Manager, Finance Site Liaison (Controller)

We are seeking an experienced healthcare finance leader with recent hospital Controller, Finance Director, or Assistant CFO experience supporting complex acute care hospital operations. The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a highly visible role, leading accounting process improvements, partnering with hospital leadership, and independently managing the financial close and reporting functions for a large, complex health system.

 

Your experience matters

At Lifepoint Health, we are committed to empowering and supporting a diverse and determined workforce who can drive quality, scalability, and significant impact across our hospitals and communities. As a member of the Lifepoint Business Services (LBS) team, you’ll support those that are in our facilities who are interfacing and providing care to our patients and community members to positively impact our mission of making communities healthier ®.

 

More about our team

The Lifepoint Business Services (LBS) Finance team provides strategic accounting and operational support to hospitals and entities across the organization. We partner closely with site leadership, technical accounting, and operations teams to ensure accuracy, transparency, and consistency in all financial processes. Our collaborative, detail-oriented culture emphasizes integrity, proactive communication, and continuous improvement.

 

How you’ll contribute

A Finance Site Liaison Manager who excels in this role:

• Manages the end-to-end general ledger close process for designated sites and entities, ensuring completeness of close checklists and timely post-close review and analysis.
• Supports continuous improvement and accounting standardization initiatives across the organization.
• Performs P&L and balance sheet analysis, providing insightful commentary and variance explanations.
• Collaborates with hospital leadership to support post-close analysis, review, and reporting, including participation in hospital MORs and other operational reviews.
• Serves as the primary accounting liaison for assigned facilities during the close process.
• Interfaces with the LBS Technical Accounting team and hospital operations leaders to address complex accounting treatments and issues.
• Oversees the joint venture accounting, reporting, and distribution process for facilities with joint venture arrangements.
• Supports annual budgeting processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Ensures internal controls are adequate to safeguard facility assets and maintain the integrity of accounting systems.
• Leads post-close review processes and periodic balance sheet reviews to ensure accurate and compliant financial reporting.
• Provides analysis and explanations for monthly, quarterly, and annual variances in general ledger accounts.
• Serves as liaison with external stakeholders to provide required financial reports and information.
• Maintains regular and reliable attendance and performs other duties as assigned.
  
   

What we’re looking for

Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. Additional qualifications include:

• 7+ years of progressive healthcare finance/accounting experience, including recent hospital-based accounting leadership experience. Acute care hospital experience strongly preferred.

• Experience supporting complex, multi-facility healthcare systems, integrated delivery networks, or large hospital operations preferred.

• This position requires an experienced healthcare finance leader capable of operating independently in a high-visibility environment with minimal onboarding and oversight.

• Proven ability to partner directly with hospital CEOs, COOs, department directors, and operational leadership teams to drive financial performance and process improvement.

• Demonstrated success leading accounting process improvements, standardization initiatives, close optimization efforts, and change management within healthcare organizations.

• Expertise in P&L and balance sheet analysis, revenue valuation, and month-end close processes.

• Proven ability to manage reconciliations, journal entries, and post-close reporting.

• Strong understanding of revenue recognition, project and capital accounting, and other key accounting processes.

• Experience with Oracle, EPM, and financial reporting tools; familiarity with RCA and revenue accounting preferred.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

 

Why join us 

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

 

 

Salary range: $89,937-$124,563 per year. 

 

EEOC Statement

Lifepoint Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Lifepoint Health is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

 

Employment Sponsorship Statement

You must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

 

Pay Transparency Notice (Washington State)

If you believe this job posting does not include accurate or complete pay information in accordance with the Washington State Equal Pay and Opportunities Act, please inform us immediately.  You can contact us at 833-271-4269 to report the issue.  For more information on your rights under Washington’s pay transparency laws, visit the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries website at: https://lni.wa.gov

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.
We employ and provide care to people from all walks of life. We are committed to promoting healing, providing hope, preserving dignity and producing value with an inclusive workforce in which diversity is leveraged, respected, and reflective of the patients, family members, customers and team members we serve.