Director, Physician Finance and Analytics

Alameda Health System; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Alameda Health System in Oakland, CA seeks a Director, Physician Finance and Analytics, a senior finance leader responsible for advancing physician financial performance, workforce strategy, and clinical business analytics. Reporting to the CFO with a dotted-line to the CMO, the Director translates complex physician, clinical and financial data into actionable strategies for organizational priorities.

The Director leads physician financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance or related field.
• Seven years of healthcare data experience including physician compensation models and Medicare payment models.
• Experience with financial/billing healthcare data (ICD-10, CPT, DRG).
• Proficient in Excel and Pivot tables.
• Project management, consulting or decision support experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as strategic advisor translating financial and operational data into clear recommendations.
• Oversee physician financial performance, productivity, compensation, and service-line economics.
• Develop executive financial reporting, dashboards and performance analytics.
• Lead physician budgets, forecasts and financial performance plans.
• Identify opportunities for revenue enhancement, cost optimization, and resource utilization.
• Evaluate new/existing service lines and programs with leadership to guide investments.
• Support strategic business development for the long-range plan.
• Perform other duties as assigned by executive leadership.

Skills

Healthcare data analysis

Physician compensation models

Medicare payment models

Excel

Pivot tables

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting/finance

Master's degree in healthcare administration / MBA / CPA

Tools

Relational database systems

Job description

Director, Physician Finance and Analytics

• Oakland, CA

• Finance

• Financial Planning + Analysis

• Full Time - Day

• Management

• $84.39- $140.65/ per hour

• Req #:44825-33351

• FTE:1

• Posted:October 14, 2026

Summary

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.

Alameda Health System is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, sex, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, veteran status, or military background.