Financial Planning and Analysis - Finance Program Manager

Job Title & Specialty Area:  Financial Planning and Analysis - Finance Program Manager 

Department:  Finance 

Location: Texas

Job Type: Remote

Why Children's Health?

At Children's Health, our mission is to Make Life Better for Children, and we recognize that their health plays a crucial role in achieving this goal.

Through our cutting-edge treatments and affiliation with UT Southwestern, we strive to deliver an extraordinary patient and family experience, ensuring that every moment, big or small, contributes to their overall well-being.

Our dedication to promoting children's health extends beyond our organization and encompasses the broader community. Together, we can make a significant difference in the lives of children and contribute to a brighter and healthier future for all.

Summary:
This position provides consulting and financial expertise to department leaders and others in understanding financial issues and in developing operational plans to achieve short and long term enterprise-wide organizational financial goals. Leverages unique expertise to identify and drive change related to key indicators of sound financial, strategic, and operational planning, resulting in economic growth and service excellence. This position is responsible for developing meaningful relationships with multiple operational leaders to drive financial performance. Responsibilities include the development, distribution and discussion of financial metrics, reports and analyses; providing financial expertise for the creation and monitoring of the budget/financial forecast; and creating financial impact assessments related to and in support of operational decision making. Teaches, coaches, and mentors operational leaders in financial concepts to achieve enterprise financial goals. Provides leadership to members across the organization through shared commitment to Children's mission, values and strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Fosters meaningful relationships with Operational Leaders with the goal of achieving financial performance expectations.
• Leverages excellent communication skills to serve as a change agent, understanding and articulating underlying goals and benefits, working through challenging situations, creating a shared sense of purpose and collaboration with operational leaders.
• Communicates difficult concepts and, when necessary, negotiates with others to develop shared goals.
• Innovates and brings ideas to the forefront to inform financial goals.
• Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy as well as part of a team. Understands team dynamics and peer’s character strengths. Leverages understanding to share information, collaborate and elevate self and team’s work.
• Teaches and mentors operational leaders about financial reports and how to find supporting detail. Educates in financial methodologies to raise financial acumen throughout the organization and sustain positive financial progress.
• Develops and implements standard reporting and communication processes with operational leaders and their teams.
• Ability to extract, organize and analyze large data sets and distill into executive-level summaries. Build sophisticated financial models to determine financial impacts and guide decision making.
• Analyze significant financial metrics, display innovation and initiative to proactively identify key drivers and trends and investigate to understand root causes.
• Provide consulting and financial expertise to department heads in understanding financial variances and in developing operational/remediation plans.

How You’ll Be Successful:

WORK EXPERIENCE

• At least 5 years financial planning experience required 

EDUCATION

• Four-year Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
• Graduate or professional work or advanced degree; or equivalent experience preferred 

A Place Where You Belong

We put our people first. We welcome, value, and respect the beliefs, identities and experiences of our patients and colleagues. We are committed to delivering culturally effective care, creating meaningful partnerships in the communities we serve, and equipping and developing our team members to make Children’s Health a place where everyone can contribute.

 Holistic Benefits – How We’ll Care for You:

· Employee portion of medical plan premiums are covered after 3 years.

· 4%-10% employee savings plan match based on tenure

· Paid Parental Leave (up to 12 weeks)

· Caregiver Leave

· Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement 

As an equal opportunity employer, Children's Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, age, national origin, veteran or military status, disability, or genetic information or any other Federal or State legally-protected status or class. This applies to all aspects of the employer-employee relationship including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer pay, training, discipline, workforce adjustments, termination, employee benefits, and any other employment-related activity.