Vice President Financial Operations

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Start the day excited to make a difference...end the day knowing you did. Come join our team. Job Summary: Position Summary: The Vice President, Financial Operations serves as a key member of the finance executive leadership team and is responsible for the strategic oversight and performance of core financial operations across the health system, including accounting, financial reporting, payroll, FP&A, decision support, and other shared financial services. This role partners closely with the CFO and executive leadership to ensure financial integrity, operational efficiency, and long-term sustainability. The Vice President drives enterprise standardization, automation, and continuous improvement in financial processes while ensuring compliance with all regulatory and reporting requirements. The role also supports strategic decision-making through accurate financial data, analytics, and insight. Essential Functions & Responsibilities: Patient Experience: Works in collaboration with the Senior Leadership team as well as the Patient Experience Team to provide an environment that focuses on a positive patient and Associate experience every time. Recognizes the importance of patient/staff safety precautions as it relates to specific departments, the organization, and areas of responsibility. Collaborates with Patient facing departments, clinicians, and medical staff on precaution utilization and supports appropriate procedures to enhance patient/staff safety in daily operations. Participates in Senior Leader Experience Rounding and all applicable reporting and follow up. - As a member of leadership, demonstrates and always supports our mission, our vision, our values, and our standard of behavior. Performance Improvement: Participates in the organization's performance improvement program and practices. Actively assists in improving performance based on results obtained from patient satisfaction/PI activities. Where appropriate, participates in Performance Improvement activities. Fosters a High Reliability and an operationally excellent philosophy. Leadership and Operational Excellence: Fosters an environment of accountability by applying consistent and fair practice in day-to-day oversight of areas of responsibility. Leads by example upholding the highest level of excellence in leadership standards and applications. Integrates organizational standards of performance into department strategies and processes. Supports all operational excellence initiatives ensuring full participation of in all in-services, training programs and following up to ascertain that leaders are applying consistent standards of practice. Executive Oversight and Operations: Oversees general ledger, financial close, consolidations, and payroll operations. Ensures alignment and consistency across all entities and subsidiaries. Leads initiatives to modernize financial operations, including ERP optimization and automation. Ensures timely and accurate financial reporting across the organization. Auditing and Policy Compliance: Maintains strong internal controls and audit readiness. Oversees external and internal audit processes. Ensures compliance with GAAP, regulatory requirements, and organizational policies. Partners with compliance leadership to ensure adherence to all applicable laws and regulations. Strategy and Growth: Partners with the CFO and executive team on strategic planning and growth initiatives. Provides financial evaluation and modeling for enterprise initiatives and investments. Supports capital planning and long-range financial strategies. Contributes to transformation initiatives aligned with system goals. Financial Oversight: Prepares in collaboration with reporting leadership, the annual departmental operating and capital budgets for respective areas of oversight within established guidelines. Assures adherence to budgetary policies. Effectively manages not only organizational resources but departmental resources within departmental budgets under areas of oversight. Monitors key departmental cost areas for containment ideas, solutions, and programs. Analyzes financial statistical reports. Recommend changes to improve financial operations. Implements necessary actions. Oversees financial reporting processes and ensures accuracy, timeliness, and transparency Partners with FP&A to enhance reporting, analytics, and decision support capabilities Develops dashboards and performance metrics to monitor financial operations Ensures responsible stewardship of organizational financial resources Human Capital: Supports all Great Place to Work initiatives to foster a highly engaged associate environment. Ensures all performance reviews, engagement plans, Associate rounding are completed. Maintains visibility as a leader attending Associate-related events. Conducts Associate rounding and supports all staff related engagement and recognition programs. Quality Assurance and Safety: Participates in all organization led quality initiatives.