Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Cove Prep

Acadia Healthcare; Torrance (PA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Stock-based awards

Paid time off

Professional development

Career mobility

Job summary

Acadia Healthcare’s Cove PREP in Torrance, PA seeks a strategic Chief Financial Officer to lead financial operations and treasury, directing monthly close, revenue cycle, budgeting, and cost controls. You will partner with senior leaders to drive financial performance in a secure adolescent care setting.

The role requires CPA or advanced degree preferred, 3+ years CFO experience in healthcare, and strong leadership and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or business‑related field with major in Accounting.
• Minimum 3 years CFO experience in healthcare preferred.
• Behavioral healthcare experience highly preferred.
• Proven financial analysis skills.
• Experience with IT systems and MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Ensures monthly financial statements are completed timely and accurately.
• Reconciles balance sheet accounts monthly and corrects variances.
• Prepares corporate reports (MOR, Monthly Certifications, Disclosures, Forecasts).
• Ensures internal controls and audit readiness.
• Directs Revenue Cycle to optimize cash collections and minimize uncompensated care.
• Oversees Front End Revenue Cycle processes including insurance verification and discounts.
• Maintains knowledge of reimbursement methodologies and cost reporting.
• Supervises Accounting, Patient Accounting, HIM, Materials Mgmt and HR as needed.
• Monitors purchasing to control supply costs within budget.
• Prepares annual operating budget and capital budgets; analyzes variances.

Skills

Financial analysis

Excel

Word

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Emotional intelligence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or business field (Accounting major)

CPA or Master’s degree a plus

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

Overview

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Cove PREP

Cove PREP located in Torrance, PA is a Secure Care facility that exists to treat adolescent males, ages 12-20, who have committed sexual offenses. Cove PREP’s vision is to provide state-of-the‑art, research‑based assessment and treatment for adolescent male sexual offenders.

We are looking to hire a facility Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Cove PREP. The CFO is an integral part of the senior leadership team and expected to participate in the financial and functional decision‑making processes necessary for the successful attainment of the facility’s operational and financial goals. The Facility CFO has responsibility and is accountable for overall financial operations and all aspects of the day‑to‑day fiscal management of the facility.

This Opportunity offers the following:

• Competitive compensation with industry leading annual performance-based bonus opportunity
• Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) with company match to support your financial future
• Stock-based awards, giving you a stake in Acadia’s success
• Generous paid time off for vacation, sick days, and holidays
• Professional development & leadership training to sharpen your skills
• Career mobility within Acadia’s nationwide network of 250+ facilities

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities as CFO:

• Ensures that monthly financial statements are completed timely and accurately.
• Ensures that all balance sheet accounts are reconciled on a monthly basis and in compliance with company policies and standards and that any outstanding variances are identified and corrected timely.
• Prepares corporate required reports (including the Monthly Operating Report, Monthly Certifications, Corporate Disclosures, Forecasts) timely and accurately.
• Ensures all accounting and business office policies and required internal controls are in place to facilitate a clean audit with no material audit adjustments or deficiencies found. Ensures that all approval processes are in place.
• Directs the operations of the Revenue Cycle to ensure that accounts receivable is collected timely and uncompensated care is kept to a minimum. Strives to achieve goals for cash collections and AR days and to reduce bad debt and denials. Routinely reviews revenue cycle metrics to proactively identify and address issues affecting overall performance.
• Is actively involved in ensuring Front End Revenue Cycle processes are in place including ensuring the insurance verification is completed on 100% of patients, working with the Financial Counselor to ensure proper determination of patient portions and approval of any discounts or charity and proper logging of upfront collections.
• Maintains a thorough working knowledge of federal, state and managed care reimbursement methodologies to ensure that facility is paid accurately, and revenue deductions are recorded accurately. Facilitates preparation of any required cost reports.
• Supervises Accounting, Patient Accounting, Health Information Management, Materials Management and other departments assigned by the CEO. These departments may include, but are not limited to, Health Information Management, Materials Management, and Human Resources. Ensures department is adequately staffed and trained.
• Ensures compliance with Group Purchasing contract and monitors purchases to ensure supply costs are kept to budgeted levels.
• Prepares annual operating budget and participates in the annual strategic planning process which serves as a basis for the budget. Provides ongoing analysis of variances from budget and assists the CEO in implementing changes needed to achieve budget goals.
• Prepares annual capital budgets and Capital Equipment Requests. Ensures assets and related depreciation is recorded accurately and in compliance with company policies.

Qualifications

CFO Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or business‑related field with major in Accounting.
• Minimum 3 years successful CFO experience in a healthcare setting desired.
• Previous Behavioral healthcare experience highly preferred.
• Previous experience with a proprietary healthcare system highly preferred.
• CPA or Master’s degree a plus.
• Proven financial analysis skills.
• Experience working with information technology and proficiency with software packages including Excel and Word.
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to think strategically and solve problems.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with facility staff, physicians and corporate staff.
• Ability to lead with a high degree of emotional intelligence and ethics.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment regardless of an individual’s characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and local laws.

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