Healthcare Tech Director- IT Strategy & Operations- Financial, EPM & Analytics

Hsmconsulting; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Huron is seeking a Director of Healthcare Digital Financial Performance, EPM, Data Analytics Architecture & Visualization to lead financial transformation engagements for health systems. You will advise CFOs and finance executives, translating challenges into EPM-enabled, data-driven solutions with measurable ROI.

You will design scalable analytics architectures, oversee multi-platform integration, and drive cost transparency, planning accuracy, and financial accountability across enterprise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration or related field.
• 10+ years of healthcare financial analytics, EPM or performance management with consulting experience.
• Hands-on experience implementing Strata (Strata Decision Technology) including cost accounting and service line analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, auditable financial analytics and EPM architectures using Strata, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Lead integration of EPM solutions with EHR/EMR, ERP, revenue cycle, claims, and supply chain systems.
• Establish standards for financial data models, metrics, reconciliation, lineage, and master data alignment.
• Ensure designs support enterprise financial governance, auditability, and scalability.
• Lead development of healthcare FP&A and performance analytics, including cost allocation and profitability insights.
• Enable rolling forecasts, scenario modeling, and what-if analysis across planning platforms.
• Support value-based care and contract performance analysis using margin insights.
• Embed financial insights into finance, operations, and strategic decision-making workflows.
• Design CFO dashboards, board-ready scorecards, and performance views across EPM and BI.
• Translate complex data into clear, decision-ready visual stories.
• Define reporting standards focused on accuracy and transparency.
• Advise on financial data governance, metric standardization, and master data alignment.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare financial reporting standards and internal controls.
• Partner with IT, audit, and compliance to ensure data integrity and security.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration or related field

Advanced degree (MBA) desirable

Tools

Strata

Workday Adaptive Planning

Oracle EPM

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The Director Healthcare Digital Financial Performance, EPM, Data Analytics Architecture & Visualization

The Director is responsible for helping healthcare organizations improve financial performance through enterprise performance management (EPM), advanced analytics, and executive-level visualization. As a senior consulting leader, you will specialize in advising and delivering solutions using Strata (Strata Decision Technology), Workday Adaptive Planning & Oracle EPM integrating these platforms with clinical, operational and financial data to drive margin improvement, cost transparency, planning accuracy and financial accountability.

The Director serves as a trusted advisor to CFOs, finance executives and enterprise leadership leading financial transformation engagements that connect strategy, planning and performance with actionable insights. In this role, you will translate financial and operational challenges into EPM-enabled, data-driven solutions with measurable ROI.

As the Healthcare Technical Consulting Director, you will:

• Design and advise on scalable, auditable financial analytics and EPM architectures leveraging Strata, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM, and Microsoft Fabric
• Lead integration of EPM solutions with EHR/EMR, ERP, revenue cycle, claims, and supply chain systems
• Establish standards for financial data models, metric definitions, reconciliation, lineage, and master data alignment
• Ensure solution designs support enterprise financial governance, auditability, and long-term scalability
• Lead development of healthcare FP&A and performance analytics, including cost allocation, contribution margin and profitability, service line and provider performance, workforce productivity, and revenue cycle insights
• Enable rolling forecasts, scenario modeling, and what-if analysis across planning and performance platforms
• Support value-based care and contract performance analysis using cost and margin insights
• Embed financial insights into finance, operational, and strategic decision-making workflows
• Design and oversee CFO-level dashboards, board-ready scorecards, and performance management views across EPM and BI platforms
• Translate complex, multi-platform financial data into clear, decision-ready visual stories
• Define visualization and reporting standards focused on accuracy, transparency, and actionability
• Advise on financial data governance frameworks, including metric standardization, stewardship, and master data alignment
• Ensure compliance with healthcare financial reporting standards, audit requirements, and internal controls.
• Partner with IT, audit, and compliance teams to ensure data integrity, traceability, and security across EPM environments
• Contribute to growth of the healthcare financial analytics and EPM consulting practice through solution development and delivery
• Develop thought leadership on healthcare cost transparency, FP&A maturity, and EPM modernization
• Lead and mentor cross-functional consulting teams, including financial analysts, EPM specialists, data architects, and analytics engineers
• Provide strategic and technical guidance to ensure high-quality, finance-focused delivery

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration or related field; advanced degree (e.g., MBA) highly desirable
• 10+ years of experience in healthcare financial analytics, EPM or performance management with significant experience in consulting or professional services
• Proven track record delivering margin improvement, cost transparency, and planning transformation initiatives
• Hands-on experience implementing or advising on Strata (Strata Decision Technology) including cost accounting, service line analytics and perfor