Stanyan Finance Director

Socket.dev; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

UCSF Community Network seeks a Finance Director to lead operating and capital budgeting, drive financial reporting, and govern major investments across direct cost centers tied to the Community Network. You will partner with senior leadership and practice finance teams to deliver insights and scalable dashboards.

The role requires strong leadership, analytical acumen, and the ability to navigate a complex academic medical center.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field; minimum 7 years in finance/budgeting or public accounting with hospital focus
• Understanding of finance in an academic medical center environment with financial statements and volume forecasting
• Strong leadership, relationship-building, influencing and negotiation skills with cross-level collaboration
• Excellent communication skills in technical language and lay terms
• Proven ability to work independently with strong analytical judgment in a complex healthcare setting
• Experience developing and mentoring staff; self-motivated and results-oriented
• Ability to manage time constraints and meet deadlines with detailed information
• Proficiency in established financial reporting tools; EPSi desirable

Responsibilities

• Deliver operating and capital budget planning with governance for Community Network cost centers
• Collaborate with shared services to enhance reporting, ad-hoc queries, and dashboards
• Coordinate and review business line capital projects and investments
• Interpret service line reports to inform operations and strategy; present to leadership
• Manage financial performance for direct cost centers linked to a business line
• Lead major investments, ROI analysis, and prioritization for Stanyan investments
• Provide data governance and costing for annual project priorities
• Perform budgeting tasks, lead team activities, and manage staff performance

Skills

Leadership

Relationship-building

Influencing

Negotiation

Communication

Analytical-thinking

Strategic-thinking

Teamwork

Project-management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Master's or advanced degree

Tools

EPSi

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

The Finance Director, Stanyan Hospital supports the Community Network Chief Financial Officer in achieving strategic revenue growth and governance, operational analytical support to monitor resource utilization, operational action plan lead, and drive technological enhancements. Partners with operations in creating and analyzing volume budget. Works in conjunction with business unit leadership and operational partners to track performance to budget and provide recommendations and insight into course correction. Provides business case guidance and ensures goals and priorities are clearly articulated and defined and in line with organizational goals. Heavily involved in the maintenance and creation of service line assignment logic and service line related reporting. Flexible and willing to perform other projects analyses as necessary.

The Finance Director, Stanyan Hospital will be responsible for providing financial analysis and reporting in support of the UCSF Community Network. Reporting to the CFO of Community Network, this position will lead the following:

FINANCIAL PLANNING – OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET

• Delivery of business line budget and strategic leadership & governance of direct cost centers primarily associated with the Community Network business line
• Collaboration with the shared service and entity finance leaders to develop, modify, and enhance reporting, ad-hoc queries, and dashboards useful for the budgeting, planning, and financial management of operations
• Coordinating, prioritizing, and reviewing business line capital projects

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL REPORTING

• Interpret and analyze business and service line reports to inform operations and strategy and deliver financial results and board materials to leadership
• Interpret and analyze Community Network services business and service line reports to inform operations and strategy
• Financial performance management of direct cost centers heavily associated with a specific business line
• Benchmark analysis and report review for service lines and business partners to guide in action planning and budget targets

FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC INVESTMENT

• Strategic leadership and governance for major investments

COST ACCOUNTING

• Provide data and costing governance to meet business line reporting needs and to set annual project priorities
• Provide governance to meet business line reporting needs and set annual project priorities

The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership, medical center and faculty practice finance teams, decision support professionals, department managers, and outside consultants. Further, the candidate must be able to thrive and succeed in a changing environment, and not be hindered by ambiguity or competing priorities. This means the candidate is not only able to develop and drive high-level strategic initiatives but can be hands‑on and achieve the final results. The candidate will anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus other priorities. An ability to take sparse information and assist teams to successfully break down projects, initiatives and strategic priorities is expected to deliver them in a successful and timely manner. Maturity, high judgment, negotiation skills, ability to influence, analytical talent, and leadership are essential to success in this role.

The flexibility to orient and work at all UCSF Medical Center locations is required.

Responsibilities

• 30% - FINANCIAL PLANNING – OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET, 10-YEAR PLAN
  • Strategic leadership and governance of direct cost centers primarily associated with the Community Network business line
  • Set volumes and targets for business line and review with CFO and collaboration with business entities
  • Coordinate volumes and set financial revenue and expense targets and review with CFO
  • Support the budget process by reviewing and validating global assumptions, guidance and follow up on timelines, status and communication
  • Own business line investment decisions, program reduction and expansions and communication to business line leaders and the business line story
  • Review business line allocations
• 20% - FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL REPORTING
  • Interpret and analyze business and service line reports to inform operations and strategy
  • Deliver financial results and board material to leadership
  • Prepare ad hoc reporting for service lines, develop action plans and follow up
  • Responsible for financial performance management of direct cost centers heavily associated with a specific business line
  • Administration of business line specific monthly operational reviews
• 20% - FINANCIAL AND STRATEGIC INVESTMENT
  • Strategic leadership and governance for major investments
  • Accountable for analysis, ROI and presentation of end‑result
  • Guide organizational prioritization for Stanyan investments
  • Analyze impact of new initiatives and program expansion (for example destination programs)
  • Review and report on program impact
• 10% - COST ACCOUNTING
  • Provide data & costing governance to meet business line reporting needs and to set annual project priorities
  • Functional and business ownership of business line data; data governance review and sign‑off; system upgrade and testing
• 20% - GENERAL DUTIES AND OTHER
  • Provides strong leadership and guidance regarding all aspects of UCSF Health and Community Network services
  • Perform budgeting and other management‑related administrative tasks
  • Manage, plan and direct the team activities so that tasks are well planned, resources are effectively used and that team progress and status is clearly communicated within the team, or to other related teams
  • Hire, counsel, train and if necessary terminate staff. Develop and deliver performance appraisals

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or other related field
• Minimum 7 years of experience in finance/budgeting or Public Accounting with a focus on hospital clients
• Understanding of finance in an academic medical center environment: financial statements, volume-based forecasting process, and hospital‑faculty practice relationship
• Strong leadership, relationship building, influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to work effectively across all levels of management and staff
• Demonstrated ability to communicate with high proficiency, both verbally and in writing, in both technical language and layman's terms
• Must be a team player with proven ability to interact well with all levels of management and staff
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with little guidance using good analytical and political judgment in dealing with a wide variety of administrators, physicians and managers in an academic healthcare institution
• Demonstrated ability to quickly synthesize information and develop recommendation for senior leaders
• Demonstrated ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations
• Demonstrated ability to think conceptually and to formulate pragmatic and effective solutions
• Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a virtual and matrixed team environment
• Experience developing and mentoring staff
• Self‑motivated, results‑oriented, demonstrating strong initiative
• Ability to work under time constraints, meeting deadlines and schedules; setting priorities; and working with detailed information
• Computer proficiency in an established financial reporting tool; experience with EPSi or another hospital decision support software application is desirable
• Excellent Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills
• Must be flexible

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or other advanced degree

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.

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