Director | Financial Planning & Analysis

Love medicine is who we are, it's what we do, it's why people want to work here. If you’re looking for a job to love, apply today. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Director | Financial Planning & Analysis (enterprise) Department: Finance Reports to: VP of Finance and Accounting Position Summary: The Director of Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) will play a pivotal role in transforming the financial planning function into a strategic powerhouse that drives enterprise-wide performance and decision-making. This leader will be responsible for building and scaling a FP&A Center of Excellence (COE), delivering proactive, data-driven insights that empower senior leadership to make informed, agile decisions in a dynamic healthcare environment. This role goes beyond traditional budgeting and forecasting. It is about reimagining how financial planning supports operational excellence, strategic growth, and resource optimization. The Director will lead the development of integrated planning processes that align financial, strategic, and operational goals, enabling the organization to anticipate opportunities, mitigate risks, and accelerate value creation. The Director will oversee the creation of three FP&A COEs, each led by a manager, to ensure consistent, standardized, and high-quality financial support across the enterprise. These teams will serve as trusted partners to service line and functional leaders, including Chief Nursing Officers and other key stakeholders, providing actionable insights, performance benchmarking, and scenario modeling. This leader will also be responsible for enhancing the organization’s financial planning infrastructure--streamlining manual processes, implementing scalable tools, and embedding financial acumen into decision-making frameworks. The role requires a strong blend of strategic thinking, operational execution, and people leadership, with a focus on building high-performing teams and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Essential Job Duties: Lead the FP&A Center of Excellence: Build and manage a high-performing team that sets the standard for analytical rigor, innovation, and best practices. Strategic Financial Planning: Oversee long-range planning, budgeting, and forecasting processes. Align financial and operational plans with enterprise strategy. Decision Support & Insights: Deliver proactive, high-quality financial insights to senior leaders. Support initiatives such as profitability improvement, investment prioritization, and M&A. Process & System Optimization: Standardize and automate financial processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. Performance Monitoring: Establish KPIs, track leading indicators, and identify performance gaps. Drive action plans to close gaps and improve outcomes. Collaboration & Integration: Partner with Finance Business Partners and operational leaders to ensure financial strategies support business success. Productivity & Benchmarking: Collaborate with cost accounting and optimization teams to drive productivity and benchmarking initiatives. Leadership & Culture: Foster a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and collaboration across the FP&A team and broader organization. Minimum Qualifications: Education: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field. Experience: 10 years' experience in health care, accounting or related field, as well experience with financial planning processes. Core Competencies for All Leaders: Organizational Strategy and Implementation: Recognizes market trends, judges the impact on their area of responsibility, contributes to responsive strategic plans, develops operational plans, and ensures alignment and commitment of all staff. Fiscal Management: Effectively uses established processes to ensure accountability for effective operations and resource management. Human Resource Management: Selects, aligns, develops, motivates, manages, and retains a team of highly skilled employees. Excellence in Service and Quality: Achieves seamless delivery of quality patient care, safety, excellence in patient experience, and customer service. Utilizes Continuous Quality Improvement principles and platform planning in decisions, improvements, and system design. Organizational Leadership: Provides leadership and accomplishes objectives by ensuring the integration of processes and initiatives while modeling collaboration. Participates and supports in brand/service delivery teams as requested. Compliance: Maintains accountability for implementation of requirements of regulatory agencies. Serves as liaison to the community. Why Emplify? Tailored Benefits Package: We offer a comprehensive benefits package that varies based on your location. To learn more about the specific benefits available in your area, please inquire with the recruiter during the application process. Remote Work Opportunity: This position is eligible for hybrid work. However, candidates must be residents of Wisconsin (WI), Iowa (IA), or Minnesota (MN) at the time of hire. Candidates will ideally live within a reasonable driving distance to La Crosse or Green Bay, WI. This is not a fully remote position and will require on-site needs. This is more than a finance role—it’s a chance to transform how we plan, decide, and lead. You’ll be at the forefront of building three FP&A Centers of Excellence, delivering consistent and strategic financial support to leaders across the enterprise. If you're energized by innovation, collaboration, and impact, we want to hear from you. If you need assistance with any portion of the application or have questions about the position, please contact HR-Recruitment@gundersenhealth.org or call 608-775-0267. We inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating. This is our purpose. Together with our values — belonging, respect, excellence, accountability, teamwork and humility — our pillars set our foundation and our future. Equal Opportunity Employer Around here, loving your job is part of the job. Join our mission in changing healthcare while finding a career you'll love! Gundersen Health System offers a proud, local history spanning more than 100 years. Our personalized patient care model is only the beginning of what you will experience as we foster population health transformation and innovation to serve our communities and you. We've made it a priority to enrich the lives of our employees as they find a career they love. Using each employee’s unique talents and passions, Gundersen is committed to delivering exceptional patient and family-centered care to the communities we serve. You can be part of an exciting, highly adaptable and mission-driven organization with a work environment that supports you personally and professionally and a work culture where you are valued and appreciated offering an employee-first culture, work-life balance, and career advancement & growth opportunities. This culture allows our organization to attract elite talent, like yourself! What You Can Expect: Empowerment to shape your work environment, encouragement to improve processes and create efficiencies, and support when seeking opportunities for growth Culture that encourages self-care and provides you with opportunities to be your best self at work and at home Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages, as applicable, ensuring your comfort and well-being as a valuable team member Support for your career growth through Professional Development Opportunities, our Tuition Investment Program, Career Development Center, and online continuing education courses Inside our walls and our neighborhoods, we deliver world-class medical care and the right amount of love. We call it LOVE MEDICINE and it’s more than our practice. It is who we are. Gundersen Health System, based in La Crosse, WI, is the leading provider of primary and specialized care in western Wisconsin, southeast Minnesota, and northeast Iowa; serving more than 500,000 residents throughout 22 counties. Our physician-led, not-for-profit healthcare system includes a 325-bed teaching hospital, tertiary referral center, and Level II Trauma Center; community clinics; 6 affiliate critical access hospitals; nursing homes; behavioral health services; vision centers; pharmacies; and air and ground ambulance services. Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning, and innovating. We deliver Love Medicine every day to change lives in our communities and enrich the lives of our employees. Select Remote/Hybrid Eligible under More search to see our remote-eligible openings. A rewarding career and an excellent quality of life awaits you. 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