This position leads Gillette Children's Financial Planning & Analysis function, setting the strategy for how the organization plans, forecasts, and understands its financial performance. The Director builds and leads a modern FP&A capability - one that uses data, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to give service line and executive leaders faster, sharper insights into performance and shifts the function's time from manual reporting toward forward-looking analysis and decision support. This role owns the annual budget process, rolling forecasts, long-range financial planning, and service line/product line analysis, and partners closely with the CFO, Controller, and operational leaders across the organization.

Compensation & Benefits

The annual salary range for this opportunity is $136,177 to $204,256, with a median salary of $170,216/annually. Pay is dependent on several factors including relevant work experience and internal equity. Salary is just one component of the compensation package for employees. Gillette supports career progression and offers a competitive benefits package, including a retirement saving match, tuition and certification reimbursement, paid time off, and health and wellness benefits for .5 FTE and above.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Lead the organization's financial planning and analysis (FP&A) function, including the annual operating budget, rolling forecasts, long-range financial planning, and strategic scenario modeling.
• Partner with executive and operational leaders to provide financial insights, evaluate new programs and investments, and support informed business decisions.
• Develop and enhance financial reporting, analytics, and decision support tools that improve organizational performance, increase self-service reporting, and leverage automation and AI to drive efficiency.
• Oversee cost accounting, reimbursement analysis, and financial modeling to monitor organizational performance, reimbursement trends, and strategic opportunities.
• Ensure compliance with Medicare, Medicaid, CHGME, MERC, and other reimbursement regulations, including oversight of the annual Medicare Cost Report and third-party payer contract analysis.
• Lead and develop the FP&A team by establishing strategic priorities, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and building advanced analytical capabilities.
• Drive financial process improvements, support organizational quality initiatives, and provide financial education and guidance to leaders across the organization.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, business, or related field.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience leading a financial planning and analysis function in a medium-to-large organization, including direct people management.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven ability to lead a technical function through change - building the case for new tools and processes, and bringing staff and stakeholders along.
• Strong data and analytics fluency: comfortable evaluating and selecting tools, working with data teams, and understanding the tradeoffs of automation and AI-assisted analysis (including where human judgment must remain in the loop).
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, manage to deadlines, and delegate effectively.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a bias toward initiating improvement rather than waiting for direction.
• Proven ability to operate in a matrix structure across multiple departments and stakeholders.
• Ability to model and communicate the operational and financial impact of business decisions, contract terms, and new programs.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing FP&A processes - for example, migrating from spreadsheet-based planning to an EPM/planning platform, building self-service reporting, or deploying predictive/AI-assisted forecasting tools.
• Experience with cost accounting and decision support systems, and with product line/service line revenue and margin forecasting.
• Experience translating complex financial data into clear, actionable recommendations for non-financial executive and operational audiences.

Preferred

• MBA or MHA.
• Experience in a healthcare or hospital finance setting, including exposure to reimbursement methodology (Medicare/Medicaid, MS-DRG/APR-DRG), payer contract modeling, or Medicare Cost Reporting.
• Experience implementing or administering an EPM/planning platform (e.g., Infor, Adaptive Insights, OneStream, Axiom, Prophix) or BI/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
• Familiarity with applying AI/machine learning tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, or similar) to forecasting, variance analysis, or financial reporting automation.
• Experience developing or evaluating alternative payer reimbursement models.