Vice President - Financial Operations

Position Objective: The Corporate Controller and Vice President of Financial Operations serves as Luminis Health’s senior accounting executive and has enterprise-wide responsibility for all Accounting, Treasury, Tax, Payroll, Accounts Payable, and external financial reporting operations. This includes responsibility for the proper payment of debts and expenses, production of periodic financial reports, oversight of treasury operations, cash management and liquidity forecasting, maintenance of an integrated and scalable financial operating model, stewardship of an adequate system of accounting records, and a comprehensive set of controls designed to mitigate financial, regulatory, and operational risk, safeguard assets, enhance the accuracy and integrity of the system’s reported financial results, and ensure compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). This role is responsible for the integrity, sustainability, and resilience of the health system’s financial operations, financial operating infrastructure, and balance sheet. The Corporate Controller and Vice President of Financial Operations ensures the strategic implementation, optimization, automation, maintenance, and performance management of accounting and financial systems to enable timely decision-making, transparency, scalability, audit readiness, enterprise-wide financial discipline, and long-term financial sustainability. As a key member of the senior finance leadership team, this role serves as the executive accountable for enterprise financial operations and functions as a trusted strategic advisor and thought partner to the CFO. The Corporate Controller and Vice President of Financial Operations provides strategic financial counsel to the CFO, Board, Finance and Investment Committee, senior leadership team, and other governance stakeholders on matters related to financial operations, controllership, treasury and liquidity strategy, capital structure support, external financial reporting, financial risk, audit readiness, internal controls, and balance sheet resilience. Essential Job Duties: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Ensures that enterprise-wide financial systems, controls, and processes are in place and deliver highly reliable, accurate, and timely results to executive leadership and operational stakeholders across the organization. Such systems and processes include general ledger and close management, accounts payable, miscellaneous receivable systems, payroll, cash management, liquidity forecasting, and financial reporting platforms, among others. Leads the modernization, integration, and optimization of financial systems and processes, including close acceleration, reporting automation, data governance, and internal controls aligned with best practices for large healthcare systems. Establishes and maintains enterprise accounting policies, financial reporting standards, transactional controls, and financial operating procedures to ensure consistency, compliance, stewardship, and alignment across all entities and business units. Directs treasury operations, including cash positioning, liquidity planning, debt administration, banking relationships, investment coordination, covenant monitoring, and short- and long-term cash flow forecasting in coordination with the CFO and external financial advisors. Engages with the Luminis Health Finance and Investment Committee, Investment Advisor, and Fund Managers to support investment oversight, financial asset stewardship, and related reporting. Partners with the CFO to evaluate and execute financing strategies, debt structure, liquidity planning, capital market opportunities, and related financial strategies to support organizational growth, capital investment, and long-term financial flexibility. Serves as a primary finance liaison to external financial stakeholders, including banks, bondholders, rating agencies, investment managers, external auditors, tax advisors, and other financial partners; ensures timely, accurate, and credible communication on matters within areas of responsibility. Protects assets by designing, implementing, monitoring, continuously strengthening, and enforcing internal controls, ensuring audit readiness and resilience against financial, regulatory, and operational risk. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local legal and regulatory requirements by monitoring existing and emerging legislation, assessing financial impact, enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising senior leadership on needed actions. Owns enterprise financial risk management and audit readiness, coordinating the external audit process and leading responses to audit findings, management letter recommendations, and related financial control matters. Partners with the Corporate Compliance Officer to support internal audit activities and strengthen enterprise governance, risk, and compliance frameworks. Manages all tax planning and compliance with required federal, state, local, payroll, property, and other applicable taxes. Coordinates and/or prepares tax filings, schedules, returns, and supporting documentation, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance. Advises senior leadership on tax strategy, regulatory changes, financial risk exposure, and related matters impacting the organization’s financial position. Leads all aspects of accounting operations, including oversight of all transactions related to general ledger, miscellaneous receivables, payables, payroll, treasury, tax, and external financial reporting. Ensures streamlined financial reporting, accounting, compliance, and controls while putting in place credible, consistent, and useful financial and operational reports that can be produced in a timely manner. Ensures analysis of financial results with respect to operating margin, trends, costs, and comparison to budgets. Monitors and affirms