Senior Director, Healthcare Decision Support & Financial Performance Advisory
Huron Consulting · Remote · Chicago, United States +10 · 1d ago
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 Senior Director serves as a trusted advisor to CFOs, finance executives, operational leaders, and enterprise analytics teams. The role combines healthcare financial expertise, strategic advisory, performance improvement, decision support, digital transformation, and client relationship leadership to deliver measurable value.
ROLE AT A GLANCE
• Executive Advisory: C-suite counsel and transformation leadership
• Financial Performance: Margin, profitability, planning, and productivity
• Decision Support: Analytics, reporting, governance, and insight
• Engagement Leadership: Delivery quality, economics, risk, and outcomes
• Growth: Client relationships, proposals, and market development
• People Leadership: Team development, coaching, and practice building
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Client Leadership & Advisory
• Serve as an executive advisor to healthcare CFOs, finance leaders, strategy executives, and operational stakeholders.
• Lead assessments of finance, decision support, analytics, reporting, profitability, and performance management capabilities.
• Develop enterprise performance-improvement roadmaps aligned with organizational strategy, financial goals, and measurable value.
• Facilitate executive workshops and present findings, recommendations, and business cases to senior leadership and boards.
Financial Performance Transformation
• Lead initiatives focused on margin improvement, cost reduction, service-line profitability, labor productivity, expense management, planning, forecasting, budgeting, and strategic investment analysis.
• Design performance-management frameworks, management reporting, KPI definitions, and governance models.
• Help clients improve financial visibility and establish disciplined processes that sustain results.
Decision Support & Analytics
• Advise clients on enterprise decision support strategies, operating models, and capability roadmaps.
• Design executive dashboards and management reporting that connect financial, operational, and strategic measures.
• Lead profitability analytics across service lines, physicians, patients, and payers.
• Establish data governance, reporting standards, metric definitions, and performance-measurement processes.
• Partner with data and technology teams to modernize analytics, EPM, ERP, and cloud-enabled data solutions.
• Translate complex analysis into clear executive insights and actionable business recommendations.
LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS
Program & Engagement Leadership
• Direct multiple complex consulting engagements and enterprise transformation programs.
• Manage engagement scope, economics, staffing, quality, risk, executive communications, and client satisfaction.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams spanning finance, analytics, technology, implementation, and performance improvement.
• Create clear accountability for outcomes and ensure delivery excellence from assessment through implementation and adoption.
Business Development & Market Leadership
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with current and prospective clients.
• Identify client needs and shape differentiated solutions that integrate advisory, data, technology, and implementation capabilities.
• Lead proposal development, executive presentations, solution design, and strategic pursuits.
• Contribute to thought leadership, offering development, alliances, and market-facing activities.
• Support account growth, cross-practice collaboration, and achievement of practice revenue goals.
People & Practice Leadership
• Recruit, mentor, coach, and develop consulting managers, directors, and engagement teams.
• Build high-performing teams grounded in collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and client service excellence.
• Advance reusable methods, tools, intellectual capital, and delivery standards across the practice.
• Demonstrate Huron leadership behaviors and actively support the professional growth of colleagues.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Experience
• 12+ years of consulting, healthcare finance, decision support, analytics, or performance-improvement experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale healthcare transformation initiatives, complex engagements, or equivalent enterprise programs.
• Demonstrated success advising C-suite executives and senior finance, operational, and analytics leaders.
• Deep understanding of healthcare provider finance, operations, decision support, and performance management.
• Proven ability to lead teams, manage engagement economics, and develop client relationships.
• Ability to travel based on client and business needs.
Preferred Expertise
• Healthcare decision support, cost accounting, service-line profitability, and patient-level analytics.
• Financial planning and analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and enterprise performance management.
• Labor productivity, operational performance improvement, expense management, and margin transformation.
• Healthcare analytics, data strategy, data governance, and reporting modernization.
• ERP, EPM, decision support, and cloud data platform transformations.
• Revenue cycle, payer, physician, clinical, or supply-chain analytics.
Education & Credentials
• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, business, healthcare administration, analytics, or a related field required.
• MBA, MHA, MPH, CPA, or another relevant advanced degree or professional credential preferred.
Travel & Home Location
• Travel requirements vary by project, and candidates must be willing to travel weekly as needed up to 80% (Monday - Thursday)
• Candidates may live anywhere in the contiguous 48 states near a major airport
SUCCESS PROFILE
The successful candidate is a strategic healthcare finance and analytics leader who connects enterprise strategy, financial performance, operational improvement, data, and technology into actionable transformation programs. This leader is equally credible in the boardroom, with finance and operational executives, and alongside analytics and technology teams, helping clients convert data into insight and insight into measurable value.
Core Leadership Characteristics
• Trusted Advisor: Builds credibility and guides executive decisions.
• Outcome Oriented: Connects recommendations to measurable performance.
• Enterprise Thinker: Integrates strategy, finance, operations, data, and technology.
• Commercial Leader: Shapes opportunities and grows enduring relationships.
• Team Builder: Develops talent and mobilizes multidisciplinary teams.
• Clear Communicator: Makes complex issues accessible and actionable
The estimated base salary for this job is $250,000 - $325,000. 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 $325,000 - $422,500. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs.
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