Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Confidential is a behavioral healthcare company seeking a strategic and operationally focused finance leader to drive financial planning, forecasting, operational analytics, budgeting, and executive decision support across the organization. The Director of FP&A and Strategic Finance will serve as a key business partner to ownership and leadership, creating financial visibility and actionable insights that support growth and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic financial advisor to ownership, executive leadership, and operational leaders
• Lead financial planning and analysis efforts across multiple sites, programs, and service lines
• Develop financial models and operational analyses to support new programs, acquisitions, expansions, and strategic initiatives
• Identify opportunities to improve profitability, labor efficiency, operational performance, and cash flow
• Provide executive-level insights and recommendations based on financial and operational trends
• Lead the annual budgeting process across all entities, locations, and service lines
• Develop rolling forecasts, scenario planning models, and variance analyses
• Create scalable forecasting processes and financial planning tools
• Monitor and report on key operational and financial performance indicators including census, labor utilization, reimbursement, staffing ratios, and profitability
• Drive accountability and consistency in forecasting and budget management across departments
• Establish standardized financial and operational reporting definitions across the organization
• Develop executive dashboards, KPI scorecards, and recurring reporting packages for leadership
• Improve data accuracy, reporting consistency, and financial visibility across the organization
• Partner cross-functionally with operations, billing, HR, and clinical leadership to ensure reliable reporting and actionable insights
• Analyze trends related to census, staffing, labor costs, reimbursement, and site performance
• Partner with revenue cycle and billing teams to improve collections, reduce denials, and optimize reimbursement performance
• Analyze payer reimbursement trends, contract performance, and service line profitability
• Support strategic financial analysis related to payer negotiations and reimbursement opportunities
• Provide strategic direction and financial leadership to accounting and finance team members
• Partner closely with the Controller to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, accounting operations, and internal controls
• Lead through influence while building accountability, operational discipline, and scalable financial processes
• Simplify complex financial data into actionable information for operational and executive leaders
• Lead finance-related process improvement and automation initiatives
• Improve financial systems, reporting tools, and data accessibility
• Develop scalable reporting structures and internal controls to support organizational growth
• Support ERP optimization and reporting enhancements

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field
• 7+ years of progressive leadership experience in FP&A, operational finance, strategic finance, or healthcare finance
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, KPI reporting, and operational analytics
• Healthcare experience required; behavioral health or multi-site healthcare experience strongly preferred
• Advanced Excel and ERP/reporting systems experience required
• Strong executive presence and ability to communicate financial insights to non-financial leaders
• Behavioral health, residential treatment, PRTF, RTF, PHP, autism services, or multi-site healthcare experience
• Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, or rapid organizational growth
• MBA, FP&A leadership, healthcare analytics, or strategic finance experience strongly preferred
• CPA not required

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