Controller

Salina Regional Health Center; Kansas; On-site; USD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Salina Regional Health Center seeks a Controller to lead accounting, financial reporting, and decision support across the health system. Reporting to the CFO, this role ensures integrity of financial operations and delivers meaningful analysis to drive strategic decisions.

Responsibilities include overseeing decision support, Medicare cost reporting, cost accounting, budgeting, and coordinating external audits while partnering with leadership to guide performance.

Qualifications

• Requires strong financial acumen and leadership.
• Experience with healthcare accounting and cost reporting is preferred.
• Ability to communicate complex financial information clearly.

Responsibilities

• Oversee accounting, financial reporting, and decision support.
• Ensure integrity of financial operations and audit readiness.
• Partner with executives to deliver financial insights for strategy.

Job description

The Controller provides leadership, direction, and oversight for the health system's accounting, financial reporting, and decision support functions. Reporting to the CFO, this role is responsible for ensuring the integrity and accuracy of the organization's financial operations while delivering meaningful financial analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making.

Key areas of responsibility include oversight of the Decision Support department, Medicare cost reporting, third-party reimbursement and contractual allowance analyses, cost accounting, financial benchmarking, and the development of financial and operational reports used to guide organizational performance. The Controller also directs all core accounting functions, including accounts payable, cash management, general accounting, financial and statistical reporting, annual budgeting, and coordination of the organization's annual external audit.

As a key member of the finance leadership team, the Controller partners with operational and executive leaders across Salina Regional Health Center to provide financial insights, enhance reporting capabilities, support fiscal stewardship, and drive informed decision-making throughout the organization.

Essential Job Functions

Quality

• As a leader within the organization, the employee understands and embraces their responsibility to uphold the SRHC Leadership Expectations and demonstrates them consistently in daily practice.
• Facilitates departmental operations by removing barriers and ensuring access to the services, supplies, and equipment necessary to achieve high-quality outcomes.
• Develops and implements the annual operating plan and departmental goals in alignment with the health center’s mission, vision, and strategic priorities. Establishes clear, meaningful reporting processes to communicate financial performance, support special initiatives, and present financial analyses that inform organizational decision-making.

Access

• Demonstrates critical thinking, sound judgment, and professional insight in communication and collaboration to foster teamwork, lead change, resolve conflict, and continuously improve key systems and processes that support efficient and effective service delivery.
• Promotes the growth and development of staff by establishing clear expectations, providing ongoing coaching and mentorship, and conducting timely and effective performance evaluations.
• Actively participates in health center initiatives that advance SRHC’s organizational and community goals and serves as a positive ambassador for the health center within the community.

Stewardship

• Develops, recommends, analyzes, and manages financial plans, budgets, and productivity benchmarks to support organizational performance. Oversees staffing levels in alignment with patient volumes and operational demands while ensuring departmental goals and operations are consistent with best practices and organizational strategies.
• Develops and implements departmental policies and procedures and ensures compliance with SRHC policies, applicable federal and state regulations, accreditation standards, and the SRHC
• Code of Conduct.

Salina Regional Health Center History

SRHC was formed in 1995 with the purpose of improving the health of the people it serves. It was founded on the now century-old Christian heritages of its predecessor hospitals Asbury-Salina Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Regional Health Center. The intent was to develop a regional health care system driven by the needs of the communities served. SRHC intended to achieve its mission through teamwork within the organization and collaboration with individuals, organizations, and communities. Years later, SRHC is markedly different in structure and operations but fundamentally similar in purpose.

Now Salina Regional Health Center is a 393-bed community-owned regional hospital and Level III Trauma Center. It serves as a major referral hub for north-central Kansas, employing more than 120 physicians across a wide range of specialties.

It is an integrated health system, and primary care physicians are an integral part of SRHC. The connection between a patient and his or her primary care physician is the relationship that most impacts health. Subspecialist physicians also are an integral part of SRHC, so we have the necessary elements for clinically integrating primary, subspecialty and hospital care. Affiliations with health care providers throughout the Sunflower Health Network have built a foundation for taking that integration to a regional level. Through its hospitals, physicians, clinical and support services, and affiliates, SRHC improves wellness, strives to provide exceptional care for the sick and injured, and meets health needs from prenatal care to end of life.

SRHC insists on excellence. Throughout SRHC there is a culture of continuous improvement to achieve ever higher standards of patient access, clinical and service quality, affordability, and organizational sustainability. Throughout this culture is the insistence that we do what’s best for the patient.

SRHC provides systems of health and systems of care. As the regional leader in north central Kansas providing a full continuum of integrated services, SRHC embraces the role of facilitating regional integration.