Director – Finance Systems and Accounts Payable will provide leadership, strategic direction, and broad management to establish financial systems administration, financial data governance, ERP system implementation and maintenance, finance related training and communications, as well as provide strategic leadership and direction for the shared services function of accounts payable and payment services for Stanford Medicine Children’s Health entities along with Packard Medical Group. The Director will work closely with financial and operational leadership across Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, including but not limited to: Accounting, Government Reimbursement, Managed Care, Revenue Cycle, Capital Planning and Fixed Assets, Payroll, Treasury, and Information Services, along with similar counterparts at Stanford Medicine Healthcare. The Director oversees all activities within the Accounts Payable department, including monthly and year-end close, reconciliation of AP subaccounts to the general ledger, and vendor payments including large volume and complex transactions. The Director will drive process automation and redesign to maximize efficiency and provide scalable services.

• Provides strategic direction and broad management over finance systems, including oversight of the design, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of the cloud ERP, inclusive of designing and maintaining business processes, testing and validation of interfaces and third-party applications, and developing and maintaining internal controls across all financial systems to ensure efficient processing and compliance with internal policies as well as external regulatory or reporting requirements.
• Matures the shared service AP model across LPCH, PCHA, and PMG to increase efficiency and move towards paperless processing through technology enablement, aligns accounting services with business strategy, eliminates non-value-added operational activities, standardizes processes, and drives ERP and business application optimization.
• Designs and manages key performance metrics that drive performance and demonstrate effectiveness.
• * Educates financial systems users across the organization on policies and processes.
• Ensures process documents, dashboards, process flow diagrams, desk guides, FAQs, and portal are developed and updated regularly for any process, system, or regulatory changes.
• Manages assigned staff for developing goals, performance measures, and enhancing skills and abilities.
• Defines new roles consistent with functional redesign to ensure team can meet expanding business needs.
• Ensures cross-training is adequate to ensure business continuity.
• Ensures staff is equipped with sufficient training and knowledge to leverage full capabilities of financial systems.
• Partners with Controller’s Office, Information Services, Supply Chain, Payroll, and operational business units on operational/technical requirements and strategies, and serves as lead for projects related to finance systems.
• Establish escalation strategy (plan, track, measure) to ensure issues are communicated and resolved in a timely manner.
• Assists with internal and external audits as needed.
• Works with Information Systems to ensure backup procedures and disaster procedures are sound and enable ongoing operations.

Minimum Qualifications

Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills and abilities as well as possession of any required licenses or certifications is qualifying.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a work-related field.

Experience: Seven (7) years of progressively responsible directly related work experience.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

These are the observable and measurable attributes and skills required to perform successfully the essential functions of the job and are generally demonstrated through qualifying experience, education, or licensure/certification.

• Knowledge of computer systems and software used in functional area
• Ability to exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for managing and planning process implementations and enhancements to existing financial processes and systems
• Ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus
• Ability to mediate and resolve complex problems and issues
• Ability to provide leadership and influence others and motivate cross-departmental performance
• Ability to work independently on complex issues and problems where analysis of processes or data requires an in depth evaluation of a multitude of factors
• Demonstrated ability to partner and collaborate across teams and entities in the development and achievement of goals, vision, and overall direction for financial systems
• Demonstrated ability to drive a culture of proactive, integrated, and responsive team to design and deliver high quality systems and processes
• Demonstrated ability to provide clear and concise information/presentations to the Senior Leadership Team and other public forums
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new tools and theories in process improvement and change management
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbally, to a wide variety of internal and external audiences