Senior Director, System Decision Support

Overview

Leads Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Financial Planning & Analysis and Cost Accounting Teams, including providing support for the Dartmouth Health System, as an expert at the intersection of data analysis, business intelligence and strategic consulting through formal reports, financial plans and presentation for executive leadership. Promotes a collaborative relationship with Executive, Operational and Finance professionals across the Dartmouth Health System and acts as liaison to system member Finance teams.

The Senior Director provides insights that are data-driven to advance decision-making within Dartmouth Health and clarifies complex business issues to recommend solutions using excellent critical thinking skills. Supports the Vice President of FP&A by providing direct and indirect communications, including presentations, meeting attendance, fostering excellent collaboration, building customer relationships and cultivating clinical and business partnerships. The Senior Director will evolve, develop and demonstrate superior skills in providing scenario based modeling through financial analytics and messaging.

Aims to blend technical expertise, clinical knowledge and analytical skills to improve outcomes, optimize processes and drive business growth. The Senior Director should demonstrate an ability to generate new ideas and lead a team to effectively develop analytic solutions to advance the organization’s mission and strategic goals all while fostering a culture of trust.

This position will be 80% onsite with flexibility for remote time.

• Leads, develops, and manages the financial analysis and cost accounting teams to offer a strong financial acumen platform set on a foundation of data integrity. Sets high performance expectations and helps the team to achieve them. Helps coordinate cross-functional teams, including assigning tasks, monitoring progress, and resolving conflicts to ensure seamless execution. Anticipates, proactively mitigates, and helps resolve project issues (e.g. scope, delayed deliverables, team dynamics).
  
  Creates a positive team culture that promotes excellence and collaboration. Creates an energizing, high functioning work environment. Responsible for the planning, directing and overseeing the operations and fiscal health of the department. Responsible for identification and adherence regarding industry standards, compliance and best practice.
• Is responsible for the Health System cost accounting system through management of the costing team and provides education of the data to internal and external customers on the appropriate utilization and interpretation of the results.
• Leads the annual budget, forecast and strategic planning processes for Dartmouth Health.
• Understands and evaluates the financial performance of the Dartmouth Health system and collaboratively develops accurate financial projections reflecting both operating and capital impacts of services. Takes the lead with management to determine the impact of programs and services on forecasts, operating budgets, capital budgets, and the long-range strategic plan. Identifies opportunities for improvement and makes recommendations. Summarizes and presents findings to leadership.
• Provides consistent, high quality financial support, with a strong emphasis on training and education, to Dartmouth Health and Dartmouth-Hitchcock finance, operating and administrative leadership. Working with staff, creates a structure which builds reliable financial business decision support for the organization, including effective partnerships and communications. Viewed by others as possessing expertise. Exemplifies a mastery of expertise in the formation and execution of work across a variety of topic areas.
  
  Appropriately utilizes and advises subordinate team to provide decision support for the Health System.
• Develops and maintains tools to compile, analyze, and interpret monthly system financial results and variances from plan, integrating insights from all Finance leads to create a holistic view of the system’s financial performance. Develops and evaluates financial impact models for innovative programs and services.…