Sutter Health is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit healthcare systems, which includes award-winning physician organizations, acute care hospitals, surgery centers, medical research facilities and specialty services. Our team of 68,000 doctors, employees and volunteers proudly cares for Northern California. 

Our facilities and care centers are located in large, urban cities and small, rural communities, from the Pacific Coast to the San Joaquin Valley. You’ll find us in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, the snowy mountains of the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe, Napa Valley, Yosemite and the coastal redwoods. We even have an affiliate in Hawaii.

Join us and be part of a dedicated group of professionals committed to putting patients’ needs first and achieving the highest levels of quality, access and affordability.

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Company Size: 10,001+ employees

Sutter Health

Savvy Admin PROD

We are so glad you are interested in joining Sutter Health!

**Organization**

SHSO-Administrative Payroll

**Position Overview**

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (SMCS), a flagship hospital of Sutter Health—Northern California’s largest health network with 28 acute care facilities—features 523 beds across two specialty centers: a 242-bed center for women’s and children’s services and a 281-bed center for general medical/surgical care. Recognized for excellence with a 90% patient satisfaction rate and an “A” grade from Leapfrog for Safety and Quality, we offer a prime opportunity to help lead one of the nation's top hospitals within a national top 15 health system for overall quality.

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (SMCS) will provide financial leadership and direction to the management and leadership teams, physicians, and SMCS staff with a key focus on driving affordability to meet long term goals. Achieving transformational change is critical to the organizations long term success. The position serves as the entity financial innovation leader with the goal of transforming the structure and operations of the organization. The finance functions are performed at the system level, the area level, and the entity level. System Level Finance functions include Reimbursement, treasury, quarterly reporting to bondholders, audit coordination, tax return preparation, managed care contracting, reporting to Sutter Health management and the Sutter Health board. Area Level Finance functions include Overall responsibility for all Finance and Accounting functions. Financial statement preparation, general accounting, accounts payable, payroll, statistical reporting, and budget preparation, reporting to the system, reporting to management, and reporting to the Board. SMCS Level Finance functions include Operational improvements, financial forecasts, feasibility studies and other financial analysis. Management of SMCS operational units as defined.

**Education**

**Job Description **:

- Bachelor's Business, Finance or Accounting required.

- Master’s degree in Business, Hospital, Healthcare Administration or equivalent from an accredited college or university preferred.

- CPA preferred.

**Experience**

- Seasoned experience as would normally be expected from a minimum of ten years combined health care, financial management, and operational improvement experience including multi-entity, managed care and an integrated health care delivery environment is required.

- Experience in providing analytic support and maintaining cost-effective and long-term financial viability of health care operations.

- Prior experience in demonstrating effective communication skills and interpersonal relation skills is required.

- Prior experience developing and managing staff in the current competitive health care environment.

**Knowledge**

- Must have a thorough knowledge of a multi-entity integrated health care delivery system.

- Extensive knowledge of the dynamics of health care financial relationships, to include physicians/facilities in a tax-exempt environment; managed care environment, including capitation; private inurement laws; anti-trust laws; Medicare fraud and abuse laws.

- Must have a thorough understanding of GAAP and process costing in a health care environment.

- In-depth working knowledge of health care departments emphasizing an understanding of finance, planning, physician relations, and a strong working knowledge of patient care and human resources.

**Skills**

- Must have the skills, confidence, and ability to lead the effort to transform and restructure the organization to optimize operational and financial success.

- This position serves a key leadership role in the operations and as such requires that the incumbent engenders a high level of trust, credibility, and confidence among superiors, peers, and staff from all areas of operation.

- This position requires superior analytical, leadership, interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. The incumbent must be innovative and creative in designing, developing, and monitoring financial systems and programs. Requires strong microcomputer modeling skills, ability to query, download, and manipulate financial and statistical information from computer systems. In addition, the position requires an incumbent who employs tact and discretion and is motivated, self-directed, confident and a self-starter.

- Understanding of and experience with Lean or other process improvement philosophies and methodologies desired.

**Job Shift**

Days

**Schedule**

Full Time

**Days Of The Week**

Monday - Friday

**Weekend Requirements**

As Needed

**Benefits**

Yes

**Unions**

No

**Position Status**

Exempt

**Weekly Hours**

40

**Employee Status**

Regular

Sutter Health is an equal opportunity employer EOE/M/F/Disability/Veterans.

Pay Range is $340,000.00 to $460,000.00 / annual salary

~~The compensation range may vary based on the geographic location where the position is filled. Total compensation considers multiple factors, including, but not limited to a candidate’s experience, education, skills, licensure, certifications, departmental equity, training, and organizational needs. Base pay is only one component of Sutter Health’s comprehensive total rewards program. Eligible positions also include a comprehensive benefits package. ~~

Chief Financial Officer, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento

Find Chief Financial Officer (CFO) jobs in Sacramento, CA with Savvy's AI Recruiter. Browse opportunities from top companies and get matched with roles that match your skills using our intelligent recruitment system.