Finance Director- Sports Medicine - Boston Children's Hospital

The Director of Finance will be responsible for:

• Directing and managing the day-to-day operations of the Department's finance operations. Supervising Hospital and contract staff in accounting and billing. Establishing priorities, reviewing progress, and problem-solving.
• Collaborating with the finance department to ensure that Department needs are recognized, represented, and reflected in changes to the hospital's financial systems. Ensuring the timely and accurate transfer of Department financial data to the finance department for inclusion in institutional financial statements and reports.
• Interpreting Hospital, Physician’s Organization, government, and Financial Accounting Standards Board regulations and issues related to financial management and accounting. Communicating their existence and impact on the department and foundation management team. Negotiating with Hospital administration, departments, Department management, and PIs regarding difficult financial issues pertaining to all phases of financial management.
• Providing a myriad of financial analyses of Department activities to determine the appropriate level of funding, expenses, overhead, trends, projections, and other needs of the department, to Hospital, Department, and Foundation senior management.
• Working with Hospital administration, departments, Department management, and PIs to identify and resolve problems with systems, procedures, policy, or other financial issues and, where appropriate, developing new systems or other alternatives that result in improved service and/or more cost efficiencies.
• Supporting the Foundation's annual independent audit, including preparing the financial statements, supporting schedules, and variance reporting, and assessing and responding to any findings.
• Developing alternative strategies and solutions to identified control or procedural weaknesses, whether identified via an audit or by departmental reviews.
• Recommending and setting accounting procedures as they relate to grant and contract administration.
• Effectively managing employees within assigned unit/department and persuading and negotiating with peer-level directors on issues and programs that impact the department and foundation.

To qualify, you must have:

• Bachelor’s Degree. Master’s preferred.
• 8 years related experience.                                                               
• Proficient in preparing financial statements and budget variance analysis.
• Strong analytical skills for designing and improving hospital-wide systems.
• Current knowledge of regulations for large budget management.
• Skilled in mediating conflicts and finding workable solutions.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
• Experienced in recommending and implementing new policies.

Boston Children’s Hospital offers competitive compensation and unmatched benefits including flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, childcare and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes.