About this role
Founded in 1906, McLeod Health is a locally owned and managed, not for profit organization supported by the strength of more than 900 members on its medical staff and more than 2,900 licensed nurses. McLeod Health is also composed of approximately 15,000 team members and more than 90 physician practices throughout its 18-county service area. With seven hospitals, McLeod Health operates three Health and Fitness Centers, a Sports Medicine and Outpatient Rehabilitation Center, Hospice and Home Health Services. The system currently has 988 licensed beds, including Hospice and Behavioral Health. The hospitals within McLeod Health include: McLeod Regional Medical Center, McLeod Health Dillon, McLeod Health Loris, McLeod Health Seacoast, McLeod Health Cheraw, McLeod Health Clarendon and McLeod Behavioral Health.
The Senior Finance Business Partner (FBP) is the key financial business partner providing consultative support for assigned McLeod operational groups creating a trusted and active partnership with both operations and finance. They spend extensive face time with executives and operational leaders to assess needs while consulting and providing real time support, financial analysis, and strategic support as trusted advisors to guide decision making. They lead Finance Department initiatives and ensure the development of consistent streamlined financial tools and analysis to be utilized across the enterprise.
Senior Finance Business Partners provide targeted strategic insights across departmental areas as well as enterprise wide. They base these insights on analysis of operational performance, industry dynamics, macro-economic trends and the competitor landscape. They are responsible for leveraging their foundational expertise in financial modeling, business planning, analysis, data visualization and exploration tools, general ledger, operational/clinical/technical workflows. They partner with operational leaders to improve facility and department level contribution to the overall system financial margin. This is accomplished by providing analysis and insight that links financial information/measures to business strategies and by developing effective procedures to ensure key operational and financial targets are delivered.
- Serves as a key financial advisor to senior leadership, delivering insights that support business growth, cost optimization, and long-term planning.
- Assist operational leaders in the annual operational and capital budgeting processes ensuring business and capital plans align with system wide financial targets and strategies.
- Participate and lead monthly financial reviews with operational leaders to understand performance drivers and collaborate on mitigation strategies to bring performance in line with key targets.
- Collaborate on complex business plans and business cases. Conduct complex analysis, including forecasting, sensitivity analysis, and scenario modeling in partnership with FBPs, operational leaders, and senior leadership.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned client groups for all financial topics by developing and maintaining trusted advisor relationships with operational leaders.
- Ability to apply the principles of independent logical, analytical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, and recommend solutions to complex problems and issues.
- Demonstrate excellent communication, interpersonal, and trust building skills inspiring confidence of customers and colleagues.
- Mentors and guides junior finance team members, sharing expertise, fostering skill development, and ensuring the team’s success.
- Perform other duties as assigned to support the needs of meeting McLeod’s mission, their assigned operational groups, and the Finance team.
Required Qualifications/Education
- Bachelor’s Degree, in Finance, Accounting, Business, Healthcare, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or related areas.
- Six years of experience in Finance, Healthcare, Analytics, or related position.
- Advanced proficiency in excel and other analysis tools.
Preferred Qualifications/Education
- Master’s degree in finance, Accounting Business, Healthcare, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or related area
- Experience within a health system, physician practice, ambulatory, or hospital setting.
- CPA, CFA, HFMA certifications