Vice President Finance & Corporate Controller

Vice President Finance & Corporate Controller

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting.
• 5 Years corporate finance/management experience within a multi-hospital system. Must have held financial responsibility for an organization with at least $3 billion in revenue.
• Experience interacting and presenting to customers and other senior groups.
• Background in general compliance work.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic management of the accounting and controllership functions.
• Direct accounting policies, procedures and internal controls.
• Recommend improvements to ensure the integrity of financial information.
• Manage and oversee the relationship with independent auditors, the annual financial audit, and presentation to Audit/Finance Committee.
• Plan, organize, and coordinate the month end and year end close process at the entity and consolidated level, including monthly Financial Accounting and Reporting (FARM) meetings with entity Chief Financial Officers.
• Prepare meaningful, accurate and timely entity specific and consolidated financial statements, including the quantitative and qualitative analysis and notes thereto.
• Direct and manage the Corporate Accounting, Tax, A/P, Payroll, Reimbursement, Decision Support, and Budget functions.
• Oversees Revenue Recognition models to ensure timely, accurate estimates of Net Revenue including analysis of factors affecting monthly and annual results.
• Oversees Sharp’s five-year operating, and capital planning process, providing a five-year roadmap for Sharp and a feasibility study for the strategic plan. In conjunction with the Treasury function, be responsible for determining the cash provided by operations, financings, and philanthropy during the five-year projection period to support strategic capital investments.
• Oversee financial systems implementations and upgrades related to general ledger, payroll, accounts payable, budget, decision support, and treasury.
• Manage the preparation of System Services budgets and Net Revenue Budgets for all entities.
• Coordinate the compilation of operating entity budgets and System Services budgets into a consolidated budget.
• Coordinate and manage quarterly forecast updates to the annual budget.
• Communicate the actual performance versus budget and objectives to Senior Management, Operations leaders and System Services leaders.
• Supports other departments including Office of Transformation in estimating and measuring the financial impacts of initiatives.
• Collaborate with leaders of other departments to prepare for critical business opportunities.
• Collaborates with the Chief Financial Officer to ensure System Services departments operate within budget.
• Ensure compliance with state and federal regulations.
• Oversee reporting and payment of all local, state and federal tax information.
• Review various corporate tax returns; conduct research and planning according to current tax laws; and advise senior executives on the tax impact of company activities and transactions.
• Represent the company on tax audits conducted by outside regulatory agencies.
• Represent the company on governmental audits conducted by outside regulatory agencies.
• Facilitate communication with appropriate government agencies, in-house counsel, and outside legal counsel on reimbursement and tax matters.
• Provide training and consultation to, Senior Executives, Operations leaders, System Services leaders and other Sharp management personnel.
• Hire, train and retain competent accounting and finance staff.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) – CA Board of Accountancy -PREFERRED