Melville,NY - USA

Position Requirements

The Company:

North American Partners in Anesthesia (NAPA) is the leading single-specialty anesthesia and perioperative management company in the United States. NAPA was founded in 1986 by physicians with a mission to seek excellence in patient care and create value for its clinicians and hospital and ambulatory partners. NAPA employs more than 6,000 clinicians and staff who deliver anesthesia and pain management services at more than 500 facilities in 20 states and the District of Columbia to over three million patients annually.

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, the Vice President FP&A is a strategic business partner who provides value-added financial insight. The VP FP&A’s work-product directly informs key strategic decisions, continuous improvement, and core business operations for a broad group of NAPA stakeholders. Therefore, the VP FP&A must go beyond identifying variances from sequential and forecasted financial results; the VP FP&A will isolate core performance drivers and recommend value- creating or corrective actions. The VP FP&A will regularly communicate these insights with the CFO, other C-suite members, and the Board of Directors. As such, this role requires a seasoned and hands-on FP&A leader who can (i) develop relationships and extract insights from throughout the NAPA organization, particularly with C-suite executives, (ii) lead and develop a team of [10] FP&A professionals, and (iii) also roll up his/her sleeves and dive directly into the data/systems/models/etc. Additionally, the VP FP&A will drive a cohesive and consistent approach to FP&A and Operational Finance across the NAPA organization.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Consistently delivers value-added FP&A and Operational Finance work product and insights such that the CEO, CFO, and all business leaders view the VP FP&A as a strategic partner and expert on financial matters.
• Develops and implements robust procedures that create accurate, timely, relevant, and insightful financial statements, measurements, forecasts, budgets, plans, and business analysis.
• Oversees the monthly management financial reporting package including key financial metrics and performance indicators. Designs and creates actionable other presentations that effectively communicate key financial and operational messages. Understands the importance of both the content being presented as well as the way it is visually shown (including creating/contributing to materials for the Board of Directors, external investors, executive leaders, and others) in order to isolate and highlight core drivers. Provides meaningful variance analysis comparing financial results with all relevant comparison points. Provides business narrative to bring the figures to life and drive action.
• Leverages financial expertise and robust business acumen to provide comprehensive decision support. Actively contributes to the creation of strategic and tactical plans. Provides financial modeling to drive an understanding of the short and long-term financial (P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow) implications for significant business decisions and/or investments. Challenges the assumptions made by the business/operations leaders. Executes insightful scenario planning and sensitivity analytics.
• Creates actionable management reporting and dynamic dashboards to drive a deep understanding of financial and operational performance, using key performance indicators (KPIs). Translates metrics into financial impact to help business/operational leaders prioritize business issues.
• Provides decision support for Client Services in ongoing negotiations with our existing hospital clients and commercial payers, and modeling and underwriting for new organic business and M&A.
• Leads and presents the recurring forecasting process, driving insights into forward-looking performance, including alternate scenarios and contingency plans.
• Collaborates across the organization to drive improvements in cash flow management, with attention to working capital (RCM). Ownership over the full three statement budgeting/forecasting, while collaborating with the Treasury team on the 13-week cash forecast.
• Innovates business analytics, to identify and execute new ways to create true business insights. Constantly identifies new ways to align data with business knowledge and deliver incremental value. Is the BI “champion” focused on driving engagement and value through business leaders.
• Fully leverages available technology and drives the organization to embrace new technologies as they become relevant (i.e., advanced analytics, data visualization, process automation, data warehousing, etc.).
• Demonstrates clear passion and drive to support rapidly growing business which requires insightful analysis to support data-based decision-making.
• Actively identifies ways to eliminate non-value work and leverages automation whenever possible.
• Manages and/or assists with special projects on group-wide initiatives, process simplification as requested.
• Supports all acquisition activity, including due diligence and post-merger integration.

Required Skills & Experience:

• At least 15 years of total business experience with a minimum of 10 years FP&A specific experience with strong knowledge and solid understanding of financial accounting, modeling, and analysis. Private equity experience preferred. The ideal candidate will have worked in a similar type of business/industry in healthcare with disbursed locations and in a fast-paced private equity portfolio company.
• Direct management of the FP&A and/or Operational Finance functions with demonstrated experience handling complex modeling and analysis and accomplishments driving continuous improvements.
• Proven experience being a change agent in implementing company-wide technology and process change within the FP&A function. Previous experience acting as a champion for the implementation of a new business intelligence (BI) capability focused on driving engagement and value through business leaders.
• High aptitude and enthusiasm for complex problem-solving, utilizing financial modeling and analysis, including advanced Excel skills managing large data sets, ERP experience, and best-in-class FP&A systems including Adaptive Insights and others.
• Significant experience partnering with leaders across the organization; helping them all to both understand and drive business performance.

Ideal Candidate:

The successful candidate must bring a high level of ethical, intellectual, professional, and personal values, including:

• Highly motivated by an opportunity to rapidly grow a market-leading business. A strategic thinker regarding competitive strategy, business models and financial management.
• Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively with the CFO and Executive Leadership Team to achieve company business plan and goals. Assertive in style, but respectful of others, and skilled in navigating competing organizational priorities and agendas. Team-oriented with the ability to develop and lead a team and coach others and earn the respect of other team members.
• Executive presence with demonstrated ability to lead change and drive execution. Possess exceptional interpersonal and communication skills needed to effectively share and engage internal stakeholders and clinical areas with the most relevant data. Must contribute and thrive in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• High energy, self-motivated, and hands-on management style working with all levels of the organization to drive performance and continuous improvement using an analytic and metrics-based approach.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree required from an accredited college or university, preferably in finance; MBA preferred but not required.

EEO Statement

North American Partners in Anesthesia is an equal opportunity employer.