Senior Director, Healthcare Decision Support & Financial Performance Advisory

Huron Consulting Group Inc.; Houston (TX); Remote; USD 250,000 - 423,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

401(k) with employer match

Paid time off and parental leave

Job summary

Huron Consulting Group is seeking a Senior Director to lead Healthcare Decision Support and Financial Performance Advisory engagements for health systems and academic medical centers. You will drive decision support, analytics, and performance-improvement initiatives with CFOs and enterprise analytics teams.

The role combines healthcare financial expertise, strategic advisory, and client leadership to deliver measurable value, across multi-disciplinary teams, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of consulting, healthcare finance, decision support, analytics, or performance-improvement experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale healthcare transformation initiatives, complex engagements, or equivalent enterprise programs.
• Demonstrated success advising C-suite executives and senior finance, operational, and analytics leaders.
• Deep understanding of healthcare provider finance, operations, decision support, and performance management.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage engagement economics, and develop client relationships.
• Ability to travel based on client and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Serve as an executive advisor to healthcare CFOs and senior leaders.
• Lead assessments of finance, decision support, analytics, reporting, profitability, and performance management capabilities.
• Develop enterprise performance-improvement roadmaps aligned with strategy, goals, and measurable value.
• Facilitate executive workshops and present findings and business cases to senior leadership and boards.
• Lead initiatives on margin improvement, cost reduction, service-line profitability, labor productivity, and budgeting.
• Design performance-management frameworks, KPI definitions, and governance models.
• Advise on enterprise decision support strategies, operating models, and capability roadmaps.
• Create dashboards and management reporting connecting financial, operational, and strategic measures.
• Partner with data/tech teams to modernize analytics, ERP, and cloud data solutions.

Skills

12+ years consulting experience

5+ years leading large-scale health-

C-suite advisory experience

Healthcare finance know-how

Team leadership & engagement mgmt

Willingness to travel up to 80%

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, healthcare administration, analytics

MBA / MHA / MPH / CPA or related advanced degree preferred

Tools

ERP

EPM

Cloud data platform transformations

Job description

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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.

Huron's Healthcare Financial Advisory Practice continues to expand its team to support clients' Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) capabilities. Huron is seeking a Senior Director to lead Healthcare Decision Support and Financial Performance Advisory engagements for health systems, academic medical centers, physician groups, and integrated delivery networks. This leader will help healthcare organizations strengthen decision-making capabilities, modernize performance management, improve financial performance, and translate enterprise data into sustainable operational and financial outcomes.

The Senior Director serves as a trusted advisor to CFOs, finance executives, operational leaders, and enterprise analytics teams. The role combines healthcare financial expertise, strategic advisory, performance improvement, decision support, digital transformation, and client relationship leadership to deliver measurable value.

ROLE AT A GLANCE

• Executive Advisory: C-suite counsel and transformation leadership
• Financial Performance: Margin, profitability, planning, and productivity
• Decision Support: Analytics, reporting, governance, and insight
• Engagement Leadership: Delivery quality, economics, risk, and outcomes
• Growth: Client relationships, proposals, and market development
• People Leadership: Team development, coaching, and practice building

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Leadership & Advisory

• Serve as an executive advisor to healthcare CFOs, finance leaders, strategy executives, and operational stakeholders.
• Lead assessments of finance, decision support, analytics, reporting, profitability, and performance management capabilities.
• Develop enterprise performance-improvement roadmaps aligned with organizational strategy, financial goals, and measurable value.
• Facilitate executive workshops and present findings, recommendations, and business cases to senior leadership and boards.

Financial Performance Transformation

• Lead initiatives focused on margin improvement, cost reduction, service-line profitability, labor productivity, expense management, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic investment analysis.
• Design performance-management frameworks, management reporting, KPI definitions, and governance models.
• Help clients improve financial visibility and establish disciplined processes that sustain results.

Decision Support & Analytics

• Advise clients on enterprise decision support strategies, operating models, and capability roadmaps.
• Design executive dashboards and management reporting that connect financial, operational, and strategic measures.
• Lead profitability analytics across service lines, physicians, patients, and payers.
• Establish data governance, reporting standards, metric definitions, and performance-measurement processes.
• Partner with data and technology teams to modernize analytics, EPM, ERP, and cloud-enabled data solutions.
• Translate complex analysis into clear executive insights and actionable business recommendations.

LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS

Program & Engagement Leadership

• Direct multiple complex consulting engagements and enterprise transformation programs.
• Manage engagement scope, economics, staffing, quality, risk, executive communications, and client satisfaction.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning finance, analytics, technology, implementation, and performance improvement.
• Create clear accountability for outcomes and ensure delivery excellence from assessment through implementation and adoption.

Business Development & Market Leadership

• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with current and prospective clients.
• Identify client needs and shape differentiated solutions that integrate advisory, data, technology, and implementation capabilities.
• Lead proposal development, executive presentations, solution design, and strategic pursuits.
• Contribute to thought leadership, offering development, alliances, and market-facing activities.
• Support account growth, cross-practice collaboration, and achievement of practice revenue goals.

People & Practice Leadership

• Recruit, mentor, coach, and develop consulting managers, directors, and engagement teams.
• Build high-performing teams grounded in collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and client service excellence.
• Advance reusable methods, tools, intellectual capital, and delivery standards across the practice.
• Demonstrate Huron leadership behaviors and actively support the professional growth of colleagues.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Experience

• 12+ years of consulting, healthcare finance, decision support, analytics, or performance-improvement experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale healthcare transformation initiatives, complex engagements, or equivalent enterprise programs.
• Demonstrated success advising C-suite executives and senior finance, operational, and analytics leaders.
• Deep understanding of healthcare provider finance, operations, decision support, and performance management.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage engagement economics, and develop client relationships.
• Ability to travel based on client and business needs.

Preferred Expertise

• Healthcare decision support, cost accounting, service-line profitability, and patient-level analytics.
• Financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and enterprise performance management.
• Labor productivity, operational performance improvement, expense management, and margin transformation.
• Healthcare analytics, data strategy, data governance, and reporting modernization.
• ERP, EPM, decision support, and cloud data platform transformations.
• Revenue cycle, payer, physician, clinical, or supply-chain analytics.

Education & Credentials

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, healthcare administration, analytics, or a related field required.
• MBA, MHA, MPH, CPA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional credential preferred.

Travel & Home Location

• Travel requirements vary by project, and candidates must be willing to travel weekly as needed up to 80% (Monday - Thursday)
• Candidates may live anywhere in the contiguous 48 states near a major airport

SUCCESS PROFILE

The successful candidate is a strategic healthcare finance and analytics leader who connects enterprise strategy, financial performance, operational improvement, data, and technology into actionable transformation programs. This leader is equally credible in the boardroom, with finance and operational executives, and alongside analytics and technology teams, helping clients convert data into insight and insight into measurable value.

Core Leadership Characteristics

• Trusted Advisor: Builds credibility and guides executive decisions.
• Outcome Oriented: Connects recommendations to measurable performance.
• Enterprise Thinker: Integrates strategy, finance, operations, data, and technology.
• Commercial Leader: Shapes opportunities and grows enduring relationships.
• Team Builder: Develops talent and mobilizes multidisciplinary teams.
• Clear Communicator: Makes complex issues accessible and actionable

The estimated base salary for this job is $250,000 - $325,000. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $325,000 - $422,500. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

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At Huron, we’re redefining what a consulting organization can be. We go beyond advice to deliver results that last. We inherit our client’s challenges as if they were our own. We help them transform for the future. We advocate. We make a difference. And we intelligently, passionately, relentlessly do great work…together.

Are you the kind of person who stands ready to jump in, roll up your sleeves and transform ideas into action? Then come discover Huron.

Whether you have years of experience or come right out of college, we invite you to explore our many opportunities. Find out how you can use your talents and develop your skills to make an impact immediately. Learn about how our culture and values provide you with the kind of environment that invites new ideas and innovation. Come see how we collaborate with each other in a culture of learning, coaching, diversity and inclusion. And hear about our unwavering commitment to make a difference in partnership with our clients, shareholders, communities and colleagues.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements.

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.