conferences, and meetings as an organization representative. May be requested to travel within the sites in the organization. Ability to perform remote work from home office. Maybe exposed to infectious diseases.

Work Environment :

Sit, walk, and stand, may spend up to twenty-five percent of working time standing/walking. Lift, carry, push, pull generally, not more than 20 pounds. Bend, stoop, and kneel; occasional bending and kneeling may be required in troubleshooting equipment. Manual dexterity/wrist and hand repetitions: good manual and finger dexterity is needed; up to fifty percent of working time may be spent using a computer keyboard. Vision, hearing, speaking, must have good visual acuity and depth perception to operate the computer system; speaking and hearing are essential to the communication needs of the position. Must be physically and emotionally fit to work in a stress-filled environment to meet deadlines and deal with crisis situations. Occasional travel to off campus locations using LBHS vehicle may be required

ALL RELEVANT INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION

Position opened to: ALL QUALIFIED APPLICANTS

Internal Applicants must be in their current position for 6 months with no disciplinary action unless the position available is within your current department and you have been employed in your current position for 1 month without any disciplinary action.

Drug-Free and Smoke Free Workplace/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Administration, 3120 N OAK ST EXT, VALDOSTA, Georgia, United States of America