AVP, CFO Prov & Clin Svc Lines - Finance - Full Time

Guthrie; Sayre (Bradford County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Guthrie Clinic seeks an AVP CFO Provider and Clinical Service Lines to lead the financial strategy and performance across the provider enterprise and multiple clinical lines. You will oversee forecasting, reporting, and financial decision support to improve access, capacity, productivity, and cost efficiency.

In collaboration with leaders, you will drive reimbursement strategies, cost accounting, and revenue cycle performance, ensuring timely, accurate analyses and actionable reporting aligned

Qualifications

• Progressive financial leadership experience in healthcare.
• Minimum of 5 years as a Finance leader in healthcare.
• Ability to collaborate with administrators, physicians, nurses, and service line leaders.
• Experience with budgetary/forecasting preparation and control.

Responsibilities

• Oversee financial operations of all clinical service line areas and provider enterprise.
• Lead financial strategic planning, forecasting, and resource allocation.
• Manage staff by setting performance goals and assessing policies.
• Conduct regular meetings to ensure compliance with established practices and updates.

Skills

Financial leadership

Healthcare finance

Strategic planning

Budgeting & forecasting

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

CPA or MBA desired

Tools

Cost accounting systems

ERP systems

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

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