Palo Alto, California
Posted: 07-May-26
Location: Los Angeles, California
Internal Number: 152041112
Make a significant impact on a world-class health organization. Ensure the financial strength and health of a dynamic healthcare leader. Take your professional expertise to the next level. You can do all this and more at UCLA Health.
As one of our Hospital System Finance Managers, reporting to the Hospital System Assistant Director of Budget & Finance, you are part of the team who manages the budgeting, financial planning and operational finance for a $3 billion annual operating budget that includes 4 hospitals and over 600 cost centers. Responsibilities include:
- Develop annual cost centers budget, review and analyze monthly budget variance and trends, identify opportunities to realign cost centers to budget
- Obtain, validate and analyze data for resource, expenditure, capital, strategic planning requests, and present analysis results
- Maintain position control, review cost center labor metrics, and assist cost centers with maintaining resources within metrics
- Work with cost centers to identify opportunities for efficiencies, utilize project management skills to prioritize and implement system, tool, process and other initiative, establish metrics and benchmark to measure progress and success
- Build relationships with cost centers and become their trusted financial advisor
Salary Range: $92,600 - $202,200/annually. Please note that the department's target pay range is $145,000 - $165,000/annually
We’re seeking a results-driven, self-motivated individual with:
- Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or equivalent finance experience
- An advanced degree is preferred
- Eight or more years of experience in financial management is required
- Two or more years of experience in an academic medical center, hospital system, or related field is preferred
- High standards of behavior, performance, quality, credibility, and integrity
- In-depth knowledge of financial elements in healthcare delivery
- Ability to influence, accomplish results and effectively integrate functions with business plans
- Ability to continuously elevate quality, customer service, and productivity
- Exceptional communication, interpersonal, management, prioritizing, problem-solving, and analytical skills
- Ability to develop advanced data queries
- Experience preparing budgets, forecasts, long-range plans, and detailed variance analysis
- Ability to work under time constraints; meeting deadlines and schedules; setting priorities; and working with detailed information
- Understanding of large-scale, integrated client-server/ERP/budgeting and financial planning systems
- EPSI, Strata, Axiom, Kauffman Hall budgeting system experience
UCLA Health is a world-renowned health system with four award-winning hospitals and more than 250 community clinics throughout Southern California, as well as the David Geffen School of Medicine. Through the efforts of our outstanding people, we have become Los Angeles’ trusted provider of exceptional, compassionate patient care. If you’re looking to experience greater challenge and fulfillment in your career, you can at UCLA Health.
