Oregon Rural Healthcare CFO Opportunities

Rural Staffing Services; Oregon (WI); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Rural Staffing Services connects experienced finance leaders with Chief Financial Officer opportunities across Oregon’s rural hospitals, clinics, and community health systems. This role emphasizes strategic leadership, budgeting, and robust financial stewardship to sustain essential services in wide geographic areas.

Opportunities range from permanent CFO positions to interim and regional leadership roles. Travel, relocation, and multi-site oversight may be required as part of the assignment,

Qualifications

• Progressive healthcare finance leadership experience.
• Experience as a CFO or senior finance leader.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, accounting, audits, reimbursement, cash management, and financial reporting.
• Experience presenting complex financial information to boards and executive teams.
• Understanding rural healthcare operations, reimbursement, workforce challenges.
• Experience with grants, federal funding, rural reimbursement, or public-sector reporting may be preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, healthcare administration, or related field.
• Master's degree, CPA, or other advanced credential may be preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership for the organization's financial functions.
• Develop budgets, forecasts, financial plans, and long-term sustainability strategies.
• Overseeing accounting, financial reporting, cash flow, audits, and internal controls.
• Support revenue cycle performance, reimbursement strategy, payer relations, and collections.
• Monitoring financial performance and communicating results to executive leadership, boards, or oversight bodies.
• Managing relationships with auditors, banks, vendors, government agencies, grantors, and external partners.
• Supporting capital planning, grants, funding initiatives, facility needs, workforce housing projects, and major investments.
• Partnering with operational and clinical leaders to improve performance and resource stewardship.
• Ensuring compliance with applicable financial, regulatory, grant, and reporting requirements.
• Supporting financial oversight across multiple facilities, clinics, or communities when required.
• Helping navigate growth, transition, turnaround, leadership change, or financial uncertainty.
• Evaluating the financial impact of workforce shortages, travel, temporary staffing, housing, equipment, and supply-chain challenges.
• Supporting reimbursement strategies involving Medicare, Medicaid, grants, and other funding sources.

Skills

Finance leadership

CFO experience

Budgeting

Forecasting

Accounting

Audits

Reimbursement

Cash management

Financial reporting

Board communication

Rural healthcare

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree / CPA preferred

Healthcare administration degree

Job description

Oregon Rural Healthcare CFO Opportunities

Help Us Build a Better Way for Rural Healthcare

This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions that align with your experience and goals.

By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you are helping us build a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, one that allows experienced financial leaders and Oregon healthcare organizations to find one another more quickly when the right need arises.

Every application helps strengthen a growing network of people who are willing to bring their experience, leadership, judgment, and heart to rural communities.

Explore Rural Healthcare Opportunities at RSSJobs.org

This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions throughout Oregon that align with your experience and goals.

Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare opportunities and communities.

Chief Financial Officer Opportunities Across Oregon

Rural Staffing Services partners with rural hospitals, clinics, public hospital districts, community health centers, regional health systems, long-term care providers, and community healthcare organizations throughout Oregon to identify experienced financial leaders who understand the unique responsibilities of rural healthcare.

We are currently connecting with healthcare finance executives who may be interested in active and upcoming Chief Financial Officer and senior financial leadership opportunities across Oregon.

These opportunities may include leadership within:

Critical Access Hospitals
Rural and community hospitals
Rural Health Clinics
Federally Qualified Health Centers
Public hospital districts
Regional health systems
Long-term care organizations
Integrated rural healthcare systems
Multi-site and regional healthcare networks

This Is More Than a CFO Role

In rural Oregon, the Chief Financial Officer is not simply responsible for financial reports and budgets.

The CFO helps protect the long-term stability of an organization that may be one of the most essential employers, economic anchors, and community resources in the region.

Healthcare finance in Oregon requires strong technical knowledge, sound judgment, adaptability, and the ability to communicate clearly with executive leaders, department managers, boards, employees, public agencies, and community partners.

The strongest rural CFOs understand that every financial decision connects directly to patient access, workforce stability, housing, transportation, infrastructure, community trust, and the organization's ability to continue serving its region.

They also understand the financial realities of delivering care across large geographic areas, supporting services in smaller communities, maintaining essential facilities and equipment, recruiting hard-to-fill positions, and operating in areas where weather, wildfire, and distance may affect staffing, supplies, and patient access.

What You May Lead

Responsibilities will vary by organization and may include:

Providing strategic and operational leadership for the organization's financial functions

Developing budgets, forecasts, financial plans, and long-term sustainability strategies

Overseeing accounting, financial reporting, cash flow, audits, and internal controls

Supporting revenue cycle performance, reimbursement strategy, payer relations, and collections

Monitoring financial performance and communicating results to executive leadership, governing boards, or other oversight bodies

Managing relationships with auditors, banks, vendors, government agencies, grantors, and external partners

Supporting capital planning, grants, funding initiatives, facility needs, workforce housing projects, and major organizational investments

Partnering with operational and clinical leaders to improve performance and resource stewardship

Ensuring compliance with applicable financial, regulatory, grant, and reporting requirements

Supporting financial oversight across multiple facilities, clinics, or communities when required

Helping the organization navigate growth, transition, turnaround, leadership change, or financial uncertainty

Evaluating the financial impact of workforce shortages, travel, temporary staffing, housing, equipment, and supply-chain challenges

Supporting reimbursement strategies involving Medicare, Medicaid, grants, and other funding sources

Helping ensure essential healthcare services remain financially sustainable and available closer to home

What You Will Bring

Qualifications will vary by opportunity, but organizations may seek:

Progressive healthcare finance leadership experience

Experience as a CFO, Vice President of Finance, Controller, Finance Director, or comparable senior leader

Strong knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, accounting, audits, reimbursement, cash management, and financial reporting

Experience presenting complex financial information clearly to boards, executive teams, department leaders, and community stakeholders

An understanding of rural healthcare operations, reimbursement, workforce challenges, and service-line sustainability

Experience with Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, Rural Health Clinics, public hospital districts, regional health systems, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations

Experience supporting multi-site organizations or services spread across significant geographic distances may be valuable

Experience with grants, federal funding, rural reimbursement, or public-sector reporting may be preferred for some opportunities

A bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, healthcare administration, or a related field

A master's degree, CPA, or other advanced credential may be preferred for some opportunities

A collaborative, transparent, practical, and relationship-focused leadership style

The ability to relocate or travel regionally when required

Specific qualifications, reporting relationships, travel expectations, and credential requirements will depend on the organization and position.

Types of Opportunities

Opportunities may include:

Permanent Chief Financial Officer positions
Interim Chief Financial Officer assignments
Vice President of Finance roles
Controller or Finance Director positions
Regional or multi-site financial leadership
Community health center financial leadership
Public hospital district financial leadership
Long-term care or senior care financial leadership
Temporary-to-permanent opportunities
Financial turnaround or stabilization assignments
Short-term executive support during a transition or vacancy

The schedule, compensation, relocation assistance, travel requirements, organizational priorities, reporting structure, and employment arrangement will be explained before you decide whether to move forward with a specific opportunity.

Why Rural Oregon?

Oregon's healthcare organizations serve communities surrounded by forests, mountains, high desert, farmland, rivers, coastal areas, and long stretches of open road.

Some communities are connected by major highways. Others are far from larger medical centers and specialty services.

These distances create financial and operational challenges that require thoughtful leadership.

The cost of staffing, transportation, housing, facilities, equipment, medical supplies, and maintaining access across rural regions can be significant. At the same time, rural healthcare organizations carry an enormous responsibility to the people and communities they serve.

Strong financial leadership helps protect emergency care, outpatient services, long-term care, behavioral health, primary care access, and other essential services that patients may otherwise have to travel long distances to receive.

Serving as a CFO in rural Oregon offers the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work, build meaningful relationships, support thoughtful growth, and help protect healthcare access for entire communities and regions.

You may help stabilize an organization, improve reimbursement, strengthen internal controls, secure funding, support workforce housing, guide capital investments, or create a financial strategy that allows essential services to remain available.

The work requires resilience, adaptability, creativity, and a genuine commitment to the organization's mission.

Join the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network

Our team personally reviews each application. When we identify an opportunity that may be a strong match, we will contact you directly to share more about the organization, community, financial priorities, relocation considerations, and next steps.

Your information will be handled professionally and confidentially.

Discover More Rural Healthcare Opportunities

Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare positions, leadership opportunities, and communities throughout Oregon.

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