Director, Physician Finance and Analytics in Oakland, California at Alameda Health System

SUMMARY: The Director, Physician Finance & Analytics is a senior strategic finance leader responsible for advancing Alamedas Health System’s physician financial performance, workforce strategy, and clinical business analytics. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer with a dotted-line relationship to the Chief Medical Officer/Chief Physician Executive, the Director serves as a trusted strategic advisor to executive, physician, and operational leadership, translating complex physician, clinical, operational, and financial data into actionable strategies that advance organizational priorities.

The Director leads physician financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, performance management, and analytics, with accountability for evaluating physician productivity, compensation, workforce utilization, service-line economics, contracted services, and resource allocation. The role identifies and leads opportunities to improve physician productivity, access, revenue, cost efficiency, and financial sustainability while ensuring recommendations align with regulatory, compliance, fair-market-value, and organizational requirements.

In partnership with executive and physician leadership, the Director evaluates new and existing services, develops business cases and financial models, assesses strategic investments and workforce alternatives, and provides executive-level recommendations regarding growth, expansion, redesign, insourcing, outsourcing, and optimization of physician services. The Director also leads the development of executive dashboards, performance reporting, and long-range financial analyses that strengthen transparency, accountability, and data-driven decision-making across physician enterprise and clinical operations.

DUTIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: NOTE: The following are the duties performed by employees in this classification. However, employees may perform other related duties at an equivalent level. Not all duties listed are necessarily performed by each individual in the classification.

1. Serves as a strategic thought partner and advisor to executive and physician leadership, translating complex financial and operational information into clear business recommendations and executive-level presentations that enable informed decisions regarding resource allocation, physician strategy, service-line growth, and organizational sustainability.

2. Provides oversight of physician financial performance, including physician productivity, wRVUs, FTE utilization, compensation, specialty benchmarking, staffing models, physician contracts, coverage arrangements, and physician service-line economics. Identifies opportunities to optimize physician workforce investments and improve productivity, access, operational effectiveness, and financial sustainability.

3. Directs the development of executive-level financial reporting, dashboards, and performance analytics that provide leadership with timely and actionable information regarding financial performance, productivity, revenue, expenses, utilization, and strategic initiatives.

4. Leads development of physician annual budgets, forecasts, and financial performance plans. Establishes budgets to achieve financial targets and performance expectations and partners with operational and physician leadership to align resources with strategic priorities. Provides interpretation of financial results and recommends corrective actions when performance deviates from plan.

5. Identifies and leads enterprise opportunities for revenue enhancement, cost optimization, productivity improvement, and resource utilization. Develops data-driven recommendations and leads cross-functional teams involving Finance, physician leadership, clinical operations, Revenue Cycle, Human Resources, contracting, Legal, Compliance and other stakeholders. Facilitates alignment among stakeholders with competing priorities, translates identified opportunities into measurable financial and operational results.

6. Evaluates new and existing service lines and programs, including business plans, pro formas, volume and capacity analyses. Challenges assumptions, identifies financial and operational risks, and provides executive leadership with clear recommendations regarding investment, expansion, redesigning, insourcing, outsourcing, or discontinuation of services.

7. Supports strategic business development and programmatic opportunity assessments for inclusion in the AHS long range strategic plan in partnership with Strategy, physician leaders, executives, operational leaders, and internal and external stakeholders.

8. Performs other organizational duties as assigned by executive leadership.

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance or related field required.

Preferred Education: Master’s degree in healthcare administration, or an MBA, CPA.

Required Experience: Seven (7) years of experience working with health care information; experience with physician compensation models, Medicare payment models, financial/billing healthcare data (ICD-10, CPT, DRG); project management, consulting or decision support; developing business plans; experience analyzing data within relational database systems and tools, Excel, Pivot tables, etc.