EyeCare Partners is the nation’s leading provider of clinically integrated eye care. Our national network of over 300 ophthalmologists and 700 optometrists provides a lifetime of care to our patients with a mission to enhance vision, advance eye care and improve lives. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, over 650 ECP-affiliated practice locations provide care in 18 states and 80 markets, providing services that span the eye care continuum. For more information, visit www.eyecare-partners.com.
Position Overview
The Finance Manager is responsible for assisting the finance team in the detailed financial analysis of EyeCare Partners healthcare operations. This role reports directly to the Director of Operational Finance, and partners closely with the Ophthalmology leadership teams to drive operational improvements and efficiencies. The ideal candidate will be detail oriented with a focus on growth, margin and profitability goals and contribute as a valued member of the team. The Finance Manager develops, executes, and analyzes financial reports/models that aid in the decision making of the company. This strategic role will be responsible for the effective interpretation of financial information to identify key issues and strategies that support the company’s operational plan. Provide substantially improved and actionable recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance and business opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, consolidate, interpret, and clearly communicate financial data for actuals, forecasts, and budgets to practice and division leaders. This will be done on a monthly and mid-month basis
- Understand and contribute to rapidly changing business models, drive collaboration across teams, develop recommendations on strategic investment decisions, and partner with business leaders to solve problems and achieve goals
- Develop financial business plans and forecasts. Utilize forward-looking, predictive models and activity-based financial analyses to provide insight into the organization’s operations and business plans. Works with division leadership to update/recast projections providing an accurate view of expected results
- Drives and owns budgeting process with practice leadership, building a credible budget and defined path to execution
- Partner with financial and operational leadership to understand and define important problems, gather, reconcile, and organize financial information, and interpret their results
- Develop financial and operational reports, models using Excel; familiarity with SAP, PowerBI and Adaptive Planning a strong plus
- Drive financial planning processes related to headcount and OpEx planning, budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
- Assist in the creation of physician compensation models, as well as handling communication with physicians on a as needed basis
- Partner with operational leadership to justify capital requests including the calculation of potential returns on real estate investments (de novo or relocation projects) and management of overall capital budget
- Other ad hoc requests/special projects consistent with company objectives
Qualifications
- BS Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration
- 3-5+ years management consulting, corporate strategy, financial analysis and/or accounting experience
- 3-5+ years experience in financial planning, financial modeling, and creating data-driven analyses
- Proficient in MS Office - Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
- SAP, Adaptive Planning, or PowerBI experience a big plus
- Ability to influence multiple stakeholder groups with different objectives and priorities to achieve consensus, ability to collaborate with internal stakeholders to solve complex problems through concrete financial analytics and sound business judgment
- Ability to identify business and operational risks and define approaches to mitigate
- Demonstrated ability to work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, and ability to execute despite ambiguity or imperfect information
- Proven ability to analyze complex data and identify relevant patterns to help aid business decisions
- Ability to prioritize and plan work activities, use time efficiently, meet reasonable or sometimes aggressive deadlines, develop realistic action plans, and adapt quickly to shifting priorities
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