Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis
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JOB SUMMARY
The Senior Director, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will play a key leadership role within the Corporate Finance organization, overseeing the FP&A team and partnering with senior leaders to strengthen enterprise planning, forecasting, and performance management. The ideal candidate combines deep financial expertise, strong business acumen, disciplined organizational skills, knowledge of financial analysis tools and techniques, and exceptional communication skills. This leader must be able to develop a highly engaged team, operate effectively in a rapidly growing and complex environment, and help guide the company toward its long-term business objectives.
Reporting to the Group CFO, Enterprise and Corporate, this role leads the enterprise FP&A function and partners closely with Accounting, Operations, Corporate Finance, Business Intelligence, and other key stakeholders.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Establish the governance framework and execution strategy for the enterprise FP&A organization.
- Partner across company functions, including Operations, Development, and Corporate Finance, to align on business performance, monthly results, forecasts, and risks and opportunities.
- Lead all aspects of the annual budgeting process, including target setting, coordination, consolidation, analysis, and executive presentations.
- Lead high-priority ad hoc projects and analyses of key business issues, providing senior leadership with actionable insights that support timely decisions.
- Leverage available and newly developed systems data to create management reporting for assigned business lines and/or the enterprise.
- Maintain and enhance internal financial planning and reporting tools to create a highly efficient and effective FP&A function.
- Collaborate with business intelligence to create real time actionable analysis
- Create and maintain management reports for monthly, quarterly, and annual analysis containing profitability analysis, segment metrics, and capital utilization analysis.
- Understand and effectively communicate cost drivers in the organization.
- Presents financial and operational results to senior management on a regular and ad-hoc basis, including trends and competitive analysis giving full insight into the Company’s P&L.
- Prepare presentations and provide critical input into senior management discussions and strategy planning
- Development of business intelligence presentations for disbursing data to management in visual format
- Lead compilation, consolidation rollup, and analysis of annual budgets and forecasts
- Set the direction for driving efficiencies across all areas within the enterprise FP&A organization
- Create a diverse and inclusive environment
- Act as a talent steward for employees, including identifying and developing staff, educating and empowering, and assessing opportunities to realign work and team structure to ensure optimal efficiency and productivity.
- Lead financial innovation and change.
- Performs other duties as assigned
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, including significant responsibility for budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial analysis; experience in both public accounting and private industry is preferred.
- 5+ years of experience managing staff
- Accounting, M&A and/or finance background preferred
- Advanced experience with use of Excel required
- Experience leading a department or functional area
- Advanced financial modeling skills required, including sophisticated use of Excel, pivot tables, data-query tools, and other contemporary modeling techniques; experience with automation tools, including macros and SQL, is preferred.
- Experience using Business Intelligence tools (i.e. Tableau, SAP, Power BI, etc.)
- Experience with consolidation and financial systems also required
- Demonstrated background in creating/improving processes and process management
- Hands-on leadership style with a proven ability to drive results
- Demonstrated ability to advise business leaders, define complex business problems, and develop decision-support analyses related to financial performance, business planning, strategic opportunities, and business cases.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively articulate an issue or point of view to a varied audience both verbally and in writing
- Strong communication skills including demonstrated ability to interact with senior management and influence outcomes across all levels of the organization
- Ability to meet rigorous deadlines of a growth-oriented company; ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities, coordinate and manage multiple commitments simultaneously
- Solid values and high standards of ethics, integrity, and trust
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders across multiple functions and levels of the company.
- Experience diagnosing, isolating, and resolving complex issues and recommending and implementing strategies to resolve problems
- Demonstrated ability to analyze and define business problems in order to prepare decision-support analysis on a range of issues related to financial performance, business planning, strategic opportunities, and business case analysis
- Experience in healthcare, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and joint ventures preferred.
- Demonstrated executive presence, including the ability to communicate credibly, influence senior leaders, and represent the FP&A function in high-stakes discussions.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field required; MBA or CPA highly preferred.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Deep Financial Planning & Analysis Capabilities: The successful candidate must possess significant FP&A experience, including the ability to develop and maintain a comprehensive financial projection model.
- Problem Solving & Analytical Orientation: Uses excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to track, analyze, interpret, and report key historical and projected operating metrics, trends, and financial results. Can take a deep dive into business details while maintaining focus on the broader strategic picture.
- Results Oriented: Thinks strategically and executes tactically, integrating technical, creative, business, and communication skills to deliver results.
- Effective Communication and Decision Making: Conveys important messages clearly and persuasively, makes timely decisions when circumstances require a rapid response, and demonstrates outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Health Savings Account with an employer contribution
- Life Insurance
- PTO
- 401(k) retirement plan with a company match
- And more!
Equal Employment Opportunity & Work Force Diversity
Our organization is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, creed, sex, religion, marital status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, parental status, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic testing results or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. This practice relates to all personnel matters such as compensation, benefits, training, promotions, transfers, layoffs, etc. Furthermore, our organization is committed to going beyond the legal requirements of equal employment opportunity to take positive actions which ensure diversity in the workplace and result in a multi-cultural organization.
Surgery Partners conducts pre-employment screenings including but not limited to criminal background checks and drug testing.
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