Organizational Leadership

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | Healthcare Finance Leadership | AZ, GA & TX

Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

πŸ“ Multiple U.S. Locations | 100% Onsite – Chandler, AZ – Valdosta, GA – El Paso, TX
πŸ’° $140,000 - $180,000 Base Salary + Performance Bonus
🚚 Relocation Assistance Available
πŸ₯ Healthcare Leadership Opportunity
πŸ“ˆ Multiple Openings Available

Lead the Financial Strategy of a Growing Healthcare Organization

An established and rapidly expanding healthcare provider is seeking experienced Chief Financial Officers to join its executive leadership teams across multiple facilities nationwide.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a finance leader who wants to move beyond traditional accounting and become a true strategic partner to the CEO, helping drive operational excellence, financial performance, revenue growth, and long-term organizational success.

As a member of the senior leadership team, you'll play a critical role in shaping both the financial and operational direction of the facility. You'll oversee all aspects of financial management while partnering closely with executive leadership to improve profitability, optimize revenue cycle performance, support growth initiatives, and ensure exceptional fiscal stewardship.

This role is ideal for a hands-on healthcare finance executive who enjoys influencing strategy, leading teams, solving complex challenges, and making a measurable impact on patient care operations.

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

This is not a back-office finance role.

You'll be a key voice at the executive table, helping guide critical business decisions while overseeing all financial operations of a healthcare facility.

The organization continues to invest heavily in growth, leadership development, and internal advancement, creating outstanding opportunities for ambitious finance leaders seeking long-term career progression.

Highlights include:

  • Executive leadership position with direct influence on facility performance

  • True partnership with the CEO and operational leadership team

  • Oversight of the full financial function, including revenue cycle operations

  • Opportunity to drive strategic initiatives and operational improvements

  • Leadership responsibility across multiple business functions

  • Significant visibility with senior corporate leadership

  • Clear pathways for advancement within a large national healthcare network

The Opportunity

As the Facility CFO, you will have overall responsibility for the financial health and performance of the organization while serving as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team.

You will oversee:

  • Financial reporting and accounting operations

  • Revenue cycle management

  • Business office functions

  • Budgeting and forecasting

  • Strategic financial planning

  • Capital planning

  • Department productivity and staffing

  • Financial compliance and internal controls

  • Operational performance analysis

  • New service line financial modeling and evaluation

Your ability to translate financial information into actionable business decisions will be critical to the facility's success.

Key Responsibilities

Executive Financial Leadership

  • Serve as a key member of the senior leadership team

  • Partner closely with the CEO on strategic and operational decision-making

  • Provide financial leadership across all departments

  • Support long-term growth initiatives and business planning efforts

  • Deliver meaningful financial insights that drive performance improvements

Financial Management & Reporting

  • Ensure timely and accurate month-end close processes

  • Oversee preparation of monthly financial statements

  • Maintain accurate balance sheet reconciliations

  • Ensure compliance with corporate accounting policies and internal controls

  • Prepare forecasts, operating reports, certifications, disclosures, and financial analyses

  • Support internal and external audit activities

Revenue Cycle Leadership

  • Direct and oversee the full revenue cycle operation

  • Drive improvements in cash collections and accounts receivable performance

  • Monitor AR days, denials, bad debt, and reimbursement trends

  • Ensure front-end revenue cycle processes are optimized

  • Oversee insurance verification and patient financial responsibility processes

  • Partner with operational teams to maximize net revenue performance

Budgeting, Forecasting & Strategic Planning

  • Lead annual operating budget development

  • Drive long-range financial planning and forecasting

  • Provide ongoing variance analysis and performance reporting

  • Support strategic planning initiatives

  • Develop financial models and pro formas for new services and growth opportunities

  • Lead capital planning and capital expenditure requests

Operational & Departmental Leadership

  • Provide oversight for accounting, patient accounting, health information management, materials management, and other assigned functions

  • Ensure departments are appropriately staffed, trained, and supported

  • Develop managers through financial education and performance coaching

  • Support productivity improvement initiatives

  • Drive accountability across functional areas

Compliance & Risk Management

  • Ensure compliance with applicable healthcare regulations and reimbursement requirements

  • Maintain strong internal controls and approval processes

  • Support cost reporting and reimbursement activities

  • Monitor purchasing practices and vendor contract compliance

  • Ensure proper management of system access and data security controls

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or related field

  • Minimum 5 years of healthcare finance leadership experience

  • Previous experience as a CFO or senior financial leader within a healthcare environment

  • Strong financial analysis and business planning expertise

  • Direct experience with:

    • Month-end close

    • Expense management

    • Budgeting and forecasting

    • Revenue cycle oversight

    • Business office operations

    • FTE management

  • Experience leading and developing teams

  • Advanced Excel and financial systems proficiency

  • Strong communication and executive presentation skills

Highly Preferred

  • Stand-alone inpatient behavioral health experience

  • For-profit healthcare experience

  • Behavioral health facility experience with inpatient beds

  • Experience leading revenue cycle operations within healthcare environments

  • Managed care reimbursement expertise

  • Healthcare cost reporting experience

  • Previous exposure to proprietary healthcare information systems

Preferred Credentials

  • Master's Degree (MBA, MHA, or related field)

  • CPA designation

Leadership Profile

Successful candidates will bring:

  • Executive presence and leadership maturity

  • Strong emotional intelligence

  • Strategic thinking capabilities

  • Excellent business partnership skills

  • Ability to influence across all levels of the organization

  • High ethical standards and professional integrity

  • Exceptional organizational and prioritization skills

  • Comfort operating in fast-paced healthcare environments

Compensation & Benefits

πŸ’° Base Salary: $140,000 - $180,000

Additional Rewards Include:

  • Industry-leading annual performance-based bonus opportunity

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

  • 401(k) with company match

  • Stock-based incentive opportunities

  • Generous paid time off package

  • Paid holidays

  • Leadership development programs

  • Ongoing professional training and education

  • Relocation assistance for qualified candidates

  • Career advancement opportunities within a large national healthcare network

Why Join?

This is an outstanding opportunity for a healthcare finance leader who wants to play a meaningful role in both financial and operational decision-making while helping shape the future of a growing healthcare organization.

You'll have the opportunity to influence strategy, partner directly with executive leadership, lead talented teams, and drive measurable business resultsβ€”all while building a long-term career with an organization that is committed to investing in its people and promoting from within.

If you're a healthcare finance executive looking for your next leadership challenge, we'd love to hear from you.

 

Business Segment Director – Space Mission Systems | TS/SCI Poly | Scottsdale, AZ

Business Segment Director – Space Mission Systems

πŸ“ Location: Scottsdale, Arizona / Remote Flexibility Available
🏒 Work Model: Remote with Travel Requirements
πŸ’Ό Employment Type: Full-Time
πŸ” Security Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI Clearance Required at Time of Hire
πŸ”’ CI Polygraph Preferred (Must be eligible and willing to obtain post-hire if not currently held)

πŸ’° Compensation & Benefits

  • Base Salary: $200,000 – $290,000
    (Depending on experience and qualifications)

  • Full comprehensive benefits package

  • Relocation assistance available for ideal candidates

  • Interview travel reimbursement provided

πŸ“ Location & Travel Expectations

  • The role can ultimately be performed remotely with travel as needed

  • However, the first 3 months will require significant onsite presence in Scottsdale to support onboarding, stakeholder integration, and operational ramp-up

  • Following this initial period, candidates may be based remotely but must be willing to travel when required for program, customer, and leadership engagements

πŸš€ The Opportunity

A leading defense and aerospace organization is seeking a Business Segment Director to lead a portfolio of advanced national security and space mission programs supporting critical missions globally.

The portfolio includes technologies and programs related to:

  • Data networking & secure data transport

  • Cybersecurity & high-assurance cryptography

  • Mission-critical space systems

  • Satellites & embedded mission technologies

  • Secure communications & networking platforms

This executive leadership role oversees high-value development and production programs and is responsible for strategic growth, operational execution, customer engagement, financial performance, and organizational leadership across a highly complex classified portfolio.

The ideal candidate is a proven defense industry executive with deep expertise across space systems, secure technologies, avionics, cybersecurity, cryptographic solutions, or embedded mission systems, combined with strong operational leadership and business development capabilities.

πŸ”§ Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Growth

  • Lead and expand a portfolio of mission-critical defense and space programs

  • Develop and execute short- and long-term business growth strategies

  • Identify and capture adjacent and new business opportunities

  • Drive business development and customer engagement initiatives

  • Support strategic portfolio growth within national security and classified environments

Program & Operational Leadership

  • Oversee execution of complex development and production programs

  • Manage financial, operational, schedule, and customer satisfaction objectives

  • Ensure successful delivery across highly classified and technically complex environments

  • Balance mission urgency, execution discipline, and customer expectations

  • Lead operational performance across multiple programs and business initiatives

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Serve as senior interface to government and defense customers

  • Build trusted relationships across:

    • Space systems organizations

    • Cryptographic and cybersecurity communities

    • Networking and avionics sectors

    • Certification and mission authorities

  • Communicate effectively with executive, operational, and technical stakeholders

  • Represent the business segment with senior internal and external leadership

Organizational & Team Leadership

  • Lead and mentor high-performing engineering and program leadership teams

  • Drive accountability, collaboration, and organizational alignment

  • Support transformation and change management initiatives

  • Foster an inclusive, innovative, and mission-focused culture

  • Build and sustain high-performing cross-functional teams

Technical & Mission Leadership

  • Support programs involving:

    • Satellites and space mission systems

    • Secure networking solutions

    • High-assurance cryptographic systems

    • Embedded mission technologies

    • Secure communications platforms

  • Collaborate across engineering, operations, and customer teams to deliver mission success

  • Support Agile development environments and innovation initiatives

  • Identify opportunities for AI-enabled operational improvements and efficiencies

βœ… Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree required

  • 15+ years of leadership experience within defense contracting or related national security environments

  • Proven experience managing:

    • Complex development programs

    • Production programs

    • Large portfolios or business segments

  • Strong expertise in one or more of the following areas:

    • Space systems

    • Satellites

    • Cryptography

    • Cybersecurity

    • Secure networking

    • National security systems

  • Active TS/SCI clearance required at time of hire

  • Ability and willingness to obtain CI Polygraph clearance

  • U.S. Citizenship required

⭐ Preferred Background

  • Embedded systems or avionics experience

  • Experience supporting compartmented programs

  • Agile development environment experience

  • Existing relationships across aerospace and defense communities

  • Experience operating within large matrix organizations

  • Strong financial and operational leadership capability

  • Experience leading organizational transformation initiatives

πŸ› οΈ Core Skills

βœ” Strategic Planning
βœ” Business Development
βœ” Program Execution
βœ” Space Systems Leadership
βœ” Cryptographic Solutions
βœ” Cybersecurity
βœ” Financial Management
βœ” Customer Relationship Management
βœ” Change Management
βœ” Team Leadership
βœ” Defense Contracting
βœ” Agile Development
βœ” Operational Leadership
βœ” National Security Programs

🎯 Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is an executive-level aerospace or defense leader who:

  • Brings deep expertise across mission-critical national security programs

  • Understands complex space mission systems and secure technologies

  • Has successfully led large organizations through growth and transformation

  • Combines strong operational execution with strategic business leadership

  • Is highly customer-facing and trusted within classified defense environments

  • Thrives in fast-moving, high-accountability mission environments

  • Demonstrates strong leadership presence, communication, and stakeholder management capability

🌟 Why This Role Stands Out

  • Lead highly strategic national security and space mission programs

  • Influence cutting-edge technologies in cybersecurity, cryptography, and secure space systems

  • Significant executive visibility and organizational influence

  • Opportunity to shape the future of secure space mission capabilities

  • Join a highly respected defense and aerospace organization supporting critical global missions

  • Strong long-term growth and leadership opportunity

πŸ“‹ Additional Details

  • Travel required based on program and customer needs

  • Director-level executive leadership position

  • Relocation assistance available for exceptional candidates

  • Candidates must possess an active TS/SCI clearance and be eligible to obtain a CI Polygraph

  • Remote flexibility available following initial onboarding period

Recruiter Summary

This is a highly visible executive leadership opportunity within a premier aerospace and defense environment supporting advanced national security and space mission programs. The position offers the opportunity to lead complex classified portfolios involving secure communications, cybersecurity, cryptography, satellites, and mission-critical technologies while influencing long-term strategic growth and operational direction across the organization.

Ideal candidates will bring a blend of strategic leadership, operational excellence, technical credibility, customer engagement experience, and deep understanding of classified defense environments.