Associate Vice President, Finance

Summary Responsible for directing financial operations of assigned Market(s), including supporting market senior and department leadership with overall financial accountability in achieving approved budget targets.

Associate Vice President, Finance (Paducah, KY)

As a member of the market senior leadership team, the Associate Vice President is responsible for directing financial strategy and operations of assigned Market(s), including supporting market senior with overall financial strategy and performance.

Leads market financial and operational performance management processes, including accountability review meetings with senior operating and finance leadership, Monthly Operating Advance (MOA) meetings, management reporting activities, month-end reviews, variance documentation, and collaboration with the System Performance Advisory Office (PAO) to drive achievement of financial, labor, throughput, service line, and cost reduction targets.

Directs market governance and resource optimization initiatives, including discretionary spend, position control, and capital review and approval processes, while leading special projects and ad hoc assignments in support of regional finance and operational objectives.

Provides strategic financial leadership for the market by leading the development of rolling forecasts, long-range financial plans, and capital projections; partnering with market leadership to establish key operational and financial assumptions; and collaborating with the System Strategic Financial Planning team to align market priorities, growth initiatives, and investment strategies with overall system objectives.

Leads compilation of annual operating and capital budgets, including working with market leadership to develop key volume assumptions, revenue rate assumptions, expense inflation assumptions, labor targets and other budget initiatives.

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, Analytics, Business or related field 7 years of experience Additional Healthcare experience in public accounting, accounting, budgeting, financial may be substituted in lieu of Bachelors degree Preferred Requirement CPA preferred, healthcare experience preferred Director level or above experience is preferred

• Tuition Assistance reimbursement program
• Company paid Maternity and Paternity leave
• Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
• Paid Time Off available upon hire
• Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement plans with company match

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves.

The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing…