Director IT Strategy & Operations Financial - EPM & Analytics

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

The Director Healthcare Digital Financial Performance, EPM, Data Analytics Architecture & Visualization is responsible for helping healthcare organizations improve financial performance through enterprise performance management (EPM), advanced analytics, and executive-level visualization. As a senior consulting leader, you will specialize in advising and delivering solutions using Strata (Strata Decision Technology), Workday Adaptive Planning & Oracle EPM integrating these platforms with clinical, operational and financial data to drive margin improvement, cost transparency, planning accuracy and financial accountability.

The Director serves as a trusted advisor to CFOs, finance executives and enterprise leadership leading financial transformation engagements that connect strategy, planning and performance with actionable insights. In this role, you will translate financial and operational challenges into EPM-enabled, data-driven solutions with measurable ROI.

As the Healthcare Technical Consulting Director, you will:

• Design and advise on scalable, auditable financial analytics and EPM architectures leveraging Strata, Workday Adaptive Planning, Oracle EPM, and Microsoft Fabric
• Lead integration of EPM solutions with EHR/EMR, ERP, revenue cycle, claims, and supply chain systems
• Establish standards for financial data models, metric definitions, reconciliation, lineage, and master data alignment
• Ensure solution designs support enterprise financial governance, auditability, and long-term scalability
• Lead development of healthcare FP&A and performance analytics, including cost allocation, contribution margin and profitability, service line and provider performance, workforce productivity, and revenue cycle insights
• Enable rolling forecasts, scenario modeling, and what‑if analysis across planning and performance platforms
• Support value-based care and contract performance analysis using cost and margin insights
• Embed financial insights into finance, operational, and strategic decision‑making workflows
• Design and oversee CFO-level dashboards, board-ready scorecards, and performance management views across EPM and BI platforms
• Translate complex, multi-platform financial data into clear, decision‑ready visual stories
• Define visualization and reporting standards focused on accuracy, transparency, and actionability
• Advise on financial data governance frameworks, including metric standardization, stewardship, and master data alignment
• Ensure compliance with healthcare financial reporting standards, audit requirements, and internal controls.
• Partner with IT, audit, and compliance teams to ensure data integrity, traceability, and security across EPM environments
• Contribute to growth of the healthcare financial analytics and EPM consulting practice through solution development and delivery
• Develop thought leadership on healthcare cost transparency, FP&A maturity, and EPM modernization
• Lead and mentor cross-functional consulting teams, including financial analysts, EPM specialists, data architects, and analytics engineers
• Provide strategic and technical guidance to ensure high-quality, finance-focused delivery

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Healthcare Administration or related field; advanced degree (e.g., MBA) highly desirable
• 10+ years of experience in healthcare financial analytics, EPM or performance management with significant experience in consulting or professional services
• Proven track record delivering margin improvement, cost transparency, and planning transformation initiatives
• Hands-on experience implementing or advising on Strata (Strata Decision Technology) including cost accounting, service line analytics and performance management
• Workday Adaptive Planning experience – budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, scenario modeling
• Oracle EPM experience with financial consolidation, planning, reporting and data governance
• Strong understanding of healthcare domains (RCM, cost accounting, service lines, value-based care)
• Advanced proficiency with BI and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
• Strong SQL and financial data modeling skills with experience integrating EPM platforms with ERP, EHR RCM and enterprise data platforms
• Willingness to travel as required for client engagements

The estimated base salary range for this job is $150,000 - $210,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Director

Country

United States of America