Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis

Overview

UVA Health is realigning its financial service delivery model and creating the Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis role to provide centralized leadership for core financial operations across the organization. The role supports a multi-year effort to modernize financial management, including the implementation of Workday Finance, and aims to drive efficiency, reduce redundancies, and build scalable processes that support long-term growth and savings across all health system entities.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, this executive will guide the integration of finance functions, strengthen shared services, and advance systemwide initiatives that enable unified, transparent, and data-driven financial operations across UVA Health. The position joins UVA Health amid significant growth and expansion across Virginia, with financial planning and efficiency as 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, overseeing financial operations and shared services 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 role ensures finance and shared services are strategically aligned to institutional priorities, optimizing resources, and advancing UVA Health’s capabilities in long-term strategy and responding to internal, external, and industry-wide dynamics.

The Chief of Financial Operations, Planning, and Analysis will lead a team of dedicated professionals to shape the future of financial planning and analysis during UVA Health s 10-year plan. Key areas of responsibility include:

• 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.

• 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…