PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS
Requirements and Must Have Criteria
- Leadership and Operational Endurance: Success for this role must have at least 7+ years of experience with demonstrated success as a member in finance with health care, provider, TPA, health plan, or medical device operational accountability.
- Deep Healthcare/Health Plan/TPA with Preferred Hearing Aid Domain Expertise: Mission-oriented and energetic, the person must have a demonstrated track record of success in the US healthcare sector with a passion for finances. The ideal candidate should have experience in a health plan finance department and/or within supplemental benefits.
- Interpersonal, Communication, and Relational Building Skills: Ability to relate to and effectively work with a diverse group of individuals, groups, and people collaboratively and diplomatically. Proven ability to engage internal and external constituencies. The person must possess an uncanny ability to handle and to resolve conflict in a productive and direct manner. Excellent oral and written communications are a must. The person must also exude high energy with a positive manner and a can-do attitude and excellent judgment.
- Strong Financial Acumen: Strong financial concept understanding and ability to drive quality processes tied to financial maturity of business units.
Other Personal Characteristics and Experience
- Ability to simultaneously balance and adjust to multiple changing priorities and make decisions with speed and accuracy.
- A true team player who takes a collaborative approach with leadership and peers and other colleagues. Someone who is able and willing to regularly debate constructively, build consensus, and ultimately align around common objectives. A direct communicator who can foster the same among his/her level peers.
- Understanding that this role, in a start-up involves both hands-on tactical work and activities along with strategic drive.
- A strong solution orientation with a penchant for not only identifying problems but also finding ways of solving them within typical business constraints. Able to think at a higher level of both strategic ‘TrueNorth’ of the business model, along with daily, tactic activities.
- Ability to lead and motivate cross-functional, interdisciplinary teams to achieve strategic goals and educate, guide, study with team to understand the business model, purpose of the TPA and how the operation works in application to the role and Finance needs.
- Mature ability to manage team with a high level of emotional intelligence, keeping team focused on goals and objectives and ensuring professional behavior.
- High degree of initiative, understanding the make-up of a start-up environment being agile and elastic, and ability to work with little supervision.
- Seasoned experience managing a diverse, multifaceted business functional area that has heavy demands, and requires strong agility.
- Understanding of the US Managed Care Market and Third-Party Administrator’s role including government programs and commercial.
- Impeccable values, ethical standards, and a strong moral compass with integrity.
- Business savvy and exceptional financial acumen.
- Confidentiality, time-sensitivity, accuracy, and follow-through continually expected.
- Clear communicator- expected to provide financial coaching to team in layman’s terms to ensure team understand what is required and how to manage their financials of the business units and departments.
- Strong, accelerated mastery of Excel, spreadsheets and formula development associated with the use of financial tools.
- Ability to manage demanding workload and to demonstrate resiliency during stressful or high-stake situations. Strong organizational and analytical skills.
- Strong attention to detail with ability to summarize information in a clear and concise manner.
- Ability to research and interpret regulatory guidance and third-party contracts.
- Professional verbal and written communication skills – phone, in person, for correspondence.
- Ability to work independently, with ambition and bias for action, while also receiving and prioritizing support needs of a team.
Education Requirements
- Four-year college degree from an accredited institution, with emphasis in Finance or Accounting degree required. CPA preferred.
- Master’s with an emphasis in Finance, preferred.
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