Director, Physician Finance and Analytics

Alameda Health System • Oakland, CA

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About The Position

The Director, Physician Finance & Analytics is a senior strategic finance leader responsible for advancing Alameda Health System’s physician financial performance, workforce strategy, and clinical business analytics. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, with a dotted-line relationship to the Chief Medical Officer/Chief Physician Executive, the Director advises executive, physician, and operational leaders by translating complex physician, clinical, operational, and financial data into actionable strategies.

The Director leads physician financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and analytics. The role evaluates physician productivity, compensation, workforce utilization, service-line economics, contracted services, and resource allocation, and identifies opportunities to improve productivity, access, revenue, cost efficiency, and financial sustainability. Recommendations must align with regulatory, compliance, fair-market-value, and organizational requirements.

In partnership with executive and physician leadership, the Director evaluates services and programs, develops business cases and financial models, assesses strategic investments and workforce alternatives, and provides recommendations on growth, expansion, redesign, insourcing, outsourcing, and optimization of physician services. The Director also leads executive dashboards, performance reporting, and long-range financial analyses to strengthen transparency, accountability, and data-driven decisions across the physician enterprise and clinical operations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• Seven years of experience working with health care information.
• Experience with physician compensation models, Medicare payment models, and financial or billing healthcare data, including ICD-10, CPT, and DRG.
• Experience in project management, consulting, or decision support.
• Experience developing business plans.
• Experience analyzing data within relational database systems and using tools such as Excel and Pivot Tables.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration.
• MBA.
• CPA.

Responsibilities

• Serves as a strategic advisor to executive and physician leadership, translating financial and operational information into business recommendations and executive presentations concerning resource allocation, physician strategy, service-line growth, and organizational sustainability.
• Oversees physician financial performance, including productivity, wRVUs, FTE utilization, compensation, specialty benchmarking, staffing models, physician contracts, coverage arrangements, and physician service-line economics.
• Identifies opportunities to optimize physician workforce investments and improve productivity, access, operational effectiveness, and financial sustainability.
• Directs executive-level financial reporting, dashboards, and performance analytics covering financial performance, productivity, revenue, expenses, utilization, and strategic initiatives.
• Leads physician annual budgets, forecasts, and financial performance plans; aligns resources with strategic priorities; interprets results; and recommends corrective actions when performance deviates from plan.
• Identifies and leads enterprise opportunities for revenue enhancement, cost optimization, productivity improvement, and resource utilization.
• Develops data-driven recommendations and leads cross-functional teams involving Finance, physician leadership, clinical operations, Revenue Cycle, Human Resources, contracting, Legal, Compliance, and other stakeholders; facilitates alignment and translates opportunities into measurable results.
• Evaluates new and existing service lines and programs, including business plans, pro formas, and volume and capacity analyses; identifies risks and recommends investment, expansion, redesign, insourcing, outsourcing, or discontinuation.
• Supports strategic business development and programmatic opportunity assessments for the AHS long-range strategic plan in partnership with Strategy, physician leaders, executives, operational leaders, and internal and external stakeholders.
• Performs other organizational duties as assigned by executive leadership.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director