Director of Finance

20 hours ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States National Association for Healthcare Quality Full time
Job Title: Director of Finance

Join National Association for Healthcare Quality as we seek a highly skilled and experienced Director of Finance to lead our finance and accounting functions. This is a unique opportunity to shape the financial strategy and growth of a dynamic, fast-growing organization at the forefront of innovation in the healthcare quality continuum.

About the Role

The Director of Finance will be responsible for developing and implementing financial processes and reporting, including budgeting, forecasting, financial planning, and analysis. This role will play a pivotal part in driving the financial strategy and growth of the organization, supporting executive decision-making, and optimizing financial performance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead the finance and accounting functions, including budgeting and forecasting processes, providing accurate and timely financial reports, analysis, and recommendations to support decision-making.
  • Manage cash flow, investment strategies, and banking relationships to optimize liquidity and working capital.
  • Build financial models and analyses to aid in management decisions on product launches, GTM strategies, resource allocation, growth, cash flow management, and mission impact decisions.
  • Lead the annual financial audit and preparation of the necessary documentation to support the audit process.
  • Oversee the preparation of financial statements, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements, and ensure compliance with GAAP.
  • Work cross-functionally, driving standardization and process improvement in all aspects of planning and reporting.
  • Prepare analysis and reports for the preparation of the annual 990 tax filing and lead the 990-preparation process.
  • Provide insight and recommendations to both short-term and long-term growth plans of the organization.
  • Identify and mitigate financial risks while seizing opportunities for growth and profitability.
  • Establish contingency plans and scenarios to effectively manage potential financial crises or disruptions, maintaining business continuity and minimizing impact.
  • Ensure compliance with all financial regulations, reporting requirements, and internal policies to mitigate legal and regulatory risks.
  • Spearhead the transition of accounting operations from external service providers to internal management within the next year, including the setup of accounting systems, development of new processes, and training of internal staff.
  • Monitor staff performance and develop goals consistent with the organization's strategic plan.
  • Travel to board meetings, client visits, and/or conferences up to 3-5 times a year, 2-5 day trips.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or relevant field; a CPA or MBA strongly preferred.
  • Progressive responsibilities in F&A leadership.
  • Demonstrated success in developing and continuously improving the FP&A (budgeting and forecasting) process for a rapidly growing organization with diversified product and services offerings, including cash flow forecasting and management.
  • Ability to develop B2B and B2C financial models from scratch across product and service offerings. Experience working with intellectual property/R&D, tech capital amortization, brand/policy helpful.
  • Tech Savvy and able to directly develop reports/dashboards using advanced Excel, PowerBI, and/or Tableau. Experience integrating data from multiple sources, CRM (Salesforce, Nimble, HubSpot), and financial ERP (Sage Intacct).
  • Effective communication skills, including influencing senior leadership and full organization to adopt new processes and data-driven decision making (change management).
  • Exceptional problem-solving and financial analytical skills.
  • Results-oriented, self-starter, entrepreneurial, deadline-conscious, intellectually curious, and has a willingness to learn.
  • Commitment to continual process improvement, the spirit of innovation, and teamwork.
Preferred Experiences
  • Grant management and reporting (small amount of incoming revenue) including work with demonstration projects and/or CMS.
  • Vendor management experience and a solid understanding of contracts management and compliance. Banking relationship experience helpful.
  • Previous experience bringing accounting in-house from outsourced to public and/or building a lean accounting team from the ground up.
  • Knowledge of or experience with healthcare, workforce development, and/or quality standards helpful.
  • Direct accounting experience and knowledge of GAAP highly preferred.
  • Experience developing board/executive-level reports.
About National Association for Healthcare Quality

National Association for Healthcare Quality is a collaborative, innovative, and open environment that asks its staff to be responsible for multiple programs, utilizing a variety of skills. We are a mission-focused non-profit scaling like a startup, with an impactful vision. With our dedicated team, we will continue to grow and transform.

Our values are Personal Accountability, Empathy, High Performance, Teamwork, Authenticity/Diversity, Organizational Ownership, Improvement, Service, and Adaptability. We aim to set and communicate a clear compelling vision, coach, develop, and manage staff to meet organizational goals while also growing personal competencies for continued professional development.

A growth and improvement mindset that embodies our daily work and our interactions inside and outside of the organization. Our culture is optimistic, energetic, accountable, and fun.

NAHQ retains the right to change or assign other duties to this position. This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying the position nor does it constitute a contract of employment.

Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by their supervisor; subject to reasonable accommodation.

NAHQ is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. We hire without regard to age, color, disability, gender (including gender identity), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

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