Manager, Corporate Finance

<p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:14.0pt">At Duke Health, we're driven by a commitment to compassionate care that changes the lives of patients, their loved ones, and the greater community. No matter where your talents lie, join us and discover how we can advance health together.</span></p><br><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Location:</strong> Durham, NC (Flexible: Remote or Hybrid options available) </span></p><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Company:</strong> Duke University Health System (DUHS)</span></p><h3> </h3><h3><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Occupational Summary</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Serve as a Manager in Corporate Finance, primarily responsible for managing the cost accounting or the patient data reporting processes as assigned. This role requires a highly analytical leader capable of driving accuracy and efficiency within a massive, multi-billion-dollar health system environment.</span></p><h3> </h3><h3><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Core Responsibilities (Work Performed)</strong></span></h3><ul><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Process Management:</strong> Manage processes over the assigned area, ensuring that tasks are completed timely and accurately based on the established monthly calendar.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Audit & Reporting:</strong> Manage the monthly audit, analysis, and reporting completed by the Financial Analysts. Prepare comprehensive written reports and trend analyses.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Reconciliation:</strong> Perform strict system reconciliations to source systems and documents.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Ad-Hoc Analysis:</strong> Manage the coordination of ad-hoc requests, ensuring complex analyses are completed as needed and within tight deadlines.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Team Leadership:</strong> Supervise, review the work of, and train two (2) assigned Financial Analysts.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Staff Development:</strong> Develop professional staff and recommend various personnel actions, including (but not limited to) hiring, performance appraisals, transfers, promotions, and vacation schedules.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>General Duties:</strong> Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein.</span></p></li></ul><h3> </h3><h3><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Candidate Profile)</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">To be successful in this aggressive growth and acquisition phase, the ideal candidate must possess the following profile:</span></p><ul><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Scale & Ambiguity:</strong> Proven track record of managing financial processes for multi-billion-dollar projects (supporting a $9B operating budget). Must be highly adaptable and comfortable managing through ambiguity.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Project Management & Work Ethic:</strong> Ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects with minimal supervision. Must possess the flexibility and willingness to work extended hours on critical projects to meet or exceed strict deadline expectations.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Communication & Stakeholder Management:</strong> Interact on a routine basis with leaders at all levels of the Health System and University, requiring excellent, executive-level oral and written communication skills.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Collaboration:</strong> Coordinate efforts with other Finance and Operations departments across the Health System, requiring exceptional interpersonal, partnership, and team-building skills.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Technical & AI Proficiency:</strong> Significant analytical and problem-solving skills. Experience utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve process efficiencies is required. Familiarity with financial systems such as <strong>Strata</strong> and <strong>Axiom</strong> is a strong plus.</span></p></li></ul><h3> </h3><h3><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Minimum Qualifications</strong></span></h3><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Education</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Bachelor’s degree required, demonstrating strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills with rigorous attention to detail.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Note: An MBA is considered highly valuable for this specific role and is strongly preferred over a standard bachelor's degree.</em></span></p></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Experience</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Generally requires eight (8) years of progressive accounting, financial management, and/or financial auditing experience, including deep knowledge of financial reporting.</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><em>Substitution:</em> A Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) or a related field may be substituted for two (2) years of experience (effectively requiring 6 years of experience).</span></p></li><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Experience in an academic medical center or complex healthcare system is strongly preferred.</span></p></li></ul><p> </p><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Degrees, Licensures, Certifications</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Master’s Degree or CPA preferred.</span></p></li></ul><br><br> <br> <div><p> Duke is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy related conditions), sexual orientation or military status. </p> <br> <br> <div><p> Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values. </p> <br> <header> <strong>Essential Physical Job Functions:</strong> </header> <div><p> Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department. </p> <br></div></div></div>

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