Director, Finance

Covista; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision, life andDisabi

401k Retirement Program + 6% employer"

Flexible Time Off (FTO)

12 Paid Holidays

Job summary

Covista, a leading healthcare educator, seeks a Director of Finance to lead FP&A, performance management, and strategic decision support for a mission-driven institution. Reporting to the CFO, you will own the numbers shaping growth and craft narratives for leadership action.

You will bridge financial models with high-impact leadership interactions, building driver-based enrollment forecasts and communicating insights to Chamberlain’s leadership team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; MBA/CPA/CMA preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience with leadership.
• Ability to build forecasting tools and present to C-suite.

Responsibilities

• Lead annual budget, monthly forecast, and long-range plan.
• Build scalable forecast tools across student enrollment, tuition, and expenses.
• Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual executive reporting.
• Deliver monthly P&L, KPIs, and management reporting.
• Conduct variance, driver, scenario, and sensitivity analysis.
• Develop business cases for programs and investments.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to improve outcomes.
• Support multi-year strategy with enrollment and profitability analysis.
• Improve FP&A processes, tooling, and data quality.
• Track ROI post-investment and inform decisions.

Skills

Financial modeling

Forecasting

Executive communication

Budgeting

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

MBA/CPA/CMA preferred

Tools

AI-enabled analytics

Job description

About Covista

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University. Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers. We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment. For more information, visit covista.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

About Covista

Covista is America's largest healthcare educator, serving more than 97,000 students and supported by a community of 385,000 alumni across five accredited institutions. Through personalized, tech-enabled education powered by 10,000 faculty and colleagues, Covista expands access to healthcare careers and addresses the U.S. healthcare workforce shortage at scale. Covista is the parent company of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University. Our colleagues come from a wide range of backgrounds, business, academia, healthcare, government and nonprofits, and are part of a culture where doing exceptional work and making a meaningful difference for students and society aren't separate goals—they're one and the same. This means creating an environment where colleagues can develop new skills, build careers that match their ambitions and see the tangible impact of their work on healthcare education and workforce development. Colleagues who deliver results and embrace new tools to work smarter are valued for their contributions. But what makes working at Covista distinctive is our impact. Our faculty and colleagues don't just support healthcare education—they shape it. This isn't abstract purpose work. It's solving real problems for real people in real communities while advancing careers. We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment. For more information, visit covista.com and follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Job Description

Opportunity at a Glance

Chamberlain University is hiring a Director, Finance to lead financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision support for a mission-driven institution educating the next generation of healthcare professionals. Reporting directly to the CFO, you will own the numbers that shape how Chamberlain grows — and the narrative that helps leadership act on them.

This is a high-visibility leadership seat for a finance executive who moves fluidly between financial models and high-impact interactions with leadership teams. You will be as comfortable architecting a driver-based enrollment forecast against large, imperfect data sets as you are standing in front of Chamberlain’s leadership team explaining what it means and – most importantly – what to do about it.

Responsibilities

• Planning cycles. Annual budget, monthly forecast, and long-range plan — built on real business drivers and tied to strategic priorities.
• Forecasting infrastructure. Design and build complex, scalable forecast tools that work across large data sets — student-level enrollment, course registration, tuition, and expense detail — using the modern toolkit available to finance professionals today.
• Executive deliverables. Produce monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting packages and presentations for the C-suite, the board, and parent-company partners that are both polished and accurate.
• Performance reporting. Monthly P&L, KPI, and management reporting that makes trends, risks, and opportunities easy to understand. You will bring clarity and conciseness to complex financial analysis.
• Decision support. Variance, driver, scenario, and sensitivity analysis across enrollment, revenue, operating expense, and margin.
• Business cases. Models that underwrite new programs, capital investments, operational improvements, and resource allocation decisions.
• Cross-functional partnership. Embedded work with academic, operations, enrollment, marketing, and accounting teams to evaluate performance and improve outcomes.
• Multi-year strategy support. Enrollment, tuition, cost, and profitability analysis that tests growth strategies against organizational capacity.
• Process and tooling. Greater standardization, automation, and data quality across FP&A processes, planning tools, and dashboards.
• Initiative ROI. Post-investment tracking that refines assumptions and makes the next decision better than the last.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field. MBA, CPA, or CMA preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive FP&A or corporate finance experience, including direct people leadership and demonstrated ownership of enterprise planning processes.
• Deep command of financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and performance analysis — grounded in what drives value creation.
• Proven ability to build complex forecasting and analytical tools on large data sets, with fluency in the current technology stack available to finance professionals, including those enabled by AI.
• Demonstrated track record producing executive-level deliverables for C-suite and board audiences that are simultaneously polished and accurate — clean design, tight narrative, and the process discipline to do this in a repeatable, efficient manner that enables consistently meeting deadlines.
• Track record owning or materially influencing P&L management, executive reporting, and cross-functional decision support.
• Ability to lead complex analysis, triage competing priorities, and deliver quality work at pace.
• Communication that translates financial complexity into clear direction for non-financial audiences.
• Proven ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement.

Additional Information

In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $170,000. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. The position qualifies for the below benefits.

• Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
• 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
• Participation in Covista’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
• 12 Paid Holidays For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.covista.com/benefits You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

Equal Opportunity – Minority / Female / Disability / V / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation