Manager - Finance

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

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Job Highlights:

This high‑visibility opportunity is ideal for a finance leader who thrives at the intersection of analytics, strategy, and executive collaboration. You’ll lead meaningful work—from advanced financial modeling to productivity transformation—while guiding a talented team and influencing decisions that impact thousands across our ministries.

If you’re energized by solving complex challenges, partnering with senior leaders, and elevating financial performance at scale, this role offers a rare opportunity to make a measurable difference.

Preferred qualifications:

• Advanced degree preferred (MBA, Finance, Accounting, Healthcare).
• 7 years of progressive FP&A or financial leadership experience, ideally in healthcare or multi‑site operations.
• Proven experience with budgeting and forecasting, including annual budget cycles and multi‑year financial planning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams and partner directly with senior executives across multiple locations.
• Strong analytical and presentation skills, including month‑end reporting, variance analysis, and executive communication.
• Experience supporting major financial initiatives (e.g., productivity, NOI improvement, service line profitability) and working with tools like Vizient ODB.
• Familiarity with data governance processes (cost centers, statistics, UOS) and deep‑dive operational analyses (CMI, LOS, compensation, supply variances).
• Ability to thrive in a high‑visibility, fast‑paced, multi‑hospital environment.

Ideal candidate:

• Supported multiple departments or service lines at once
• Partnered directly with senior leaders (VP, Director, Executive)
• Owned forecasting cycles, variance explanations, and leadership-ready reporting
• Been trusted with visibility and escalation, not shielded from it

Job Summary:

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Performs major role in financial analytics and/or financial statement preparation. Reviews technical areas.
• Reviews, analyzes and ensures the accuracy of the financial and statistical reports for presentation to management.
• Responsible for management functions including activities related to staffing such as recruitment, hiring, performance evaluation, and compensation determination.
• Conducts special financial studies and projections and develops recommendations for financial decision making.
• Designs, develops and modifies financial models through use of appropriate databases; manages special projects  as assigned, including research, forecasting and exploring viable alternatives.
• Presents proactive ideas about creating operational efficiencies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree

EXPERIENCE

• Five years’ experience and demonstrated progressive leadership responsibility.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS 

• None

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Benefits:

SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs.

• Paid Parental Leave: we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). 

• Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday.

• Upfront Tuition Coverage: we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. 

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