Manager Financial Planning and Analysis

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health•Lebanon, NH

About The Position

The Manager Financial Planning and Analysis facilitates projects supporting Dartmouth-Hitchcock—including Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Clinics, and Shared Services—and the Dartmouth Health System. The role promotes collaboration among Finance professionals, operational management, and organizational leaders. It manages the finance team responsible for identifying and assessing financial performance trends and integrating findings into financial plans, reports, and presentations for executive leadership. The position supports the development of Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s annual budget, forecasts, and long-range plan, including support for Dartmouth Health. It manages the Financial Planning & Analysis department and provides coaching, advice, and consultative support to strengthen financial acumen, collaborative and trusting relationships, and service excellence across the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or a related field.
Five years of financial planning and analysis experience.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and ability to learn and adapt to various reporting tools.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to translate and present complex financial data understandably.
Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work both in a team environment and independently.
Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Team-oriented approach, strong communication and coordination, relationship-building, active participation, and engagement.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Finance or Business Administration (MBA).
Experience with a health care system, including an academic medical center.

Responsibilities

Manage a team that builds reliable business decision support and communicates analyses effectively.
Interview, hire, assign, guide, and counsel subordinate staff; conduct performance evaluations and staff meetings; recommend personnel actions; maintain staff development plans; and establish performance standards.
Advocate for continued success, implement best practices, and recommend and implement process improvements.
Identify and ensure adherence to industry standards, compliance requirements, and best practices.
Manage and coordinate analytical support and business analysis for DHMC, Clinics, and Shared Services, building effective partnerships between FP&A and operational leaders.
Understand Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s financial performance and collaboratively develop accurate financial projections that reflect operating and capital impacts.
Support and guide management across the system in assessing the impact of programs and services on forecasts, operating budgets, capital budgets, and the five-year plan.
Identify improvement opportunities, make recommendations, and present findings to operational management and finance leadership.
Lead analysis of Dartmouth-Hitchcock financial results and support the development and maintenance of tools for compiling, analyzing, and interpreting monthly system financial results and variances from plan.
Integrate insights from Finance leads to create a holistic view of system financial performance.
Develop or oversee and evaluate financial impact models for innovative programs and services.
Promote financial stewardship and value-based care, providing educational presentations as needed.
Provide consistent, high-quality financial support, training, and education to Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth Health finance, operating, and administrative leadership.
Work with staff to create a structure for reliable business decision support and effective communication of analyses.
Work with the Analytics Institute and Finance Systems to improve availability of actionable core-volume metrics linked to financial, operational, and clinical data.
Support procedures for acquiring, compiling, and reporting accurate routine operating, statistical, and financial reports.
Implement reporting protocols so all levels of management receive and understand relevant data in a timely manner.
Gather input, test assumptions, and review findings with staff throughout Dartmouth-Hitchcock and the Dartmouth Health system.
Ensure affected parties are represented in appropriate project discussions and decisions.
Promote understanding among team members of each project’s financial and organizational impact.
Coordinate project activities efficiently to achieve accurate and timely completion.
Perform other duties as required or assigned.