Chief Financial Officer - Medical Foundation

Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.

The Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Medical Foundation serves as the senior financial executive for the City of Hope Medical Foundation and provides strategic financial leadership in partnership with the City of Hope Medical Group, a for-profit professional corporation. Together, these organizations comprise one of the nation’s leading academic oncology physician enterprises and a clinically integrated network of cancer care providers across multiple markets.omic performance of a combined enterprise exceeding $900 million in annual operating revenue. Partnering closely with physician leaders, operational executives and system leadership, this executive will shape financial strategies that advance City of Hope’s mission while strengthening clinical excellence, patient access, physician engagement and organizational growth.

As a key member of the Medical Foundation executive leadership team, the CFO will oversee financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, physician compensation modeling, revenue optimization, practice economics, capital planning, growth initiatives, business development, payer strategy support, mergers and acquisitions, and enterprise performance improvement. This is an opportunity to build a culture of accountability, transparency, data-driven decision-making and operational excellence across a growing clinical network.

As a successful candidate, you will:

• Serve as the chief financial executive for the Medical Foundation and a strategic financial partner to the Medical Group.
• Develop and execute long-range financial strategies that support organizational growth, physician alignment, academic priorities and clinical excellence.
• Safeguard the long-term financial sustainability of the clinical network through disciplined financial management and strategic resource allocation.
• Advise the System Chief Executive, Medical Foundation, executive leadership teams, physician leadership, and the Medical Foundation and Medical Group boards.
• Oversee annual operating budgets, long-range financial plans, capital plans and rolling forecasts for the Medical Foundation and Medical Group.
• Evaluate financial and operational performance, identify emerging market risks, and recommend process improvements that reduce waste and maximize return on investment.
• Assess investments supporting ambulatory expansion, regional growth and new service-line development.
• Provide strategic analysis of market competition, reimbursement trends, consumer demand and healthcare industry developments.
• Lead financial strategy related to physician compensation, revenue optimization, practice economics, payer strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, and performance improvement.
• Foster accountability, transparency, collaboration, integrity and data-driven decision-making across the clinical network.

Your qualifications should include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field with a current California CPA license, or a master’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field.
• At least 10 years of experience in healthcare financial and operational leadership roles.
• Comprehensive knowledge of healthcare organizations, including integrated physician-hospital structures, acute care hospitals, and outpatient and ambulatory care.
• Strong understanding of physicians’ perspectives and needs, healthcare financing, strategy, integration, joint ventures, community benefit and charity care.
• Ability to cultivate collaborative relationships with staff and leaders at all levels, building credibility and support for strategic initiatives.
• Executive presence with outstanding written, verbal, presentation and public-speaking skills.
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and financial-modeling or analytics tools, including Crystal Ball, Access, Tableau or comparable business intelligence platforms.
• Unwavering integrity, sound judgment, initiative and a demonstrated commitment to professionalism, respect and compliance.
• Academic medical center or faculty practice plan leadership experience is preferred.
• Experience in oncology, cancer centers, multi-specialty physician groups, physician governance, employed physician enterprises, or physician compensation models is preferred.

City of Hope employees’ pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.

City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.