Director, Strategic Finance

Job Details

The Director of Strategic Finance is a senior leader responsible for shaping and executing the financial strategy for Jefferson Health Plans (JHP). This role serves as a key advisor to enterprise leadership and plays a central part in driving financial performance, supporting strategic initiatives, and advancing long term organizational goals. The Director partners extensively with internal leaders, industry associations, and external stakeholders to strengthen JHP's financial position, promote operational excellence, and ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.

Job Description

Summary
The Director of Strategic Finance is a senior leader responsible for shaping and executing the financial strategy for Jefferson Health Plans (JHP). This role serves as a key advisor to enterprise leadership and plays a central part in driving financial performance, supporting strategic initiatives, and advancing long term organizational goals. The Director partners extensively with internal leaders, industry associations, and external stakeholders to strengthen JHP's financial position, promote operational excellence, and ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.

Job Duties

• Provide leadership for Strategic Finance functions, including MCAP/Stewardship and VSOT governance, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and strong vendor oversight.
• Maintain impactful executive-level relationships across internal leaders, industry associations, and strategic partners to advance enterprise financial priorities.
• Collaborate with Population Health, Contracting, and ELT leaders to accelerate Value-Based Care strategies and initiatives that improve enterprise value and financial performance.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to identify, assess, and drive strategic ventures and enterprise initiatives.
• Lead strategic planning in partnership with Strategy, FP&A, and HCE, leveraging data science, predictive analytics, and financial modeling to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-term financial planning.
• Drive enterprise-wide expense optimization, resource stewardship, governance, and compliance in collaboration with the Controller and Director of FP&A
• Ensure operational excellence within the Strategic Finance function, including talent development, process improvement, and adherence to regulatory and performance requirements.
• Coordinate with the enterprise ERM team and oversee maintenance and documentation of the Health Plan ORSA.
• Lead the assessment and development of Strategic Finance talent needs, building a high-performing team through thoughtful evaluation of current capabilities, strategic hiring, and alignment of existing roles to support evolving organizational priorities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, or a related discipline.
• 10 years of progressive experience in healthcare financial analytics or strategic finance. and
• 7 years of leadership experience managing teams and using analytics to inform enterprise-level decision-making.
• Extensive experience leading complex financial, actuarial, or strategic functions within a health plan or healthcare enterprise.
• ASA (Associate of the Society of Actuaries), in good standing or CPA - Certified Public Accountant - State of Pennsylvania
• Licenses with restrictions may be evaluated for role relevance

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 15 years of healthcare financial analytics experience.

Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift

Workday Day (United States of America)

Worker Sub Type

Regular

Employee Entity

Health Partners Plans, Inc.

Primary Location Address

1101 Market, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nationally ranked, Jefferson, which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region, Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey, is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65,000 people strong, dedicated to providing the highest-quality, compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrow's professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic, clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University, home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Jefferson College of Nursing, and the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce, dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8,300 students. Jefferson Health, nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas, serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits

Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.

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