[Remote] Strategic Finance Manager

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Clarity Clinic is hiring a Strategic Finance Manager to lead core FP&A and provide forward-looking financial analysis and decision support. The role owns budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial modeling, and finance business partnering while supporting the organization’s finance systems transition.

Responsibilities

• Build and complete the annual budget with department heads, using a driver-based model tied to provider capacity, payer mix, ramp curves, and headcount. The Controller reviews and proposes the final budget to the CEO for approval
• Maintain the rolling monthly forecast, updating revenue, expense, and cash projections, and surface risks and opportunities 60 to 90 days ahead
• Build and maintain site-level P&Ls and provider productivity analysis
• Own the provider and PA demand models and recommended hiring triggers for CEO approval
• Provide hiring timing, spend pacing, and collection assumptions to the Controller's 13-week cash forecast
• Build pro formas for de novo sites and leases, and service-line economics for PHP/IOP, TMS, and Spravato
• Model provider-level profitability (revenue, collections, utilization, and allocated costs) and provider compensation structures
• Analyze payer rate changes, capital planning scenarios, and incentive plan design
• Turn executive questions into models and recommendations quickly
• Complete the monthly variance narrative and P&L bridge once the Controller locks the trial balance, for Controller review
• Present the P&L bridge in the monthly operating review. Department heads present their own KPIs, and this role quantifies the financial impact
• Build and complete board and lender reporting packages for Controller review and sign-off, and present them alongside the Controller
• Serve as the front door for department data and reporting requests. Hold regular check-ins and monthly budget reviews with department heads, and lead site P&L reviews with Center Operations Managers
• Maintain clear definitions for core financial KPIs so finance and operations use the same language
• Define financial dashboard requirements for the Data & Analytics team, covering provider productivity, payer mix, collections performance, no-show impact, CPT-level margin, and cost per visit, and write the commentary
• Pull and structure data from AdvancedMD, Rippling, the general ledger, and Clarity's data platform to answer questions without waiting for a clean dataset
• Track budget against actual and committed spend across all payment channels
• Support the Sage Intacct implementation from the planning side, including cost center design, budget loading, and budget-versus-actual reporting
• Support the close with accrual inputs and flux review of the P&L and balance sheet before the Controller locks the trial balance

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, investment banking, consulting, or transaction advisory, including at least 2 to 3 years in an operating FP&A role
• Personally owned, not supported, each of the following:
• An annual budget end to end, with department or site owners providing inputs to you
• A rolling forecast maintained monthly and presented to an executive team
• Monthly variance analysis, including explaining results to non-finance leaders
• A unit or site-level P&L model, ideally with ramp or maturity curves
• KPI definitions and a recurring reporting package
• At least one board or lender package you built and presented
• Personally built an operating model, not just maintained someone else's
• Working knowledge of accrual accounting and comfort working closely with actuals
• Advanced Excel modeling: driver-based models, scenario analysis, and sensitivity tables
• Experience as a business partner to operational leaders
• Strong written communication and a clear point of view
• Investment banking, consulting, or transaction advisory experience
• Multi-site healthcare services, behavioral health, or PE-backed healthcare background
• AdvancedMD experience
• Familiarity with payer mix and CPT-driven revenue
• Power BI familiarity sufficient to direct dashboard work
• Experience during an ERP transition
• MBA, CFA, or CPA

Benefits

• Bonus Target: 10%
• Remote work; Chicago area strongly preferred
• Growth opportunity as Clarity scales
• Full comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, EAP services and more
• Monthly Wellness Reimbursement to promote your self-care routine and well-being
• 401k match up to 4%
• 15 days of accrued PTO and up to 5 sick/wellness days

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