Finance Director

The Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) Director will report into the CFO and have responsibility for leading the organization's budgeting, forecasting, strategic analysis, and management reporting functions. The FP&A Director develops and maintains financial models that integrate census, revenue, labor, operating expenses, capital investments, and cash flow. The position serves as a strategic business partner to operational leaders, helping them understand financial performance, identify trends and opportunities, manage resources effectively, and make informed decisions consistent with the organization's mission and long-term financial objectives. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES • Lead the organization's annual budget process, including development of the overall operating budget and coordination with department leaders. • Develop and maintain department-level budgets in collaboration with operational and administrative leadership. • Establish budget timelines, assumptions, templates, and guidelines. • Consolidate departmental budgets into the organization's comprehensive annual operating plan. • Analyze budget assumptions and identify potential financial risks and opportunities. • Partner with leadership to ensure budgets align with strategic priorities and organizational goals. • Lead the monthly forecasting process, updating projections based on actual results, current trends, census, labor, revenue, and operating conditions. • Maintain rolling forecasts and communicate significant changes to executive leadership. • Identify emerging financial risks and opportunities and recommend appropriate actions. • Compare actual results to budget and forecast and explain significant changes. • Develop and maintain a 12-month cash forecast to support liquidity management and financial planning. • Monitor projected cash receipts, operating expenditures, payroll, capital expenditures, debt service, and other significant cash requirements. • Identify potential cash flow pressures and communicate issues to the CFO and executive leadership. • Partner with Accounting and Treasury to reconcile forecasted cash activity to actual results. • Support short- and long-term liquidity planning. • Partner with department leaders to develop explanations and corrective action plans. • Identify recurring trends and provide recommendations to improve financial performance, efficiency, utilization, and resource allocations. • Perform detailed labor analysis, including staffing levels, labor hours, overtime, agency utilization, wage rates, benefits, and productivity. • Lead the annual capital budget process and maintain capital expenditure forecasts. • Analyze proposed capital investments and their financial and operational impact.