Director, Financial Systems

Summa Health; Akron (OH); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Retirement Savings Plan

EAP

Job summary

Summa Health is seeking a Director of Financial Systems to lead the Finance ERP technology strategy and modernize the Workday Financials platform. You will partner with Finance leadership to design a world-class architecture and drive the roadmap, ensuring cross-functional alignment with IT and the broader business.

The role requires extensive healthcare finance experience, strong executive presence, and the ability to coordinate a team of SMEs through go-live readiness and post-implementation

Qualifications

• Ten years of progressive finance leadership in a healthcare or complex multi-entity organization with experience in accounting, close processes and financial reporting.
• Three (3) years of hands-on experience designing or administering Workday Financial Management preferred.
• Familiarity with Workday Financials concepts (FDM, accounting rules, business process frameworks) preferred.
• Healthcare finance background: grants management, fund accounting, or cost reporting familiarity preferred.
• Experience with Strata or other financial planning tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and modernization of the Finance ERP architecture in alignment with Finance leadership goals.
• Collaborate with Finance, IT and business stakeholders to translate needs into a scalable Workday Financials solution.
• Oversee data migration, business process configurations and change management for go-live.
• Bridge corporate finance, IT, and external integrators to ensure successful implementation and deployment.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related field

Tools

Workday Financial Management

Strata or other FP&A tools

Job description

Director, Financial Systems

Full-time / 40 hours per week / Hybrid Schedule

Location: 1077 Gorge Blvd, Akron, OH 44310

Summa Health System is recognized as one of the region’s top employers by a number of third party organizations, including NorthCoast 99. Exceptional candidates gravitate to Summa because of its culture, passion for delivering excellent service to our patients and families commitment to our philosophy of servant leadership, collegial working relationships at every level of the organization and competitive pay and benefits.

Summary:

Responsible for managing Finance ERP technology and tools and works directly with the Finance Leadership team to design the future architecture and drive the Finance Technology modernization roadmap. Translates Finance Leadership’s vision for a future into a world-class technology end-state architecture within Workday.

The role involves collaborating with key stakeholders across Finance, IT and the broader business to understand needs, identify improvement opportunities to develop and execute on the roadmap to accelerate our path to building a world-class finance function.

Drives the process to identify Summa Health's financial requirements, coordinates process decisions, and go-live sign-off for the Workday Financials implementation.

Serves as the central bridge between corporate finance, IT, and external system integrators to translate business requirements into a scalable Workday architecture. The director will lead financial data migration, business process configurations, and change management to ensure a successful go-live.

Minimum Qualifications:

1. Formal Education Required:

a. Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or Business related field

2. Experience and Training Required:

a. Ten (10) years of progressive finance leadership in a healthcare or complex multi-entity organization with experience in accounting, close processes and financial reporting

b. Three (3) years of hands-on experience designing or administering Workday Financial Management preferred

c. Familiarity with Workday Financials concepts (FDM, accounting rules, business process frameworks) preferred

d. Healthcare finance background: grants management, fund accounting, or cost reporting familiarity preferred

e. Experience with Strata or other financial planning tools preferred

3. Other Skills, Competencies and Qualifications:

a. Proven ability to align ERP system architecture with Finance strategic business priorities

b. Strong executive presence; comfortable making and defending design decisions in cross-functional sessions

c. Ability to coordinate a team of SMEs while remaining accountable for workstream-level decisions

d. Population Specific Competency: Ability to effectively interact with patients/customers with the understanding of their needs for self-respect and dignity

4. Level of Physical Demands:

a. Sedentary: Exerts up to ten pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

$72.89/hr - $109.34/hr

The salary range on this job posting/advertising is base salary exclusive of any bonuses or differentials. Many factors, such as years of relevant experience and geographical location are considered when determining the starting rate of pay. We believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members when determining offers. Please keep in mind that the range that is listed is the full base salary range. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical.

Summa Health offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program to include medical, dental, vision, life, paid time off as well as many other benefits.

• Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D)
• Supplemental Life and AD&D
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Accident Insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness
• Retirement Savings Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts – Healthcare and Dependent Care
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Education Assistance
• Daily Pay

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