VP - Financial Planning, Analytics and Decision Support - FT - Days - MHS

Memorial Healthcare

About The Position

The Vice President - Financial Planning, Analytics and Decision Support is a senior finance leader within Memorial Healthcare System, responsible for enterprise FP&A, Cost Accounting, and Business Intelligence departments. The role reports directly to the system CFO and provides financial leadership and decision support to service line leadership, while overseeing Financial Reporting to align management, operations, and strategic initiatives. The position leads system-wide budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range financial planning across service lines and facilities; oversees internal management and external/statutory reporting; and guides financial and operational analytics, dashboards, and scorecards. The VP partners with service line, physician, executive, and IT leaders to support strategic decisions, financial data governance, business cases, capital allocation, and reporting accuracy. The role also builds and leads finance and analytics teams, supports audits and regulatory filings, and drives automation of reporting and forecasting processes.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
Ten or more years of progressive healthcare finance experience.
Five years of BI and FP&A leadership experience.
Critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Ability to work in a stressful environment and take appropriate action.
Demonstrated ability to analyze and communicate complex financial concepts to management and the board.

Nice To Haves

MBA or CPA.
Multi-hospital or multi-entity health system experience.

Responsibilities

Support business cases for service line growth, physician recruitment, co-management, and joint venture arrangements.
Present financial performance and recommendations to the CFO and executive leadership.
Partner with IT to ensure integrity and governance of financial and clinical-financial data.
Serve as a dedicated finance business partner to assigned service line and physician leaders.
Build, mentor, and lead a team of FP&A analysts, BI/reporting analysts, and service line finance partners.
Build financial models and business cases for new service development and capital investments.
Ensure alignment between Cost Accounting, BI/FP&A-driven reporting, and public financial statements and reports.
Lead system-wide budgeting, monthly forecasting, and long-range financial planning across service lines and facilities.
Act as the primary financial liaison between service line operations and the System CFO.
Lead development of KPIs spanning volume, margin, cost, and reimbursement trends.
Deliver monthly financial performance reviews, including margin analysis and cost drivers.
Serve on the System Finance leadership team and contribute to financial strategy and capital allocation.
Own the roadmap for financial and operational dashboards, service line scorecards, and self-service analytics.
Analyze variances in volume, payer mix, reimbursement, and labor and supply costs to inform projections.
Standardize planning methodology and templates to enable comparability across service lines and entities.
Oversee the accuracy and timeliness of internal management reporting and external/statutory financial reporting.
Support external audits, Board Finance Committee reporting, and regulatory filings.
Drive automation of reporting and forecasting processes to improve the speed and accuracy of insight.