Field Finance Partner

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A Brief Overview

Field Finance Partner

Step into an impactful role at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), one of the nation's leading pediatric healthcare systems. As a Field Finance Partner, you will serve as a strategic financial advisor and collaborative partner to the Nursing and Clinical Care Services (NCCS) leadership team. As part of a centralized finance team, you will work closely with NCCS to plan, support, and execute all financial activities.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence senior leaders by providing financial expertise that supports informed decision-making, drives best-in-class performance, and strengthens a high-impact team at a world-class institution.

Why This Role Is Exciting

• High Visibility, High Impact: Play a pivotal role in advising and supporting Nursing leadership at every level-from Unit Leaders to the Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer-on decisions that shape the organization's financial performance.
• Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with clinical, operational, and finance leaders across CHOP, ensuring alignment and driving meaningful outcomes.
• Mission-Driven Work: Contribute to CHOP's world-class mission of delivering exceptional care to children and families, making a tangible difference every day.

What You Bring

• Comprehensive Expertise: Strong background in financial planning, analytics, labor productivity, and budgeting within a hospital setting, ideally with exposure to clinical operations.
• Passion for Improvement: Enthusiasm for operational excellence, data-driven insights, and strategic leadership.
• Customer-Centric Approach: Proven ability to deliver solutions with a strong focus on service and collaboration.
• Core Values: A deep commitment to integrity, quality, teamwork, and organizational impact.

Work Environment & Flexibility

• Remote-Friendly: Primarily remote (Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.) to support work-life balance.
• Collaborative Touchpoints: Quarterly onsite meetings at CHOP to connect, plan, and innovate with Finance and operational teams.
• Occasional Onsite Engagement: Preferred for fostering collaboration and supporting operational needs.

What you will do

• Support operating budget, performance management, and variance reporting processes for multiple business units.

• Provide proactive financial guidance to business unit leadership using business intelligence, data, and advanced analytical tools.

• Analyze and support development of base budget assumptions, including volume, gross revenue, expense inflation, cost-savings initiatives, and new programs.

• Partner with leaders to identify key volume and variance drivers, assess risk areas, and achieve operating targets.

• Actively participate in month-end close, including accrual support, trend analysis, root-cause analysis, and monitoring of key financial metrics.

• Summarize and present financial findings to Senior Finance Partners for review with executive leadership.

• Guide development and monitoring of remediation and corrective action plans for material budget variances.

• Support labor and non-labor benchmarking and cost management initiatives.

• Participate in client-based meetings to gain exposure across the organization.

• Support Corporate Finance training related to operating budgets, capital budgets, variance reporting, service line reporting, and finance systems.

• Coordinate financial inputs to develop forecasts, financial plans, and "what-if" scenario analyses aligned with business unit strategic objectives.

• Evaluate the financial impact of business decisions using analytical and strategic thinking.

• Participate in retrospective financial reviews of approved business plans.

• Support business unit vice presidents with capital budget requests and development of business cases.

• Coordinate and maintain capital spending projections across business units.

• Prepare financial updates for enterprise planning, including refreshes to the Enterprise 7-Year Plan.

• Leverage financial data and advanced analytics to support leadership decision-making.

• Support Financial Planning and Analytics teams in advancing accurate cost accounting methodologies, including RVU development and indirect cost allocations.

• Promote service line reporting to assess profitability, improve costing processes, and inform operational and strategic decision-making.

• Contribute business unit expertise to enterprise cost accounting methodologies.

• Participate in development and enhancement of financial tools, models, visualizations, and predictive analytics to support enterprise-wide reporting.

• Guide business unit leaders in understanding and adhering to finance policies, procedures, and GAAP standards.

• Support adoption and best-practice use of financial and supply chain systems and tools.

• Participate in enterprise and business unit performance improvement initiatives to enhance financial and operational outcomes.

• Contribute to Finance department improvement projects, including system design, implementation, and stabilization efforts.

• Serve as a liaison between business units and Corporate Finance functions (e.g., Purchasing, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Supply Chain, Revenue Cycle).

• Participate in or lead special projects and committees supporting finance or operational initiatives.

• Educate staff on financial concepts and contribute to development of financial management training materials.

• Develop and maintain strong business partner relationships across the CHOP enterprise.

• Respond to stakeholders in a timely, collaborative, and service-oriented manner.

• Share financial expertise to support effective financial management practices.

• Deliver financial, operational, and strategic insights to business units.

• Foster an open, communicative environment that encourages innovation and continuous process improvement.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Master's Degree Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• At least seven (7) years of finance related experience Required

Skills and Abilities

• ERP Payroll, Accounts Payable, General Ledger and Supply Chain modules, Workforce Analytics, EPIC, Microsoft products, Business Objects, Allscripts or other Budget and FDS platforms, Qlikview applications.
• Experience with accounting concepts, variable and rolling budget processes, labor analytics, service line profitability, financial and forecasting concepts
• Knowledge of integrated and automated financial systems
• Demonstrate strong communication skills, able to prioritize work, and take initiative when necessary
• Demonstrates ability to diagnose complex business finance issues and to recommend areas for process improvement or innovation
• Exhibits ability to work on concurrent initiatives and activities with a reasonable degree of autonomy.

Licenses and Certifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Pennsylvania State Licensing Board - upon hire - Preferred or
• Certified Management Accountant (CMA) - Institute for Management Accountants (IMA) - upon hire - Preferred

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SALARY RANGE:

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