Region Director Finance

Mountain Region Support; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health in Centennial, CO seeks a Region Director of Finance to serve as a senior financial strategist for hospitals and clinics. You will oversee monthly closes, budgeting, forecasting, and capital planning, partnering with executives to align financial health with mission and patient care goals.

You'll mentor finance teams, standardize reporting, and present trends to the executive board, ensuring fiscal excellence across facilities nationwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or related field.
• Master's degree or equivalent education and experience.
• 10 years of finance, accounting, or decision support experience; healthcare preferred.
• 5+ years in leadership.
• Strong communication and analytical abilities.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and data modeling.
• Experience with Oracle Financials and financial planning tools.
• Understanding of healthcare revenue cycle and KPIs.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly variance analysis and budgeting processes.
• Partner with executives to translate goals into financial plans.
• Develop pro forma for strategic initiatives.
• Standardize reporting with CFO and oversee month-end processes.
• Present financial trends to boards and leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Communication

Excel proficiency

Education

Bachelor Degree

Master Degree or equivalent

MBA

Tools

Oracle Financials

Forecasting software

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Region Director Finance, you will serve as a high-level financial strategist and a core member of the leadership team, providing critical oversight for the daily financial operations of our hospitals, emergency centers, and community clinics. You will act as a primary advisor to facility leadership, bridging the gap between complex financial data and actionable business strategy to drive organizational sustainability. By leveraging your expertise in capital planning, labor management, and forecasting, you will ensure our financial health aligns with the mission of CommonSpirit Health, ultimately supporting the resources necessary to deliver exceptional patient care.

Every day you will manage the complexities of regional financial performance, ranging from conducting month-end and quarterly close analyses to spearheading annual budgeting processes. You will collaborate with department directors to monitor productivity, analyze variances in patient charges and supply utilization, and provide the financial modeling required for strategic business cases. Whether you are standardizing reporting procedures with the facility CFO, mentoring finance team members, or presenting complex financial trends to executive boards, your analytical rigor will be instrumental in identifying operational improvements and maintaining fiscal excellence across our diverse facilities.

To be successful in this role, you will bring a strategic mindset and the ability to partner with executive leadership to translate complex business goals into tangible results. You possess a strong analytical background, with the ability to leverage financial systems and data modeling to provide actionable insights for diverse stakeholders. Your ability to work independently, navigate high-pressure environments, and propose entrepreneurial solutions makes you the ideal partner to lead our regional financial strategy toward a sustainable future.

• Directs the monthly variance analysis for departmental leaders to review overall financial performance, including, but not limited to, volume analysis, patient charges, labor productivity, supply utilization, and other expenses.
• Collaborates throughout the year with department directors and other hospital leadership to understand and manage to their budgets, performs budgeting and forecasting, and drives cost reduction and operational improvements.
• Supports the development and preparation of the annual operational, strategic, and capital financial budget.
• Assists with pro forma development for business cases required by leaders across the hospital, including larger strategic initiatives as well as smaller department restructuring, OR business cases, etc.
• Plays a leadership role in numerous reporting needs to the hospital executive team, local boards, as well as other requests (group, system, sponsor, community, etc.) for CommonSpirit Health.
• Work with the facility CFO and other financial personnel to standardize month-end reporting and operating procedures that affect their department's workflow; may cover some CFO duties when the CFO is out of the office.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelor Degree
• Master Degree OR equivalent education and experience.
• Ten (10) years of experience Finance, Accounting, or Decision Support. Strong preference for healthcare experience.
• Five (5) years in a Leadership position.
• Extensive experience partnering with executive business leaders and providing a holistic view of business strategy, processes and financial objectives.
• Excellent communication and managerial abilities with the ability to present complex information to a wide array of audiences with different levels of financial understanding.
• In-depth operational understanding of revenue cycle operations and/or payor community.
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, pivot table, report building skills.
• Experience with Oracle Financialor comparable planning technologies.
• Proven ability to perform complex financial analysis, modeling and reporting.
• In-depth expertise of healthcare financial models and key operational indicators.

Preferred

• Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Board level experience is a plus.

Where You'll Work

With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.