Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Connections Health Solutions is a leading provider of immediate-access behavioral health crisis care. They are seeking a Finance Manager to drive core FP&A execution, including budgeting, forecasting, and financial modeling while partnering with senior leadership to modernize the finance function.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain detailed financial and operational models that support the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range financial plan
- Integrating actual financial results into forecasting and planning models
- Supporting the VP of Finance with financial planning, forecasting, and scenario analysis
- Developing baseline and worst-case cash flow scenarios to support financial decision-making
- Identifying financial trends, risks, and opportunities that may impact organizational performance
- Own monthly financial reporting and budget-to-actual variance analysis, providing leadership with clear insights into financial performance
- Partnering with Accounting to support a timely and accurate month-end close
- Preparing monthly financial reporting packages
- Analyzing variances and providing clear narratives around key financial drivers, risks, and opportunities
- Translating complex financial data into actionable recommendations for senior and executive leadership
- Leverage AI and automation tools to modernize finance processes, improve accuracy, and increase efficiency
- Design and implement automated workflows using tools such as Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and other AI-enabled solutions
- Identify opportunities to eliminate manual processes and streamline financial reporting and analysis
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to enhance finance operations
- Partner with Revenue Cycle (RCM) and market leadership to analyze revenue performance, collections trends, and opportunities for improvement
- Monitor revenue and collections performance and identify emerging trends
- Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support improved revenue performance
- Partner with market leaders to understand financial results and identify opportunities to improve center margins
- Partner with Operations and Clinical Leadership to evaluate staffing models and translate workforce plans into financial impact
- Analyze staffing levels, productivity, and labor costs against financial targets
- Identify opportunities to improve staffing efficiency and operational performance
- Support leaders in understanding the financial impact of staffing decisions
- Serve as a strategic finance partner to market operators and cross-functional leaders, providing financial guidance to support business decisions
- Build strong partnerships with Operations, Revenue Cycle, Clinical Leadership, People, IT, and Data & Analytics
- Translate business strategies and operational priorities into financial plans and measurable objectives
- Provide leaders with actionable insights to improve financial and operational performance
- Drive accountability against financial targets and organizational goals
- Develop, monitor, and analyze key performance indicators across revenue, labor, productivity, and operating margins
- Establish and maintain financial and operational performance metrics
- Proactively identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities
- Provide regular reporting and insights to leadership to support performance management and decision-making
- Translate financial and operational data into clear insights and recommendations for senior and executive leadership
- Identify opportunities to improve organizational results and financial performance
- Support strategic decision-making through financial modeling, analysis, and scenario planning
- Communicate financial information in a clear and meaningful way to both financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, or Economics
- 3- years in Corporate Finance / FP&A, investment banking, or a related analytical field, ideally in a high-growth or multi-entity environment
- 3+ years of manager/supervisor experience
- Recent, hands-on experience implementing AI and automation tools in a finance or accounting setting
- Excellent financial modeling and quantitative analysis, and problem-solving skills with advanced proficiency in Excel and experience working with large, complex datasets
- Extreme attention to detail with a high regard for precision and auditability
- Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial information, influence business decisions, and build trusted relationships with senior and executive leadership
- A 'get things done' mentality—you dissect complex problems, find solutions, and drive them to completion with a high degree of autonomy
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting to evolving priorities
- The Company has a mandatory vaccination policy. All successful applicants must be fully vaccinated, including showing proper documentation, or otherwise be exempt pursuant to the Company's exemption process prior to their start date as a condition of employment
- 5+ years of manager/supervisory experience
- Healthcare experience, especially in multi-site healthcare
- Experience with Adaptive Planning, NetSuite, and/or Tipalti, and data-visualization tools
- Exposure to county/municipal funding, FFS revenue, and capitated arrangements
- People-leadership or mentoring experience
- Experience in a venture-backed, private-equity-backed, or other high-growth environment where finance partnered closely with leadership to build scalable reporting, planning, and operating processes
- CPA or CFA
Benefits
- Employees (and their families) are offered comprehensive health insurance, including Medical, Dental, Vision, Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- CHS pays for Basic Life, AD&D, Short and Long-Term Disability
- Voluntary Life insurance option for employees and their families
- Health Savings Accounts (with $1,000 to $2,000 employer contribution depending on plan)
- Flexible Spending Accounts (health care and dependent care)
- 401k company match after 6 months (50% of deferrals up to 6% of compensation)
- Generous PTO starting at 160 hours accrued annually and 12 recognized company holidays
- Company‑paid parental leave available to eligible employees
- Employee Assistance Program to help with confidential emotional support, work life solutions, financial solutions, legal assistance, or online support
- After 90 days, you are auto enrolled in the 401k Plan
- This is a fully remote position in these states: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WA, WI
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