Description
Calling All Esteemed Leaders!
Are you a visionary financial strategist ready to influence the future of healthcare at scale? Do you excel at navigating complexity, inspiring collaboration, and driving operational excellence across diverse teams? If so, this may be the opportunity where your leadership creates meaningful, measurable impact.
The Role
As the
Service Area Chief Financial Officer , you will serve as a key member of the service area leadership decision‑making team, partnering closely with local ministry leadership to guide financial strategy, operational performance, and long‑term sustainability.
You will collaborate with regional and local executives to set strategic direction, achieve operational goals, ensure fiscal discipline, and support ongoing system transformation efforts. In this highly influential role, you will also represent the service area in finance leadership capacities across joint ventures, boards, and management teams as delegated by the Regional CFO.
Reporting directly to the Regional CFO—with a matrixed partnership to Service Area and local ministry Chief Executives—you will play a central role in driving financial excellence and advancing our mission.
What You’ll Do
- Mission‑Driven Leadership: Carry out and champion the mission, vision, and values of Providence St. Joseph Health.
- Strategic Partner: Provide leadership and insight to ensure achievement of service area operating results and long‑term strategic goals.
- Performance Enhancer: Collaborate with leadership teams to diagnose issues, solve complex problems, and implement initiatives that strengthen financial performance.
- Budget Architect: Direct the details, development, and execution of service area budgets.
- Benchmark Guardian: Manage to appropriate financial metrics, benchmarks, and reporting indicators to ensure accountability and accuracy.
- Operational Advisor: Partner with the Service Area CEO during monthly operating reviews to analyze performance and support decision‑making.
- Representative & Board Leader: Serve on joint venture boards or committees as assigned by regional leadership.
- Cross‑Functional Connector: Work closely with shared services partners—including Revenue Cycle, Accounting, Reimbursement, Resource Engineering, and Hospitality—on reporting, performance improvement, and operational initiatives.
- Community Finance Liaison: Represent finance on local and geographic boards/committees and communicate regularly with leaders and employees on financial matters.
- Partnership Builder: Assist the Regional CFO in managing relationships with key shared services such as Revenue Cycle, Real Estate & Facilities, and System Accounting & Finance.
- Financial Steward: Exercise signature authority and ensure adherence to state, federal, and organizational authority matrix requirements.
What You’ll Bring
- Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Master’s Degree in Accounting or Finance (Preferred).
- Experience:
- 10+ years of closely related experience.
- 10+ years of leadership responsibility.
- CPA, HFMA, or FACHE (Preferred).
- Financial Expertise:
- Ability to apply mathematical methods and analytical reasoning to complex problems.
- Strong competency in interpreting financial data and using insights to drive decisions.
- Proven problem‑solving skills and ability to apply financial principles effectively.
- Communication & Interpersonal Skills:
- Exceptional written communication tailored to diverse audiences.
- Ability to develop and deliver compelling presentations in person or virtually.
- Strong collaboration, relationship‑building, and conflict‑management abilities.
- Skilled at engaging with executive leadership, operational teams, and community partners.
- Healthcare Knowledge:
- Understanding of trends, shifts, and emerging developments within healthcare.
- Decision‑Making & Organizational Strength:
- Ability to represent the organization with professionalism and credibility.
- High accuracy, even under pressure.
- Strong judgment and analytical decision‑making.
- Advanced organizational and prioritization skills.
- Productivity & Execution:
- Skilled at working within tight timelines and managing multiple priorities.
- Ability to drive projects to completion and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Proven ability to establish and evaluate performance metrics.
- Project Management:
- Demonstrated leadership in project planning, oversight, and budget management.
- Ability to coordinate operational teams and escalate issues appropriately.
- Technical Skills:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and desktop productivity tools.
- Working knowledge of office practices and healthcare information technology (including EMRs, registries, dashboards, and other digital tools).
Why Join Us?
- Lead with Purpose: Play a critical leadership role in strengthening financial performance while advancing a mission rooted in compassion, service, and community impact.
- Shape the Future: Influence strategy across ministries and service areas during a transformative era in healthcare.
- Collaborate with Excellence: Work alongside talented executives, clinical leaders, and shared‑services experts dedicated to innovation and stewardship.
- Grow & Thrive: Enjoy opportunities for professional growth, cross‑functional partnership, and leadership development within a nationally recognized health system.
- Make a Real Difference: Your work will directly support improved care delivery, patient experience, and community well‑being.
At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve. Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists of three days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting distance to the ministry or service area they support and lead.
About Providence
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Requsition ID: 411695
Company: Providence Jobs
Job Category: Finance Operations
Job Function: Finance
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day
Career Track: Leadership
Department: 4004 SS REG FIN OPS OR
Address: OR Medford 1111 Crater Lake Ave
Work Location: Providence Medford Medical Center
Workplace Type: On-site
Pay Range: $76.52 - $136.79
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
