Manager, Corporate Finance

At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together. Location: Durham, NC (Flexible: Remote or Hybrid options available) Company: Duke University Health System (DUHS) Occupational Summary Serve as a Manager in Corporate Finance, primarily responsible for managing the cost accounting or the patient data reporting processes as assigned. This role requires a highly analytical leader capable of driving accuracy and efficiency within a massive, multi-billion-dollar health system environment. Core Responsibilities Process Management: Manage processes over the assigned area, ensuring that tasks are completed timely and accurately based on the established monthly calendar. Audit & Reporting: Manage the monthly audit, analysis, and reporting completed by the Financial Analysts. Prepare comprehensive written reports and trend analyses. Reconciliation: Perform strict system reconciliations to source systems and documents. Ad‑Hoc Analysis: Manage the coordination of ad‑hoc requests, ensuring complex analyses are completed as needed and within tight deadlines. Team Leadership: Supervise, review the work of, and train two (2) assigned Financial Analysts. Staff Development: Develop professional staff and recommend various personnel actions, including (but not limited to) hiring, performance appraisals, transfers, promotions, and vacation schedules. General Duties: Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Candidate Profile) Scale & Ambiguity: Proven track record of managing financial processes for multi‑billion‑dollar projects (supporting a $9B operating budget). Must be highly adaptable and comfortable managing through ambiguity. Project Management & Work Ethic: Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects with minimal supervision. Must possess the flexibility and willingness to work extended hours on critical projects to meet or exceed strict deadline expectations. Communication & Stakeholder Management: Interact on a routine basis with leaders at all levels of the Health System and University, requiring excellent, executive‑level oral and written communication skills. Collaboration: Coordinate efforts with other Finance and Operations departments across the Health System, requiring exceptional interpersonal, partnership, and team‑building skills. Technical & AI Proficiency: Significant analytical and problem‑solving skills. Experience utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve process efficiencies is required. Familiarity with financial systems such as Strata and Axiom is a strong plus. Minimum Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree required, demonstrating strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills with rigorous attention to detail. An MBA is considered highly valuable and strongly preferred. Experience: Generally requires eight (8) years of progressive accounting, financial management, and/or financial auditing experience, including deep knowledge of financial reporting. A Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or a related field may be substituted for two (2) years of experience (effectively requiring 6 years of experience). Experience in an academic medical center or complex healthcare system is strongly preferred. Degrees, Licensures, Certifications: Master’s Degree or CPA preferred. Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status. Essential Physical Job Functions Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department. #J-18808-Ljbffr Duke Clinical Research Institute