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UCSF

Public health sciences university in San Francisco

Finance Director

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$148.7k - $360.9k
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
San Francisco, CA, USA
In PersonMust be flexible to work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
Finance & BankingCorporate Finance & FP&A

About the job

Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree in Finance or another related field is required.
  • At least 7 years of experience in finance, budgeting, or public accounting focused on hospital clients is required.
  • Understanding of finance in an academic medical center environment, including financial statements, volume-based forecasting, and the hospital-faculty practice relationship.
  • Strong leadership, relationship-building, influencing, and negotiation skills, including the ability to work effectively across management and staff levels.
  • Ability to communicate proficiently, verbally and in writing, using both technical language and layman's terms.
  • Ability to interact effectively with all levels of management and staff.
  • Ability to work independently with little guidance and exercise analytical and political judgment when working with administrators, physicians, and managers in an academic healthcare institution.
  • Ability to synthesize information quickly and develop recommendations for senior leaders.
  • Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance in sensitive situations.
  • Ability to think conceptually and formulate pragmatic, effective solutions.
  • Ability to achieve results in a virtual and matrixed team environment.
  • Experience developing and mentoring staff.
  • Ability to work under time constraints, meet deadlines and schedules, set priorities, and work with detailed information.
  • Computer proficiency in an established financial reporting tool.
  • Excellent Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint skills.
  • Must be flexible and willing to work at all UCSF Medical Center locations.
Responsibilities
  • Support the Community Network Chief Financial Officer in strategic revenue growth and governance, analytical support for resource utilization, operational action plans, and technological enhancements.
  • Partner with operations to create and analyze volume budgets, track performance against budget, and recommend corrective actions.
  • Provide business-case guidance and ensure goals and priorities are clearly articulated and aligned with organizational goals.
  • Maintain and create service-line assignment logic and related reporting.
  • Deliver the business-line budget and provide strategic leadership and governance for direct cost centers associated with the Community Network business line.
  • Collaborate with shared-service and entity finance leaders to develop and enhance reporting, ad hoc queries, and dashboards for budgeting, planning, and operational financial management.
  • Coordinate, prioritize, and review business-line capital projects; participate in capital committee work and partner with strategy and executives on capital decisions, allocation, and return-on-investment analysis.
  • Interpret and analyze business and service-line reports to inform operations and strategy, and deliver financial results and board materials to leadership.
  • Manage the financial performance of direct cost centers associated with a business line and administer monthly operational reviews.
  • Prepare ad hoc service-line reporting, develop action plans, and follow up; review benchmarks and reports to guide action planning and budget targets.
  • Develop benchmarking models with operations, review demographic surveys, and support specialty data submissions.
  • Identify opportunities and monitoring responsibilities for value-improvement initiatives related to Hyde Hospital.
  • Provide strategic leadership and governance for major investments, including analyzing return on investment, presenting results, prioritizing investments, assessing new initiatives and program expansions, and reporting program impacts.
  • Analyze initiatives including affiliations and joint-venture projects; collaborate with Strategy and Faculty Practice leaders on physician-network expansion.
  • Provide data and costing governance for business-line reporting and annual project priorities; own business-line data, review and sign off on data governance, and participate in system upgrades and testing.
  • Participate in data definition and review costing methodology; verify cost-accounting report integrity and investigate unusual results.
  • Perform budgeting and other management-related administrative tasks; plan and direct team activities, allocate resources, and communicate progress and status.
  • Hire, counsel, train, and, when necessary, terminate staff; develop and deliver performance appraisals.
  • Lead change processes, improve processes and customer satisfaction, and perform other assigned duties.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's or other advanced degree is preferred.
  • Experience with EPSi or another hospital decision-support software application is desirable.

About the company

UC San Francisco is a public research university in San Francisco focused solely on health sciences, combining professional education with biomedical research and patient care. Its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy train clinicians and scientists, while teams investigate cancer, immunology, genomics and neuroscience. UCSF Medical Center and Benioff Children's Hospitals connect clinical care with faculty research and training, and university clinics serve patients across Northern California. Founded in 1864, UCSF is the University of California campus dedicated to graduate and professional education and biomedical research, based in San Francisco.

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10,001+

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Founded

1864

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