Director, Physician Finance and Analytics

Alameda Health System; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA seeks a Director of Physician Finance & Analytics to lead physician financial performance, workforce strategy, and clinical analytics. This senior role partners with the CFO and medical leadership to translate complex data into strategic actions that drive productivity, access, and value across the organization.

The Director oversees physician budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, and data-driven initiatives to optimize service-line economics and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field.
• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, MBA, CPA.
• Seven (7) years of health care information experience including physician compensation models, Medicare payment models, financial/billing data (ICD-10, CPT, DRG).
• Experience with project management, consulting or decision support and developing business plans.
• Experience analyzing data within relational database systems and tools, Excel, Pivot tables, etc.

Responsibilities

• Advise executives on physician finance and analytics strategies.
• Oversee physician productivity, compensation, and service-line economics.
• Develop executive dashboards and performance analytics for leadership.
• Lead annual budgets, forecasts, and financial plans for physicians.
• Identify revenue and cost optimization opportunities across stakeholders.
• Evaluate service lines with business plans, pro formas, and risk analyses.
• Support long-range strategic planning with Strategy and physician leadership.
• Perform other organizational duties as assigned by executive leadership.

Skills

Strategic finance leadership

Executive communications

Data-driven decision making

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field

Master’s degree in healthcare administration, MBA, CPA

Tools

Excel

Pivot tables

Relational databases

Job description

Director, Physician Finance and Analytics

Alameda Health System Oakland, California, United States

About this position

Director, Physician Finance and Analytics

SUMMARY: The Director, Physician Finance & Analytics is a senior strategic finance leader responsible for advancing Alamedas Health System’s physician financial performance, workforce strategy, and clinical business analytics. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer with a dotted-line relationship to the Chief Medical Officer/Chief Physician Executive, the Director serves as a trusted strategic advisor to executive, physician, and operational leadership, translating complex physician, clinical, operational, and financial data into actionable strategies that advance organizational priorities.

The Director leads physician financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and analytics, with accountability for evaluating physician productivity, compensation, workforce utilization, service-line economics, contracted services, and resource allocation. The role identifies and leads opportunities to improve physician productivity, access, revenue, cost efficiency, and financial sustainability while ensuring recommendations align with regulatory, compliance, fair-market-value, and organizational requirements.

In partnership with executive and physician leadership, the Director evaluates new and existing services, develops business cases and financial models, assesses strategic investments and workforce alternatives, and provides executive-level recommendations regarding growth, expansion, redesign, insourcing, outsourcing, and optimization of physician services. The Director also leads the development of executive dashboards, performance reporting, and long-range financial analyses that strengthen transparency, accountability, and data-driven decision-making across physician enterprise and clinical operations.

DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: NOTE: The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.

1. Serves as a strategic thought partner and advisor to executive and physician leadership, translating complex financial and operational information into clear business recommendations and executive-level presentations that enable informed decisions regarding resource allocation, physician strategy, service-line growth, and organizational sustainability.
2. Provides oversight of physician financial performance, including physician productivity, wRVUs, FTE utilization, compensation, specialty benchmarking, staffing models, physician contracts, coverage arrangements, and physician service-line economics. Identifies opportunities to optimize physician workforce investments and improve productivity, access, operational effectiveness, and financial sustainability.
3. Directs the development of executive-level financial reporting, dashboards, and performance analytics that provide leadership with timely and actionable information regarding financial performance, productivity, revenue, expenses, utilization, and strategic initiatives.
4. Leads development of physician annual budgets, forecasts, and financial performance plans. Establishes budgets to achieve financial targets and performance expectations and partners with operational and physician leadership to align resources with strategic priorities. Provides interpretation of financial results and recommends corrective actions when performance deviates from plan.
5. Identifies and leads enterprise opportunities for revenue enhancement, cost optimization, productivity improvement, and resource utilization. Develops data-driven recommendations and leads cross-functional teams involving Finance, physician leadership, clinical operations, Revenue Cycle, Human Resources, contracting, Legal, Compliance and other stakeholders. Facilitates alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities, translates identified opportunities into measurable financial and operational results.
6. Evaluates new and existing service lines and programs, including business plans, pro formas, volume and capacity analyses. Challenges assumptions, identifies financial and operational risks, and provides executive leadership with clear recommendations regarding investment, expansion, redesigning, insourcing, outsourcing, or discontinuation of services.
7. Supports strategic business development and programmatic opportunity assessments for inclusion in the AHS long range strategic plan in partnership with Strategy, physician leaders, executives, operational leaders, and internal and external stakeholders.
8. Performs other organizational duties as assigned by executive leadership.

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field required.

Preferred Education: Master’s degree in healthcare administration, or an MBA, CPA.

Required Experience: Seven (7) years of experience working with health care information; experience with physician compensation models, Medicare payment models, financial/billing healthcare data (ICD-10, CPT, DRG); project management, consulting or decision support; developing business plans; experience analyzing data within relational database systems and tools, Excel, Pivot tables, etc.