Director, Finance

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: Yes

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The following duties and responsibilities generally reflect the expectations of this position but are not intended to be all inclusive.

Reporting and Business Process Management Leadership

• Work with teams to identify areas where technology and processes can be deployed to further the core value of Continuous Improvement.

• Provide business problem-solving expertise to ensure successful outcomes of information technology initiatives

• Maintain current knowledge and understanding of information technology to ensure competitive analysis

• Define and prioritize user stories in the development and implementation of new tools and processes

• Analyze ambiguous and complex business problems; create project feasibility studies and business process models

• Define scope, research business assessment capabilities, define potential problems, propose innovative ideas, and recommend actionable next steps

• Gather business future state requirements and identify organizational changes required to realize technology benefits

• Evaluate solution options; perform detailed cost/benefit analysis and impact of creating, implementing and adjusting IT business plans

• Assist in development and presentation of long-term technology solutions and plans

Solution Project Planning

• Direct solution planning

• Oversight and leadership of the Agile development process

• Identify business analytics and incentive metrics to measure results, outcomes and improvements

• Facilitate project communication between all relevant stakeholders in the Village

Other duties and responsibilities as assigned including but not limited to:

• Attend team meetings, phone conferences, and training as needed

• Know, understand, and follow teammate guidelines, employment policies, and department or company procedures

• Travel required: up to 10%

Project and Team Leadership

• Manage direct reports

• Assume full responsibility for cross-functional team formation, management, and execution towards large, critical Village-wide projects and rollouts that impact thousands of teammates

• Must have in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives and balance them with the timelines and resources available to make decisions on setting project scope and deliverables

• Regularly interact with Senior Management to get project guidance and buy-in when necessary

• Responsible for setting project scope and adapting scope throughout the project as necessary

• Responsible for managing budget and staffing of projects

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education, licenses, certifications, and experience required to fulfill the essential duties, include computer skills as required.

• Bachelor's degree in required; MBA preferred

• Experience in enterprise planning and reporting systems and/or data management strongly preferred

• Minimum of 5 years' experience in managing multiple, medium-to-large, cross-functional teams or projects required

• Demonstrated experience in Agile development and project planning and execution strongly preferred

• Intermediate computer skills and proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook required

ESSENTIAL BEHAVIORS, SKILLS, AND ATTITUDES REQUIRED FOR SUCCESS IN THIS POSITION

• High service excellence attitude and behavior

• Professional presence and excellent presentation skills

• Flexibility and comfort with a dynamic work environment

• Commitment to and role model of DaVita's values of Service Excellence, Integrity, Team, Continuous Improvement, Accountability, Fulfillment and Fun with ability to demonstrate those positively and proactively to patients, teammates, management, physicians, and/or vendors (Village Service Partners) in everyday performance and interactions

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior level management and key stakeholders

• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills with an acute ability to listen attentively and to communicate effectively throughout all levels of the organization with audiences of varying degrees of familiarity with technical material

• Demonstrated proficiency in consultative skills when addressing complex inquiries

• Demonstrated ability to work well with cross-functional groups; ability to collaborate across functions and with all levels of the organization

• Demonstrated interpersonal and relationship-building skills; ability to interact positively with teammates at all levels across the company

• Approachable and open

• Demonstrated strengths in teambuilding and leadership skills

• Demonstrated creativity, innovation, and ability to build information technology capacity for a multi-site, national healthcare organization

• Demonstrated ability to work in a team-oriented management structure and to foster a positive work environment

• Demonstrated strengths in organizational, attention-to-detail, follow-through, reasoning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Strong understanding of business process with the ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively at both detail and big-picture levels and to drive projects forward

• Demonstrated ability to understand key financial, clinical and operational drivers affecting business

• Exceptional abstract conceptual thinking abilities

• Ability to proactively identify and analyze issues in the workplace and to identify and implement solutions collaboratively

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to seek out underlying assumptions through probing, questioning, and listening

• Demonstrated ability to create, refine and manage new business processes

• Ability to maximize resources to accomplish key metrics

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, and priorities in a fast-paced, ever-changing and evolving work environment with shifting time frames

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in the written and verbal skills necessary to perform successfully the essential functions, duties, and responsibilities of the position