Healthcare Financial Advisory Services Director (Nationwide)

Huron Consulting Group

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.

When healthcare organizations are managing escalating financial stress, Huron recognizes the response must be urgent and direct. Huron's industry-leading Healthcare Financial Advisory Services team works with healthcare leaders to prevent financial management missteps and prioritize business decisions that reset the financial trajectory of their organizations. Huron assists clients through improved planning, operations and managing through crises.

Solutions tailored to a variety of situations :

• Business and financial planning, projections and scenario analyses
• Interim management / strategy execution
• Business assessments & due diligence
• Restructuring & turnaround
• Executive / Board advisory
• CFO support solutions
• Liquidity forecasting and management
• Working capital management
• Valuations
• FP&A assistance for profit improvement

Directors are senior leaders within Huron's Healthcare Financial Advisory Services practice. They are responsible for leading complex client engagements, serving as trusted advisors to C-suite and board-level stakeholders, and driving the growth of the practice through client expansion and new business development. Directors bring deep healthcare financial expertise, strong executive presence, and a proven ability to translate complex financial issues into decisive action. They build long-term client relationships, oversee multiple engagements, mentor and develop senior team members, and contribute to the strategic direction of the practice.

Qualifications

Minimum of 10 years of professional experience, including significant consulting experience in financial advisory roles serving healthcare provider clients such as health systems and hospital or acute care organizations. Deep expertise in healthcare provider finance, including capital planning, liquidity management, and key operational and financial performance drivers. Experience leading restructuring, turnaround, performance improvement, or similarly rigorous advisory engagements in high-stakes client environments. Demonstrated ability to lead complex, multi-workstream engagements, including oversight of project teams, senior client relationships, and executive-level deliverables. Proven business development capabilities, including expanding existing client relationships, originating new work, and contributing to proposal development and practice growth. Advanced financial analysis and modeling expertise, including evaluation of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements; valuation; pro forma financial modeling; discounted cash flow analysis; and strategic financial planning. Ability to synthesize complex financial analyses and translate them into clear, actionable recommendations for C-suite and board-level audiences. Strong experience overseeing healthcare financial reporting and analysis, including liquidity forecasting, cash flow management, operational improvement and overhead analyses, and executive-level presentations and pitch materials. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the executive presence required to influence senior stakeholders and guide decision-making. Collaborative, team-oriented leadership style with a strong commitment to mentoring and developing senior managers and junior professionals. Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field. Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

Preferred

MBA or other advanced degree. CPA, CIRA, CTP, CFA, CDB certification (or active pursuit of one or more).

Travel & Location

Travel requirements vary by project; candidates must be willing to travel up to 80% on a weekly basis. Candidates may reside anywhere in the contiguous United States near a major airport.

The estimated base salary range for this job is $200,000 - $270,000. 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 total estimated compensation range for this job is $250,000 - $364,500. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron's benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.

Huron Consulting Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage to employees and dependents; a 401(k) plan with a generous employer match; an employee stock purchase plan; a generous Paid Time Off policy; and paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Our Wellness Program supports employee total well-being by providing free annual health screenings and coaching, bank at work, and on-site workshops, as well as ongoing programs recognizing major events in the lives of our employees throughout the year. All benefits and programs are subject to applicable eligibility requirements. Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.