Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance Position Profile
ABOUT DHR HEALTH
DHR Health is the largest physician-owned hospital and offers some of the most comprehensive medical care on the U.S. Southern Border. This 530-bed facility is the only level 1 trauma center in Southern Texas. From general acute care services and preventative health programs to graduate medical education and clinical research, at DHR Health over 700 physicians and more than 1,200 nurses dedicate themselves to offering a full continuum of care in over 70 different sub-specialties. DHR Health is addressing all of the health care needs of its community while eliminating the need to seek health care services outside the region, which has transformed DHR Health into a national best practice model minority-serving hospital. Their patient-centric approach means that every patient that shows up will get treated.
DHR Health was founded in 1997 by four surgeons to help over 1.4 million residents resolve limited healthcare access challenges in a community that lacked public and county hospitals. Becoming a comprehensive health system in 2013, DHR continues to be the premier healthcare provider in South Texas and one of the top three largest employers of Hidalgo County.
What sets DHR Health apart is the fact that it is owned and managed by actively practicing physicians. As a result, decisions critical to patient care are made by physicians who are on the front lines treating patients. This allows the hospital to move quickly to bring necessary technologies and high quality healthcare into the community. Most importantly, the rapid and tremendous growth at DHR Health and its successes reflect the continued dedication and support of its partners, employees, and medical staff members.
MISSION
DHR Health’s mission is to improve the well-being of those they serve with a commitment to excellence: every patient, every encounter, every time.
VISION
DHR Health’s vision is to create a world-class health system to advance medicine and increase access for the communities they serve by empowering caregivers to heal through compassion, knowledge, innovation, integrated care and excellence.
COMMITTED TO EXCELLENCE
DHR Health is known for patient-centered care, world-class clinical expertise, and leading innovation. It began — and goes on to this day — with their mission to excel in every way, with every encounter.
IN THE NEWS
- DHR Health to Open a 40-acre Medical Facility in Starr County
- DHR Health Celebrates Second Annual Junior Clinical Internship Commencement Program
- DHR Health to Lead Statewide Breast Cancer Study
- DHR Health "Let's Go Fishing for Hope" Tournament
- DHR Health has the only Certified Urgent Cares in the Rio Grande Valley
ABOUT EDINBURG, TX
DHR Health is located in the wonderful city of Edinburg, TX. Immerse yourself in the community and enjoy special events that highlight this region’s vibrant culture. Explore leading entertainment at the largest indoor venue in South Texas, the Bert Ogden Arena. Watch a live United Soccer League game or enjoy live performances at The H-E-B Park sports facility.
Venture outdoors and explore Edinburg’s many parks, and trails, as well as the Edinburg Scenic Wetlands & World Birding Center. The Edinburg Scenic Wetlands and World Birding Center offer 40 acres of scenic wetlands in the middle of an urban landscape.
The surrounding cities of McAllen and Brownsville recently ranked as #3 and #4, in U.S. News and World Report's "Top 10 Best Places to Live" for quality of life. Additionally, all five McAllen high schools are consistently ranked in the U.S. News and World Report's "Best High School Rankings".
POSITION OVERVIEW
The Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance will work directly with financial management strategy, accounting, and continuous improvement and contribute to the development of DHR Health’s strategic direction. In addition to these components, the SVP will develop policies and procedures in both finance and operational areas that are in alignment with and advance equity, inclusion, innovation, and learning. The Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance role is designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Promotes the facility's mission, vision, and values by effectively communicating them to others. Considers mission, vision, and values in developing services, standards, and practices.
- Demonstrated ability to translate an organization's mission into an overall finance/operations strategy focused on meeting needs as the basis for actionable, measurable plans.
- Contribute to the development of DHR Health's strategic goals and objectives and the organization's overall management, keeping the Executive Leadership team informed of all critical issues.
- Advise the Executive Leadership Team on financial planning, budgeting, cash flow, investment priorities, and policy matters.
- Ensure DHR Health is advancing its strategy, delivering status reports to leadership.
- Partner with finance, accounting, and materials management to direct administrative and operational procedures, including treasury management.
- Engage with outside financial partners including financial institutions, auditors, and tax preparers.
- Plan and execute the annual budget process.
- Prepares, reviews, and analyzes financial studies and reports to trend and identify operational and financial opportunities. Presents financial reports
- Has a deep understanding of the state and federal reimbursement rules and regulations.
- Has the ability to appropriately project funding from all payers.
- Design and implement standardized financial and operational reporting throughout the Health System, working closely with the Chief Medical Information Officer.
- Acts as a resource to assigned staff and is able to escalate issues as needed.
- Selects, trains, motivates, supervises, and evaluates assigned staff to ensure maximum utilization of individual and group capabilities while providing optimal service to both internal and external customers. Ensures that assigned employees receive opportunities to further their knowledge.
- Research new trends, markets, potential areas of growth and development for the Health System.
- Familiar with all regulatory areas and agencies including mandatory reporting.
- Other duties as assigned.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
The successful candidate’s background includes:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required
- Master’s degree preferred
- CPA license preferred
- 10+ years of progressive servant leadership experience leading a highly diverse workforce
- 5+ years of progressive experience managing acute/ambulatory clinic operations preferred
- Experience working with lean and continuous improvement concepts, and project management, development, and implementation
- Strong working knowledge of hospital, outpatient and ambulatory operations and workflow.
- Mission-driven professional with agility, energy, and aptitude to excel in a dynamic, start-up like organization in alignment with DHR Health values.
- Track record leading end-to-end projects, managing a high volume of work with efficiency, and being able to execute effectively, shift priorities and solve problems creatively.
- Mentoring and coaching experience to a team with diverse levels of expertise and ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers.
- Demonstrated ability to engage in both strategic and tactical thinking related to overall organizational leadership.
CRITICAL COMPETENCIES FOR SUCCESS
Reporting Acumen and Team Orientation
The Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance will be charged with elevating the overall revenue, profitability, and talent of DHR Health through various efforts. Through the development of improved processes and training, this individual will work to foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and results. Working at this organization requires a hands-on, team-oriented individual who has broad-based credibility and is capable of consistently motivating people to action. An exceptional leader, who builds, inspires, and coaches teams with a passion for the business, while forging close working relationships with other leaders throughout the organization.
Results-Oriented
The Senior Vice President of Corporate Finance must be performance-driven and able to provide measurable results. The successful candidate will be resourceful, action-oriented, as well as a flexible and decisive leader who establishes clarity during distractions to produce results in a timely fashion.
Communication
This individual should possess very strong communication, listening, and persuasion skills, to truly partner with the leadership team. They must be an adept writer as well as be comfortable, dynamic, and an effective presenter in front of both external and internal audiences including employees, senior management, and clients. They should be comfortable with transparency and collaboration, and be able to inspire, lead, and develop their team and others around them.
Critical Thinking
This individual must be intellectually sharp and use critical thinking to make or influence decisions while demonstrating outstanding business judgement. They will be comfortable creating the new and the different.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Title: Managing Director Email: mkarr@comharpartners.com Direct: (470) 517-9007 Mobile: (704) 657-9531
Title: Director
Email: mlayton@comharpartners.com
Direct: (312) 313-8454
Mobile: (224) 805-9369
