Director of Financial Planning & Analytics (SLC)
About The Position
Headlight is a mental healthcare company transforming how people access care and how clinicians deliver it. They are looking for a Director of Financial Planning & Analytics to own the systems, models, and processes that power financial decision-making. This role will focus on forecasting and analytics to drive revenue visibility, budgeting, and long-range planning for a growing behavioral health organization. The position is ideally hybrid in Salt Lake City, but remote candidates with the right experience are also considered. This is a senior individual contributor role, not a people management position, focused on building the analytical infrastructure, developing scalable models, and planning frameworks. The role requires working at the intersection of finance, billing operations, and data to build essential forecasting capabilities for a scaling healthcare company. Success depends on identifying and resolving issues in data quality, billing processes, or systems, and driving cross-functional solutions. The ideal candidate understands how finance, operations, and data integrate in healthcare and has experience building planning capabilities from the ground up. The role offers significant influence over shaping processes in a dynamic environment.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in financial planning, strategic finance, or financial analytics – ideally in healthcare, MSO, or a complex multi-site services environment.
- Deep expertise building forecasting models for revenue, operating expenses, and long-range planning.
- Strong understanding of healthcare revenue cycle economics – reimbursement, payer contracts, and AR dynamics.
- Demonstrated ability to identify root causes behind forecasting or planning challenges and drive improvements to business processes, systems, or data quality.
- Proven success influencing cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority to implement operational or analytical change.
- Advanced Excel proficiency
- SQL experience preferred or strong willingness to learn.
- Self-directed and comfortable operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with provider productivity metrics is a plus.
- Experience with modern planning or BI tools (Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Pigment, Power BI, Tableau, or similar) preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own the company's forecasting methodology across revenue, reimbursement, and long-range planning – partnering closely with our Sales & Operations Planning function on provider productivity.
- Improve, build, and evolve driver-based financial models that support executive decision-making, budgeting, scenario analysis, and growth planning.
- Continuously identify gaps in data, systems, and billing processes that limit forecasting accuracy or scalability, and drive cross-functional efforts to resolve them.
- Influence stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Billing, and Clinical to implement process improvements, strengthen data quality, and improve the inputs that power planning.
- Lead the evolution of financial reporting from manual, spreadsheet-driven workflows toward scalable, repeatable processes and modern planning tools.
- Partner with billing and operations teams to operationalize financial models and build reporting infrastructure that reflects how the business actually works.
- Establish governance, documentation, and feedback loops that measure forecast performance, identify variance root causes, and drive continuous improvement.
- Support investor reporting, board materials, and fundraising with clear, well-supported financial narratives.
- Own the annual budget, forecast, and long-range planning cycle end-to-end.
Benefits
- W2 role with competitive compensation
- Medical, Dental and Vision on the first of the month after employment
- Paid Vacation, Sick, and Holiday time
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) provides confidential counseling services, resources, and support to help you navigate personal or professional challenges.
- 401(k) plan with company contribution
- Hybrid work schedule
- Opportunity to work in a cutting-edge healthcare technology environment
- Professional development opportunities and training
- Collaborative and supportive work culture
- Impactful role contributing to the enhancement of patient care and healthcare processes
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
