Director Finance Clinical Support Services

Overview

Everyone who works with Mercy Health is united under one purpose: to help our patients be well in mind, body and spirit. This drive, along with our history of faith, is a powerful combination. It gives us a shared calling to work toward every day. Join our exceptional team and help us continue to provide the highest quality of health care possible to our communities.

Director Finance Clinical Support Services | REMOTE

The Director Clinical Support Services serves as the enterprise financial leader for Pharmacy and Laboratory services, providing strategic financial leadership that aligns clinical operations with system-wide financial performance and sustainability. The role functions as a trusted advisor to clinical and operational leaders, ensuring informed decision-making through disciplined financial stewardship, enterprise perspective, and proactive partnership across the health system.

Essential Job Functions

• Serve as the primary financial leader and strategic advisor for Pharmacy and Laboratory services, aligning clinical operations with system financial performance and long-term sustainability.
• Partner with clinical, operational, and administrative leaders to support strategic planning, resource allocation, and enterprise decision-making for ancillary services.
• Provide financial oversight for Pharmacy services across acute, ambulatory/340B, and retail environments, including budgeting, forecasting, business planning, and financial performance monitoring.
• Provide financial oversight for Laboratory services, including evaluation of financial feasibility, volume and utilization trends, reimbursement considerations, and long-term sustainability of clinical initiatives.
• Lead financial analysis and modeling for new, expanded, or restructured Pharmacy and Laboratory programs, ensuring disciplined evaluation of return on investment and operational impact.
• Support development and execution of cost optimization, utilization management, and margin improvement strategies in collaboration with clinical leadership.
• Oversee financial management of Pharmacy and Laboratory shared services, including assessment of staffing, operating costs, and system-level initiatives impacting shared operations.
• Establish and maintain standardized processes to track clinical and operational initiatives, financial outcomes, and performance metrics across ancillary services.
• Monitor key clinical and operational drivers that impact financial performance and proactively identify risks, variances, and opportunities for corrective action.
• Prepare and present clear, actionable financial insights, performance updates, and risk assessments to executive and senior leadership.
• Ensure financial practices, analyses, and recommendations are aligned with health system policies, governance expectations, and strategic priorities.
• Lead, mentor, and develop finance team members as applicable, fostering strong business acumen, accountability, and effective partnership with clinical stakeholders.

This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job-related duties as required by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.

• Certification such as CPA, HFMA CHFP/CFHP, or similar credential (preferred)

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Healthcare Administration, Business, or related field (required).
• Master’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Healthcare Administration, Business, or related field (preferred).

• 7+ years’ progressive experience in healthcare financial operations, preferably within Pharmacy, Laboratory, or other clinical ancillary areas (required)
• Demonstrated understanding of healthcare financial models, cost accounting, and service-line economics (required)
• Demonstrated proficiency in Excel for financial analysis and enterprise financial systems (e.g., Workday, Adaptive, Power BI) (required)
• Direct leadership experience (required)
• Prior experience working within a multi-hospital or integrated health system (preferred)
• Familiarity with reimbursement…