Network Finance Director

University of California - San Francisco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of California, San Francisco is seeking a Network Finance Director to partner with senior leadership, guiding financial strategy and operational support for the UCSF Health Network, with emphasis on community hospitals. This role focuses on turning data into actionable insights, optimizing systems, and driving proactive planning, budgeting, and performance improvement across the network.

Candidates should have extensive healthcare finance experience and the ability to lead complex

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years in healthcare finance.
• Advanced knowledge of organization's processes, protocols and procedures.
• Advanced planning, program and project management, facilitation and collaboration skills.
• Strong strategic thinking and consulting abilities guiding toward workable strategies.
• Proven ability to focus on priorities, strategies and vision.
• Advanced ability to coach, facilitate and influence across levels.
• Capability to build and maintain relationships with diverse staff and community members.
• Knowledge of common organization-specific and other computer application programs.
• Financial analysis and reporting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Network administrative leaders to deliver strategic financial leadership and actionable recommendations aligning with goals.
• Lead financial performance at community hospitals by maximizing value of systems, tools, and data infrastructure.
• Oversee productivity and labor management initiatives, including workforce analytics and cost-control strategies.
• Direct revenue cycle reviews and performance improvement efforts to optimize cash flow.
• Co-own month-end close responsibilities ensuring timely, accurate financial close.
• Develop and deliver higher-level analytics, dashboards, and insights for proactive decision-making.
• Conduct ad-hoc business reviews, scenario modeling, and strategic projects.
• Promote a culture of financial accountability, internal controls, and continuous improvement.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Healthcare finance

Financial analytics

Stakeholder management

Budgeting & forecasting

Cross-functional collaboration

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

The Network Finance Director serves as a key strategic partner to the Network's administrative leadership team, providing expert financial direction, guidance, and operational support across the UCSF Health Network. This role places particular emphasis on the Community Hospitals, driving the optimization of financial systems, processes, and resources to shift from reactive reporting to a proactive, forward-looking finance function that supports operational excellence.

Initial Key Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with Network administrative leaders to deliver strategic financial leadership, decision support, and actionable recommendations that align with organizational goals.
• Lead and strengthen financial performance at the community hospitals by maximizing the value of existing systems, tools, and data infrastructure.
• Oversee productivity and labor management initiatives, including workforce analytics, staffing efficiency, and cost-control strategies.
• Direct revenue cycle reviews and performance improvement efforts to enhance collections, reduce denials, and optimize cash flow.
• Co‑own month‑end close responsibilities, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant financial close processes across the Network.
• Develop and deliver higher‑level analytics, dashboards, and insights that enable proactive decision‑making.
• Conduct ad‑hoc business reviews, scenario modeling, and special projects to support strategic initiatives, volume growth, service‑line performance, and operational efficiency.
• Promote a culture of financial accountability, internal controls, transparency, and continuous improvement throughout the Network.

This position is instrumental in elevating the financial maturity of the UCSF Health Network—particularly its community hospital portfolio—by translating data into strategy and ensuring the organization extracts maximum value from its people, processes, and systems.

This role serves as key strategist with the VP/CFO, Network in initiating and developing new financial strategic direction, long‑ and short‑range plans and innovative initiatives. Has high level authority to make official commitments and to broadly represent the VP/CFO, Network's interests across the organization. Responds to issues with little or no precedence. May manage and administer independent program(s), typically with Network Business Unit‑wide impact, particularly within the Community Hospitals. May in the future manage professional staff handling diverse administrative functions such as human resources and budgetary planning. Uses advanced Finance concepts and organizational objectives to resolve highly complex issues. Regularly works on highly complex issues or problems which require analysis of unique issues / problems without precedent and / or structure. Exercises a high level of judgment in selecting methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.

Key Responsibilities

• 40%: Partner directly to achieve solutions with high level stakeholders, including the Network Business Unit president, the COO of the Network Division (SMG level) and other Network Business Unit leadership, community to develop solutions to complex problems. And deliver strategic financial leadership, decision support, and actionable recommendations that align with organizational goals providing briefings on key issues.
• 10%: Represents the CFO, Network Business Unit with authority to make decisions on high‑level task forces and long‑and short‑range strategic planning groups to lead and strengthen financial performance at the community hospitals by maximizing the value of existing systems, tools, and data infrastructure.
• 30%:
  • productivity and labor management initiatives, including workforce analytics, staffing efficiency, and cost‑control strategies
  • Direct revenue cycle reviews and performance improvement efforts to enhance collections, reduce denials, and optimize cash flow.
  • Develop and deliver higher‑level analytics, dashboards, and insights that enable proactive decision‑making.
  • Conduct ad‑hoc business reviews, scenario modeling, and special projects to support strategic initiatives, volume growth, service‑line performance, and operational efficiency.
  • Promote a culture of financial accountability, internal controls, transparency, and continuous improvement throughout the Network.
• 10%: Providing high level analyses on a broad range of financial issues, including new program proposals, including co‑owning with the Chief Accounting Officer month‑end close responsibilities, ensuring timely, accurate, and compliant financial close processes across the Network.
• 10%: In collaboration with other Finance departments, provide strategic oversight for the development of the annual budget; determining expense priorities, recommending and implementing changes to methods, unit planning, staffing, programs and other financial activities.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressive/combined in healthcare finance
• Advanced knowledge of the organization's processes, protocols and procedures.
• Advanced skills in short- and long-range planning, program and project management, facilitation and collaboration.
• Sound strategic thinking and consulting skills in guiding the organization toward workable strategies and solutions.
• Proven ability to focus on priorities, strategies, and vision.
• Advanced ability to coach, facilitation and influence people at all levels.
• Advanced ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of staff and members of the community.
• Knowledge of common organization-specific and other computer application programs.
• Financial analysis and reporting techniques.
• Demonstrates breadth and/or depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position; shares knowledge; sets or contributes to the Company's direction within area of expertise.
• Managing Expenses, Labor productivity and Finances: Knowledge of the principle and methodology of finance management and ability to use the functions, tools and processes needed to manage financial assets and liabilities throughout the organization.
• Budget Management: Knowledge of the principles and methodology of budget management and ability to utilize the tools, techniques and procedures needed to establish and monitor budgets.
• Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Knowledge of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis and ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer, product, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits.
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modeling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree preferred.

About UCSF

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. It is the only campus in the 10-campus UC system dedicated exclusively to the health sciences. We bring together the world's leading experts in nearly every area of health. We are home to five Nobel laureates who have advanced the understanding of cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging and stem cells.

Pride Values

UCSF is a diverse community made of people with many skills and talents. We seek candidates whose work experience or community service has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to professionalism, respect, integrity, diversity and excellence - also known as our PRIDE values.

In addition to our PRIDE values, UCSF is committed to equity - both in how we deliver care as well as our workforce. We are committed to building a broadly diverse community, nurturing a culture that is welcoming and supportive, and engaging diverse ideas for the provision of culturally competent education, discovery, and patient care. Additional information about UCSF is available here.

Join us to find a rewarding career contributing to improving healthcare worldwide.

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.

Salary Information

The final salary and offer components are subject to additional approvals based on UC policy.

Your placement within the salary range is dependent on a number of factors including your work experience and internal equity within this position classification at UCSF. For positions that are represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range will be guided by the rules in the collective bargaining agreement.

To learn more about the benefits of working at UCSF, including total compensation, please visit: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/compensation-and-benefits/index.html

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training.
• Minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressive/combined in healthcare finance
• Advanced knowledge of the organization's processes, protocols and procedures.
• Advanced skills in short- and long-range planning, program and project management, facilitation and collaboration.
• Sound strategic thinking and consulting skills in guiding the organization toward workable strategies and solutions.
• Proven ability to focus on priorities, strategies, and vision.
• Advanced ability to coach, facilitation and influence people at all levels.
• Advanced ability to build and maintain relationships with a broad range of staff and members of the community.
• Knowledge of common organization-specific, and other computer application programs.
• Financial analysis and reporting techniques.
• Demonstrates breadth and/or depth of professional/technical skills and capabilities required for position; shares knowledge; sets or contributes to the Company's direction within area of expertise.
• Managing Expenses, Labor productivity and Finances: Knowledge of the principle and methodology of finance management and ability to use the functions, tools and processes needed to manage financial assets and liabilities throughout the organization.
• Budget Management: Knowledge of the principles and methodology of budget management and ability to utilize the tools, techniques and procedures needed to establish and monitor budgets.
• Financial Analysis: Knowledge of tools and approaches of financial analysis; ability to read, interpret and draw accurate conclusions from financial and numerical material.
• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Knowledge of the principles and tools used in cost-benefit analysis and ability to analyze the purpose and scope of a producer, product, process, or project in terms of cost and benefits.
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling: Knowledge of processes, tools and techniques of financial forecasting and modeling; ability to explore and evaluate alternative financial scenarios and results.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree preferred.