Director - Finance Program & Change Management (Remote)

A Brief Overview
The Director of Finance Program & Change Management leads finance program and change management activities within the Finance Controller's Office in support of SHC Finance priorities. This role oversees the planning, prioritization, and execution of complex finance transformation initiatives, translating strategic priorities into executable program plans, governance structures, implementation roadmaps, change management strategies, and measurable outcomes. The director partners closely with functional finance leaders, business analysts, TDS partners, operational stakeholders, and executive leadership to advance transformation efforts, drive process standardization and operating model improvements, manage interdependencies, support strong internal controls and compliance, and enable adoption. This role is accountable for program schedules, budgets, risks, outcomes, and benefit realization, while also leading the development of program and change management standards, practices, and team capabilities for Stanford Health Care Finance.

Locations
Stanford Health Care

What you will do

• Strategic Program Leadership: Lead finance program and change management activities for transformation initiatives. Partner with Finance executive leadership to plan, prioritize, implement, and monitor strategic initiatives aligned with the Finance Controller's Office strategy and institutional mission. Implement new programs, processes, products, and plans that advance finance transformation priorities.
• Program Governance and Oversight: Establish and oversee program structures, including charters, scope, organizational design, schedules, and budgets, while ensuring appropriate governance, disciplined execution, process standardization, and operating model improvement across projects. Ensure transformation initiatives support strong internal controls, policy compliance, and audit readiness.
• Resource and Team Management: Assign or secure the resources needed to support execution. Provide leadership, coaching, and development for program managers, change managers, and other direct reports.
• Stakeholder Engagement and Cross-Functional Partnership: Build and sustain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including functional and operational leaders across Stanford Medicine, TDS partners, and account executives, to understand business needs, align priorities, and support program success.
• Performance Management and Risk Monitoring: Monitor and report on program and project performance, including schedules, budgets, risks, and benefit outcomes. Define success metrics, track the realization of financial, operational, and service improvements, and identify and escalate significant risks to leadership for timely mitigation.
• Communications and Change Enablement: Oversee communications, training, and readiness activities related to program and project progress to support alignment, transparency, adoption, and sustained change across impacted stakeholders.
• Leadership and Team Development: Build and develop a high-performing team by articulating a clear vision for the future of finance program and change management, fostering a culture of accountability, operational excellence, and collaboration, and using influence to build consensus and drive transformative outcomes. Perform supervisory responsibilities, including interviewing, selecting, training, evaluating, coaching, and addressing employee relations matters, as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. Required
• Master's degree from an accredited college or university. Preferred

Experience Qualifications

• Eight (8) years of progressively responsible, directly related experience in program management, project management, change management, or business transformation leadership.
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional programs with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and achievement of measurable business outcomes.
• Experience developing and executing organizational change management strategies, including stakeholder impact assessments, communications, training, readiness activities, and adoption measurement.
• Finance, ERP, or business transformation experience within a complex healthcare, academic medical center, or similarly matrixed environment preferred.
• Project management certification, such as PMP, is required. Agile certification, such as Certified Scrum Master, is required.
• Change management certification such as Prosci, CCMP, or equivalent is preferred.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional finance transformation programs and change initiatives from strategy through execution, sustainment, and benefit realization.
• Strong knowledge of program and project management methodologies, tools, and governance practices, including strategic prioritization, planning, dependency management, budgeting, resource planning, issue management, and status reporting.
• Strong knowledge of organizational change management principles and practices, including stakeholder analysis, change impact assessment, communications planning, training, readiness, resistance management, adoption measurement, and sustainment strategies.
• Ability to establish program structure, governance, decision-making forums, success metrics, and executive communications that enable timely decisions, transparent accountability, and alignment with internal controls and compliance requirements.
• Ability to partner effectively with senior leaders, functional finance owners, technical teams, and operational stakeholders in a complex, highly matrixed organization to align priorities and advance transformation goals.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor communications to executive, operational, and technical audiences and influence decisions across stakeholder groups.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and judgment skills, with the ability to manage risk, resolve ambiguity, balance competing priorities, and drive results through influence and disciplined execution.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop team members while advancing standardized tools, templates, processes, and continuous improvement in program and change management practices.

Licenses and Certifications

• None

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford's patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family's perspective:

• Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care
• Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health
• Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $94.35 - $125.03 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.