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 accounts
• 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 Senior Director is a key strategic team member reporting to the VP, Finance, to manage all financial reporting and analytics functions in the Accountable Care Organization (ACO). In collaboration with the business leadership and other centralized functions such as accounting, revenue cycle, corporate finance, IT, etc. this individual will be critical in building and managing the financial infrastructure necessary for the success of those business lines. The individual will serve as a thought-leader using exceptional financial and analytical acumen along with industry knowledge to support, coach, and enable service line executives, and operational leaders to deliver outstanding performance and results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Budgeting and Forecasting

• Leading ACO financial modeling, budgeting, forecasting processes
• Partnering with key stakeholders internally to develop an understanding of business unit risks, and opportunities and incorporating those assumptions into the financial forecasts
• Building and maintaining monthly close financial documentation, analyses and narrative on results
• Coordinating with Sound finance to ensure alignment with company timelines and processes
• Managing the development of communication materials with Sound executives to support approval process

Decision Support

• Developing and managing decision support tools by leveraging relevant data and key assumptions from business leaders and colleagues
• Conducting financial impact analysis to support decisions and measure results
• Supporting sales team in modeling potential performance of target deals and arrangements
• Supporting leadership team in modeling vendor deals and strategic support development of such agreements

Performance Management

• Building and maintaining monthly close financial documentation, analyses and narrative on results
• Managing key performance indicators in partnership with service line leadership
• Developing reports and supporting documentation on service line financial performance, assuring accuracy and clarity of results
• Collaborating with operational teams in service lines to formulate, refine and operationalize strategies to achieve financial goals
• Liaison to service lines to broader Sound centralized finance teams such as corporate finance, accounting, revenue cycle

Values

• Critical thinking: Demonstrates the ability to look at the big picture and proactively develop a plan of action
• Customer-focus: Puts customer (internal and external) needs first and makes customers their top priority
• Bias toward action: Has a focus on progress rather than perfection. Breaks things into bite-sized pieces in order to make progress against larger goals
• Drive: Motivated to succeed and get things done at a high level of achievement
• Persistence: Demonstrates the ability to “keep at it” even when obstacles or challenges are present; returns to the work at hand after a change of course
• Clarity of Communication: Ability to articulate complex ideas in simple terms and to respond to questions directly, accurately and succinctly

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, expert level fluency in Excel. Some SQL or programming experience helpful.
• Analytical, data driven decision maker
• Highly organized and ability to lead large projects and processes
• Strong financial modeling, decision support and presentation skills
• Experience with CMS data, Value Based Care and risk structures
• Demonstrated ability to be successful in fast paced, high ambiguity growth organization

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Actuarial Science, Statistics, Accounting or Finance
• 8-10 years of experience in progressive analytics, actuarial or finance experience in a healthcare environment such as health plan, risk-bearing entity or medical group operations

Salary Range

Sound Physicians is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer and is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion at the bedside and in our workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This job description reflects the present requirements of the position. As duties and responsibilities change and develop, the job description will be reviewed and subject to amendment.