Finance Director

Location:

Madison, WIFull-time
1.0 FTE (40 hours/week) | Day Shift | Monday-Friday | Hours 8:00 am – 4:30 pmMake a lasting impact with Agrace Join Agrace, a nationally recognized nonprofit leader in hospice and palliative care. If you are looking for a role that helps support meaningful, patient-centered care, this is your opportunity to make a difference!

How You’ll Make a Difference (Essential Functions)
The Director of Finance serves as a key strategic partner to the CFO and operational leadership team. This role leads financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, operational finance, contract evaluation, and financial systems optimization. The Director of Finance translates financial data into actionable insights that support organizational growth, operational excellence, and mission fulfillment.

Key Responsibilities Strategic Planning Partner with executive and operational leaders to develop and monitor strategic business plans including the Annual Operating Plan and Three-Year Strategic Plan.

Provide financial analysis and recommendations supporting organizational growth initiatives, new programs, partnerships, and market expansion.

Lead financial modeling for strategic investments, payer arrangements, service line development, and capital projects.

Translate complex financial information into clear, actionable recommendations for executives

Budgeting and Forecasting Directs the annual budgeting process for all legal entities;

Develops annual budget targets, supervises inputs from directors and managers and prepares projections for activity, revenue, expenses and discounts, capital budget, cash forecast and financial ratio analysis.

Assist with preparation of budget materials for the Board of Directors.

Propose and implement budgeting process improvement changes as appropriate.

Financial Analysis, Reporting and Financial Systems Collaborate with operational leaders to achieve and improve key performance indicators (KPIs)
Oversee preparation of monthly management reporting packages and executive dashboards.

Oversee the monitoring of payer mix, reimbursement trends, and operational drivers of financial performance.

Understand and communicate financial results and trends to management

Assist in preparing materials for Board of Directors.

Lead optimization of financial systems and reporting tools.

Partner with technology teams to improve data quality, reporting automation, and analytics capabilities.

Develop dashboards that support executive decision-making.

Ensure integration of financial, operational, and clinical data for comprehensive performance management.

Operational Finance and Business Partnership Serve as the primary finance business partner to operational leaders.

Support performance improvement initiatives through financial analysis and operational benchmarking.

Oversee the analysis of labor productivity, patient census trends, referral patterns, service utilization, and program profitability.

Collaborate with Operational Leaders to identify opportunities to improve financial performance while maintaining high-quality patient care.

Provide financial analysis for contracts and value-based reimbursement arrangements.

Support contract negotiations through modeling, profitability analysis, and oversite of the Contract Specialist.

Assist CFO in areas of risk management and contract management to ensure compliance.

Manage Staff Lead and develop FP&A Team, Financial Systems Analyst, and contracting resources.

Foster a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and service excellence.

Mentor finance team members and support succession planning initiatives.

Other Duties Participate in internal work groups, meetings and committees relative to position responsibilities.

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