Finance Manager

About Sound: 

Headquartered in Tacoma, WA, Sound Physicians is a physician-founded and led, national, multi-specialty medical group made up of more than 1,000 business colleagues and 4,000 physicians, APPs, CRNAs, and nurses practicing in 400-plus hospitals across 45 states. Founded in 2001, and with specialties in emergency and hospital medicine, critical care, anesthesia, and telemedicine, Sound has a reputation for innovating and leading through an ever-changing healthcare landscape — with patients at the center of the universe. 

Sound Physicians offers a competitive benefits package inclusive of the items below, and more: 

• Medical insurance, Dental insurance, and Vision insurance 
• Health care and dependent care flexible spending account 
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match 
• Paid time off (PTO) begins accruing immediately upon start date at a rate of 15 days per year, in accordance with Sound's PTO policy
• Ten company-paid holidays per year   

About the Role: 

The Finance Manager is responsible for producing and delivering financial analyses to support key decisions for site and regional performance optimization and business growth.  The position is a key member of the operations team and reports directly to the Regional Director of Finance. This highly visible role has significant interaction with Regional Operations Manager, Accounting, Finance, Revenue Cycle, Physician Services and Performance Management teams as well as exposure to senior leadership.   Cross-team coordination, strong interpersonal skills, intermediate to advanced excel expertise, solid written and verbal presentation proficiency  and intellectual curiosity are a must. 

The Details:  

In this role, you will be responsible for: 

• Having a thorough understanding of each Hospital Contract for assigned sites
• Preparing pricing model and analysis for contract amendments and renewals
• Coordinating with the performance management team on financial impact analysis related to hospital team’s performance
• Reviewing monthly hospital invoice and payroll files with Regional Staff Accountant to ensure consistency with operational activities and contract terms
• Detailed Budgeting and Forecasting with an understanding of key financial and operational drivers
• Monthly research and written analysis of variances of actual performance to budgeted and forecasted performance
• Presenting  monthly financials and related analysis to senior leadership
• Reviewing and analyzing payroll activity to ensure proper payment per physician contracts
• Providing analytical support for site and regional optimization projects

• Resourceful: Proactive willingness to utilize available information and tools to figure things out
• Adaptable: Demonstrates flexibility and a willingness to change as circumstances evolve
• Collaborative:  Demonstrates the ability to work well with others to accomplish a goal and get the work done; takes opinions of others into consideration; includes others in the decision-making process
• Intellectually curious: Demonstrates a genuine interest in learning new things and wants to know the reason “why” behind the way things are done
• Passionate: Demonstrates a genuine enthusiasm for and excitement about the work; gets others excited about work or projects they're involved in and working on
• Strategic thinker: Demonstrates the ability to look at the big picture and proactively develop a plan of action
• Teamwork: Demonstrates the ability to pull people together into highly effective teams along with ability to work in a highly matrixed organization
• Communication: The ability to speak, write, and listen clearly and consistently
• Relationship Building and Maintenance: The ability to create and nourish healthy, strong relationships, as the face of Sound

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Intermediate to advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Must have at least 5 years of related experience

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