Position Title: 

The Chief Financial Officer serves as a key member of the executive leadership team and is responsible for the organization’s financial strategy, fiscal stewardship, and long-term sustainability. The CFO provides forward-looking financial leadership while ensuring the integrity of accounting, reporting, budgeting, treasury, internal controls, compliance, and risk-management practices.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic and Executive Leadership

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the Chief Executive Officer, executive leadership team, and Board of Directors.

• Develop and execute a financial strategy aligned with the organization’s mission, strategic plan, growth priorities, and long-term sustainability.

• Evaluate financial implications, risks, and returns associated with new services, capital investments, partnerships, contracts, technology initiatives, and expansion opportunities.

• Translate complex financial information into clear recommendations for executive and nonfinancial audiences.

• Lead scenario planning and financial modeling to support decision-making in changing economic, reimbursement, regulatory, and operating environments.

• Promote enterprise-wide accountability, collaboration, transparency, and sound stewardship of organizational resources.

Financial Planning and Performance

• Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and capital-planning processes.

• Establish financial performance measures and regularly report results against budgets, forecasts, strategic priorities, and industry benchmarks.

• Monitor revenue, expenses, liquidity, cash flow, margins, productivity, and capital requirements.

• Identify financial and operational trends, risks, and improvement opportunities and recommend timely corrective actions.

• Partner with department leaders to strengthen financial literacy, resource planning, cost management, and performance accountability.

• Develop financial models for major strategic, operating, workforce, service-line, and capital decisions.

Accounting, Reporting, and Controls

• Ensure accurate, timely, and complete financial statements and management reports in accordance with applicable accounting standards and organizational policies.

• Oversee general accounting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll-related financial controls, fixed assets, treasury, tax reporting, and financial systems.

• Maintain an effective system of internal controls to protect organizational assets and ensure the reliability of financial information.

• Lead the annual audit process and maintain productive relationships with external auditors, financial institutions, insurers, advisors, and other business partners.

• Ensure appropriate documentation, approval authority, segregation of duties, and financial-policy governance.

• Present financial performance, forecasts, audit results, risks, and recommendations to the Board and applicable Board committees.

Treasury, Capital, and Risk Management

• Oversee cash management, banking relationships, investments, debt, credit facilities, reserves, and liquidity planning.

• Develop recommendations regarding capital structure, reserve levels, financing strategies, and major expenditures.

• Ensure adequate insurance coverage and support a coordinated enterprise risk-management approach.

• Identify and manage material financial, operational, contractual, cybersecurity, fraud, and business-continuity risks.

• Support emergency preparedness and continuity planning to protect critical financial and business operations.

Compliance and Governance

• Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local financial requirements, contractual obligations, grant conditions, tax requirements, and organizational policies.

• Partner with Legal, Compliance, People and Culture, Information Technology, and operational leaders to maintain effective governance and risk controls.

• Support the Board’s fiduciary responsibilities through accurate reporting, transparent communication, and timely disclosure of material financial matters.

• Monitor changes in accounting standards, healthcare finance, reimbursement practices, tax requirements, and other developments that may affect the organization.

• Coordinate qualified legal, tax, audit, and regulatory review when specialized guidance is required.

Operational and Technology Partnership

• Partner with operations leaders to improve productivity, supply-chain performance, inventory management, procurement, contract management, and service-delivery economics.

• Strengthen the use of data, analytics, dashboards, and performance indicators across the organization.

• Oversee or sponsor financial-system modernization, automation, data-governance, and reporting-improvement initiatives.

• Evaluate the financial and operational impact of enterprise technology investments.

• Ensure financial processes and systems are scalable, secure, efficient, well controlled, and responsive to organizational needs.

People Leadership

• Build, develop, and retain a high-performing finance team with the capabilities needed to support the organization’s current and future needs.

• Establish clear expectations, performance measures, development plans, succession strategies, and accountability practices.

• Create an inclusive environment in which employees are respected, supported, and encouraged to contribute ideas.

• Model the organization’s values and demonstrate integrity, sound judgment, transparency, and service-oriented leadership.

• Collaborate with People and Culture on workforce planning, compensation budgeting, benefit-cost management, organizational design, and executive succession planning.

Education and Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Economics, or a related discipline.

• Significant progressive leadership experience in finance, accounting, or enterprise financial management, including experience at the executive or senior-leadership level.

• Demonstrated experience leading budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, audit, treasury, internal controls, and strategic financial planning.

• Experience advising executive leaders and presenting financial matters to a Board of Directors or Board committee.

• Demonstrated success leading teams and partnering across operational and administrative functions.
  

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EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT

Gulf Coast Blood is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants for positions are considered without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, age, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, military status, protected veteran status, disability status, genetic testing results, or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable law, statute, regulation or Executive Order.