Healthcare Financial Advisory Services Director

Huron Consulting Group
Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients. Joining the Huron team means you'll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise. When healthcare organizations are managing escalating financial stress, Huron recognizes the response must be urgent and direct. Huron's industry-leading Healthcare Financial Advisory Services team works with healthcare leaders to prevent financial management missteps and prioritize business decisions that reset the financial trajectory of their organizations. Huron assists clients through improved planning, operations and managing through crises. Business and financial planning, projections and scenario analyses
Interim management/strategy execution
FP&A assistance for profit improvement
Directors are senior leaders within Huron's Healthcare Financial Advisory Services practice. They are responsible for leading complex client engagements, serving as trusted advisors to C-suite and board-level stakeholders, and driving the growth of the practice through client expansion and new business development. Directors bring deep healthcare financial expertise, strong executive presence, and a proven ability to translate complex financial issues into decisive action. Minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including significant consulting experience in financial advisory roles serving healthcare provider clients such as health systems and hospital or acute care organizations. Deep expertise in healthcare provider finance, including capital planning, liquidity management, and key operational and financial performance drivers. Experience leading restructuring, turnaround, performance improvement, or similarly rigorous advisory engagements in high-stakes client environments. Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-workstream engagements, including oversight of project teams, senior client relationships, and executive-level deliverables. Advanced financial analysis and modeling expertise, including evaluation of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements; pro forma financial modeling; discounted cash flow analysis; and strategic financial planning. Ability to synthesize complex financial analyses and translate them into clear, actionable recommendations for C-suite and board-level audiences. Strong experience overseeing healthcare financial reporting and analysis, including liquidity forecasting, cash flow management, operational improvement and overhead analyses, and executive-level presentations and pitch materials. Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
MBA or other advanced degree. CPA, CIRA, CTP, CFA, CDB certification (or active pursuit of one or more).
Travel & Location
Travel requirements vary by project; candidates must be willing to travel up to 80% on a weekly basis. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron's annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron's pay for performance philosophy. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.
Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business.