Director of FP&A and Strategic Finance

We are 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. This role serves as a key business partner to ownership, the CEO, and operational leadership, helping create financial visibility, reporting consistency, and actionable insights that support organizational growth, operational excellence, and profitability.

Strategic Finance Leadership

• 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.

Budgeting, Forecasting & FP&A

• 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.

Data Analytics & Reporting

• 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.

Revenue Cycle & Operational Finance

• 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.

Leadership & Team Development

• 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.

Systems, Processes & Controls

• 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.

Required Qualifications

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.