About the Agency:

The Group Insurance Commission (GIC) seeks to hire a Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The GIC provides high-value health insurance and other benefits to state employees, retirees, and their survivors and dependents. The GIC also covers employees and retirees of housing and redevelopment authorities as well as certain municipalities that elect to join the GIC.

The GIC administers the Commonwealth’s health, life, long term disability, flexible spending accounts, dental and vision insurance programs for some 435,000 state employees, retirees, and their dependents.

About the Position:

The Group Insurance Commission (GIC) is seeking a dynamic administrator for the position of Chief Financial Officer (CFO). As a member of the executive leadership team and reporting to the Executive Director, the CFO will oversee financial management, including long-term financial planning and analysis, as well as the annual budget process in partnership with the Executive Office of Administration & Finance and GIC senior staff. S/he will also define how financial analytics, along with other financial metrics including health care spending, delivery, rates and performance are determined and monitored.

S/he must possess strong financial acumen, be a versatile leader, and have the ability to synthesize and communicate complex financial information verbally and in writing. The CFO shall ensure that the Group Insurance Commission complies with the Commonwealth’s finance laws, regulations, and reporting requirements.

The successful candidate will safeguard internal efficiencies and controls, ensure sound fiscal operations and data integrity, and refine consistent and reliable management reporting/tracking. This individual will establish and partner with senior staff to ensure awareness of key dates and events from a financial perspective and understand any corresponding business implications. The candidate will also provide strategic financial advice and identify and implement process improvements, internally and with our outside partners whenever possible.

Duties and Responsibilities (these duties are a general summary and not all inclusive):

Direct and ensure the smooth operation of an efficient system of control within areas of responsibility including budget/revenue management, accounts receivable and payable, and financial regulatory compliance
Supervise a team as well as interface with the Executive Office of Administration & Finance CFO where appropriate
Mentor and develop staff in best practices for budgeting, financial analysis, accounting, revenue control, and auditing
Advise agency financial management in establishing fiscal goals, objectives, and short and long-range forecasting to ensure consistency with overall mission in the delivery of benefits
Serve as member of the executive leadership team; provide recommendations to Secretary for Administration and Finance on all policy, program, financial and political matters related to agency financials
Ensure maintenance of appropriate internal controls and financial procedures, which comply with all federal and state laws and regulations
Provide guidance and information to internal/external constituents including Commissioners, legislators, vendors, agency personnel and public forums by interpreting financial management policies, priorities and strategies
Consult and collaborate with the Office of State Comptroller and State Treasurer’s Office on fiscal practices and information sharing in support of business process improvement
Establish/enhance and document repeatable, best-in-class processes and practices
Participate in daily or weekly executive/management team meetings to discuss strategies, budget, priorities, and other concerns or issues

Preferred Qualifications:

At least seven (7) years of full-time professional/managerial experience of which the major duties included financial oversight and fiscal management;
Demonstrated success in the role of senior financial leader with a comparable or larger sized organization
Knowledge of the principles and practices of financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, revenue/expense analysis, and cost allocation process and reporting; governmental and regulatory reporting requirements
Experience in state government and health care preferred
Proven understanding of financial practices applied to Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS) and Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS)
Leadership ability, especially related to program design and implementation demonstrating financial acumen; confidence and executive presence
Strong analytical skills and experience translating a strategic vision into an operational model
Record of managing a team of direct and/or indirect senior-level administrators; engaging and developing staff
Ability to apply and explain pertinent laws, rules, regulations, policies and programs
Skilled in exercising a high degree of initiative, judgement, discretion and decision making to achieve objectives; Critical thinking skills to identify alternative solutions
Record of work in multidisciplinary teams that share and leverage the strengths of its members
Proficient usage of Microsoft Office products including Excel and Outlook

Qualifications

MINIMUM ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS:

Applicants must have at least (A) six (6) years of full-time or, equivalent part-time, professional, administrative, supervisory, or managerial experience in financial management work (i.e. budgeting, accounting, auditing, management analysis, program evaluation, financial reporting of program results), of which (B) at least two (2) years must have been in a supervisory or managerial capacity or (C) any equivalent combination of the required experience and substitutions below.

I. A certificate in a relevant or related field may be substituted for one (1) year of the required (A) experience.

II. A Bachelor's degree in a related field may be substituted for two (2) years of the required (A) experience.

III. A Graduate degree or higher in a related field may be substituted for three (3) years of the required (A) experience.

IV. A Doctorate degree in a related field may be substituted for four (4) years of the required (A) experience.

Comprehensive Benefits

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Chief Financial Officer - Group Insurance Commission (GIC)