Chief Financial Officer, California Pacific Medical Center

Sutter Health•San Francisco, CA

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About The Position

As Chief Financial Officer (CFO), California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) the incumbent will provide financial leadership and direction to the management and leadership teams, physicians, and CPMC staff with a key focus on driving affordability to meet long term goals. Achieving transformational change is critical to the organizations long term success. The position serves as CPMC's financial innovation leader with the goal of transforming the structure and operations of the organization. The finance functions are performed at the system level, the area level, and the entity level. System Level Finance functions include reimbursement, treasury, quarterly reporting to bondholders, audit coordination, tax return preparation, managed care contracting, reporting to Sutter Health management and the Sutter Health board. Area Level Finance functions include overall responsibility for all Finance and Accounting functions, financial statement preparation, general accounting, accounts payable, payroll, statistical reporting, budget preparation, reporting to the system, reporting to management, and reporting to the Board. Entity Level Finance functions include operational improvements, financial forecasts, feasibility studies and other financial analysis. Management of CPMC operational units as defined.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, or Accounting or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required; Master’s or CPA preferred.
Seasoned experience as would normally be expected from a minimum of ten years combined health care financial management and operational improvement experience including multi-entity, managed care and an integrated health care delivery environment is required
Experience in providing analytic support and maintaining cost-effective and long-term financial viability of health care operations
Prior experience in demonstrating effective communication skills and interpersonal relation skills is required.
Prior experience developing and managing staff in the current competitive health care environment
Must have a thorough knowledge of a multi-entity integrated health care delivery system.
Extensive knowledge of the dynamics of health care financial relationships, to include physicians/facilities in a tax-exempt environment; managed care environment, including capitation; private inurement laws; anti-trust laws; Medicare fraud and abuse laws
Must have a thorough understanding of GAAP and process costing in a health care environment
In-depth working knowledge of health care departments emphasizing an understanding of finance, planning, physician relations, and a strong working knowledge of patient care and human resources
Must have the skills, confidence and ability to lead the effort to transform and restructure the organization to optimize operational and financial success
This position serves a key leadership role in the operations and as such requires that the incumbent engenders a high level of trust, credibility, and confidence among superiors, peers and staff from all areas of operation
This position requires superior analytical, leadership, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
The incumbent must be innovative and creative in designing, developing, and monitoring financial systems and programs.
Requires strong microcomputer modeling skills, ability to query, download, and manipulate financial and statistical information from computer systems.
In addition, the position requires an incumbent who employs tact and discretion and is motivated, self-directed, confident and a self-starter