Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis

Overview

UVA Health, an expansive and integrated health system, is realigning its financial service delivery model and creating the Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis role to provide focused leadership in centralizing and streamlining core financial operations. This role supports a multi-year effort to modernize financial management, including the implementation of Workday Finance, to drive efficiency, reduce redundancies, and build scalable processes for long-term growth and savings across all health system entities.

Reporting to UVA Health's Chief Financial Officer, this leader will guide the integration of finance functions, strengthen shared services, and advance systemwide initiatives that enable unified, data-driven financial operations across UVA Health. The role joins UVA Health at a time of significant growth and expansion in Virginia; financial planning and efficiency are primary focus areas.

The Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis will serve as a strategic partner to executive leadership and leaders across UVA Health. The role oversees financial operations and shared services initiatives that drive operational excellence, accuracy, compliance, and fiscal sustainability. This executive will lead a team responsible for centralized back-office functions for all health system entities, including University Medical Center, Community Health, UVA Physicians Group, the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library.

Centralized functions include financial planning and analysis, financial reporting, decision support, cost accounting, health system finance policy, intercompany activity, and other areas, while partnering across clinical and administrative divisions to implement strategic initiatives, system improvements, and process efficiencies. The Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis ensures that finance and shared services are strategically aligned to institutional priorities, optimizing resources and advancing UVA Healths capabilities in both long-term strategy and arising needs in response to internal, external, and industry-wide dynamics.

The Chief will lead a team of dedicated professionals to shape the future of financial planning and analysis as UVA Health embarks on an ambitious 10-year plan. Key areas of responsibility include:

• Strategic Planning & Financial Leadership:
  Lead large-scale financial and operational initiatives aligned with organizational goals and serve as Finance Lead for ERP Transformation.

• Align and integrate corporate finance functions across all entities to reduce redundancy in overhead and enable comprehensive assessment of health system impact across medical centers and provider groups.

• Lead a long-range financial planning process, including systemwide capital planning, allocation and management, ensuring alignment with UVA Health's strategic plan and major capital investment priorities.

• Provide quarterly board reporting and routine updates to executive leadership and other stakeholders, highlighting performance and outcomes.

• Evaluate and develop business cases for major financial, operational, and shared services initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and return on investment.

• Translate complex data into clear insights that inform strategic decision-making.

• Operational Excellence:
  Provide guidance and oversight in collaboration with accounting, payroll, accounts payable, treasury, and other shared service functions to strengthen accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in core financial processes.

• Champion process improvements, automation, and system modernizations that improve accuracy and timeliness of financial reporting and service delivery.

• Sponsor and manage mission-critical, high-profile projects, ensuring timely execution and measurable impact.

• Oversee performance standards and service-level agreements within shared services, ensuring consistent, high-quality support to clinical and administrative teams.

• Lead efforts to integrate financial and shared services systems (e.g., ERP, clinical platforms) to improve data consistency, workflow efficiency, and reporting accuracy.

• Identify and implement opportunities to reduce costs, eliminate redundancies, and enhance customer service across shared services.

• Stakeholder Engagement &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Coordinate involvement of cross-functional leaders, external consultants, and project teams to ensure alignment on financial and shared services initiatives.

• Lead implementations, including process design, testing, training, rollout, and optimization across financial and shared service platforms.

• Gather stakeholder feedback, analyze results, and embed lessons learned into future programs.

• Serve as a champion of financial operational excellence and promote a culture of continuous improvement, encouraging adoption of standard tools, methodologies, and best practices across UVA Health that evolve with…