VP of Financial Operations

Community Health Systems is one of the nation's leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 40 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 71 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

Summary: The Vice President of Financial Operations primary functions are to assist the Vice President of Operations and the Regional President with meeting or exceeding the yearly profit objectives for the Region, monitoring hospital capital expenditures for contract and budget compliance, working closely with the CEO and CFO of each facility during the evaluation of new services, and coordinating Regional efforts towards the hospital managed care development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Facilitate monthly close at the hospitals, ensuring all close schedules are met and all corporate accounting policy and procedures are followed.

• Facilitate hospital responses generated by Reimbursement's review of the monthly contractual packages

• Prepare for Corporate monthly operation review with the Regional President,

• Monitor hospital capital expenditures for contract and budget compliance with assistance from team members.

• Review and make recommendations to the Regional President for non-budgeted capital items and capital items above the hospital CEO approval level.

• Review CERs and maintain regions discretionary funds.

• Work closely with the hospital's CEO and CFO during the evaluation of new services, which includes reviewing the need of the proposal and the financial impact of the new service.

• Make recommendations to the Regional President on the pursuit of proposed new service lines.

• Ensure all new services have had the appropriate legal, reimbursement and accounting reviews performed prior to approval.

• Coordinate/review deal points and contracts and make appropriate recommendations to the Regional President.

• Coordinate Regional efforts in managed care development in conjunction with VP-Business Development/Managed Care

• Review all managed care contracts submitted by the hospital and the related recommendations form the VP-Bus. Dev. And make appropriate recommendations to the Regional President.

• Implement appropriate managed care tracking at each facility.

• Set the expectations for the Region's business office managers.

• Review/monitor progress in AR days, Bad Debt, past results, etc.

• Work closely with the Director of Business Operations to resolve business office issues - training workflow, collections, etc.

• Ensure that there are appropriate initiatives at each facility to address hospital specific issues - skill mix, supplies, purchased service costs, medical specialist fees, etc.

• Work closely with Internal Audit to ensure the financial integrity of the hospital's financial statements.

• Assist in implementation of Internal Audit recommendations and ensure hospital compliance with SOX guidelines.

• Review all budget packages with the CEO, CFO, and CNO of each facility - Projections. Operations Budget and Capital Budget.

• Prepare Regional President for corporate budget reviews.

• Verify the accuracy of the due diligence model prepared by Acquisitions.

• Evaluate the major deal points relative to the future financial operations.

• Verify the adequacy of reserves included in the contract.

• Coordinate all transition issues after the sale is completed - Accounting, IS, Staffing, etc

• Work with executive recruiting and other members of the Region to interview and select CFOs and ACFOs for the Region's hospitals.

• Work with compensation function and company CFO to determine hospital CFO and ACFO compensation.

• Develop the Region's CFOs by ensuring that there is adequate training and awareness of corporate policy and procedures, changes in accounting procedures, etc.

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills:

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Word Processing software; Spreadsheet software and Database software.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Certificates and Licenses:

• CPA preferred

Education/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in related field required; accounting preferred

• Masters degree preferred

• Eight (8) + years of accounting and audit experience

• Acute care hospital CFO level experience preferred

• Public accounting experience preferred

Equal Employment Opportunity

This organization does not discriminate in any way to deprive any person of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect the status of any employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, veteran status, or military or uniformed services, in accordance with all applicable governmental laws and regulations. In addition, the facility complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to: hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. If you are an applicant with a mental or physical disability who needs a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, contact the director of Human Resources at the facility to which you are seeking employment; Simply go to /chs.net/serving-communities/locations/ to obtain the main telephone number of the facility and ask for Human Resources.