Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lifepoint Health is a community-based healthcare organization focused on making communities healthier through its hospitals and care sites. The Controller, Finance Site Liaison manages financial close and reporting functions for designated healthcare facilities, partners with hospital leadership, and leads accounting process improvements, analysis, budgeting, and reporting activities.
Responsibilities
- Manages the end-to-end general ledger close process for designated sites and entities, ensuring completeness of close checklists and timely post-close review and analysis
- Supports continuous improvement and accounting standardization initiatives across the organization
- Performs P&L and balance sheet analysis, providing insightful commentary and variance explanations
- Collaborates with hospital leadership to support post-close analysis, review, and reporting, including participation in hospital MORs and other operational reviews
- Serves as the primary accounting liaison for assigned facilities during the close process
- Interfaces with the LBS Technical Accounting team and hospital operations leaders to address complex accounting treatments and issues
- Oversees the joint venture accounting, reporting, and distribution process for facilities with joint venture arrangements
- Supports annual budgeting processes, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with organizational goals
- Ensures internal controls are adequate to safeguard facility assets and maintain the integrity of accounting systems
- Leads post-close review processes and periodic balance sheet reviews to ensure accurate and compliant financial reporting
- Provides analysis and explanations for monthly, quarterly, and annual variances in general ledger accounts
- Serves as liaison with external stakeholders to provide required financial reports and information
- Maintains regular and reliable attendance and performs other duties as assigned
Skills
- Applicants should have a bachelor's degree in accounting or finance
- 7+ years of progressive healthcare finance/accounting experience, including recent hospital-based accounting leadership experience
- This position requires an experienced healthcare finance leader capable of operating independently in a high-visibility environment with minimal onboarding and oversight
- Proven ability to partner directly with hospital CEOs, COOs, department directors, and operational leadership teams to drive financial performance and process improvement
- Demonstrated success leading accounting process improvements, standardization initiatives, close optimization efforts, and change management within healthcare organizations
- Expertise in P&L and balance sheet analysis, revenue valuation, and month-end close processes
- Proven ability to manage reconciliations, journal entries, and post-close reporting
- Strong understanding of revenue recognition, project and capital accounting, and other key accounting processes
- Experience with Oracle, EPM, and financial reporting tools
- Acute care hospital experience strongly preferred
- Experience supporting complex, multi-facility healthcare systems, integrated delivery networks, or large hospital operations preferred
- Familiarity with RCA and revenue accounting preferred
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
Benefits
- Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
- Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
- Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
- Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
- Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
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