The Corporate Finance Internal Reporting Team is responsible for supporting Healthways' internal financial reporting / planning applications and processes - and is essential in supporting the firm's business critical information. The team works closely with operational finance, accounting and business systems organizations. The ideal candidate will lead this process.

He/she will be responsible for determining the business internal reporting requirements to ensure that the processes are in place to enhance the internal financial reporting requirements. In addition, he/she will implement new applications and tools, or upgrade and maintain existing applications and tools, as driven by business requirements to meet the growing needs of Healthways. 

In addition, he/she will lead the group's COE initiatives and continue to build a culture of continuous improvement in the financial reporting processes of the organization. He/she will build relationships across the organization and work closely with various constituencies.

Responsibilities Include:

* Lead the firm's Corporate Finance Internal Reporting Team to support the firms' global internal financial reporting and planning applications and processes.

* Lead the research, development and implementation of new and/or enhanced tools, applications, metrics/measurements and reports to support the internal planning and reporting processes. Evaluate current platforms and systems - and recommend the upgrade or implementation of new systems according to the business needs.

* Ensure critical internal financial information is available and accurate on a timely basis by working closely with operational finance and accounting. Lead the development of new reports, metrics, processes to ensure that critical information needed to drive the business is available up and down the organization. 

* Maintain and upgrade existing planning / reporting tools and applications.

* Lead and play a critical role in the measurement of operational effectiveness throughout the finance organization. Be a catalyst for cultural change and infuse a proactive bias for continuous improvement in day-to-day activities.

* Proactively reach out to Business Leaders to ensure that their financial reporting needs are being met. Develop relationships across the organization and gain a reputation as the point person for all aspects of Internal Financial Reporting. Build a foundation of trust and respect among clients/users and staff (direct and indirect) that will help facilitate ongoing and future projects. 

* Be the liaison with operational finance, accounting, BT and the development teams (internal and outsourced) to provide application development support to CFIRT initiatives.

* Work with accounting, operational finance, HR, and BT to coordinate systems-related work and develop application strategy and standards, addressing common issues and balancing resources. Develop rolling project plans and prioritize (or reprioritize) as needed based on technology, resource, or business issues.

* Take an active lead in the existing, large, complex measurement of operational effectiveness projects. Coordinate cross-functional teams to rethink and develop more efficient measures of the critical processes required by the business.

* Provide user training and support for the key Internal Financial Reporting application(s). Work closely with the Corporate Systems Group to ensure appropriate functional help desk support that assists users with issues and questions about applications. Provide problem solving; one-on-one, classroom and web training; best practice sharing, process improvement, ad-hoc querying and reporting (provide information as needed to support various groups in analysis and decision making), and maintaining and evolving processes in support of CFIRT work. 

CANDIDATE SPECIFICATION: KEY SELECTION CRITERIA 

Ideal Experience 

* 10+ years of increasingly progressive responsibility and experience in leading and managing financial activities - including large, complex corporate systems initiatives involving functional and technical resources.

* Hands-on experience with financial processes and reporting. In-depth knowledgeable about the finance function, including planning, accounting, tax, treasury, etc. 

* Knowledge of best practices in internal financial and metric reporting mechanisms (ie activity based costing and other allocation methodologies) to help drive organizational effectiveness and accountability. 

* Experience driving change to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Led operational improvement, organizational design and/or business process redesign initiatives previously.

* Has led an organization previously and a team of direct reports. Has also led large, cross-matrixed, cross functional project teams.

* Masters or Bachelor's degree, preferably with an emphasis in Finance/ Accounting and/or Management Information Systems 

Critical Competencies for Success 

People/Team Leadership - Provides leadership and mentorship to a seasoned team of professionals located across a dispersed geography and within a consensus driven and cross-matrixed organization by

* Leveraging strong communications skills and frequent interactions to drive ongoing dialogs and gaining consensus around a common goal or objective.

* Leading by example, not asking anything of others that he/she would not do themselves and delivering on what he/she says that they will do.

* Building relationships across the organization and positively leveraging them to get things done.

* Coaching and mentoring others to create a strong following and reputation for developing organizational talent and high performing teams.

Influencing and Persuading - Gains buy-in for plans, projects, and ideas from key stakeholders with whom he/she has influence but not authority in order to get things done by 

* Discussing or debating issues by providing a fact-base perspective and analysis.

* Developing cultural awareness and having the organizational sensitivities required to work effectively in a large, global, highly-matrixed, collaborative organization to drive business improvements.

* When necessary, adopting a personal approach by leveraging relationships and syndicating ideas or holding individual meetings to address the concerns of parties ahead of time before decisions are made

Exceptional Communications Skills - Effectively communicates (orally, written, one-on-one, large groups, presentations, formally and informally), with a wide variety of constituencies in a global, cross matrixed organization by 

* Listening well and gathering information to create an informed opinion

* Adapting one's communication style for different global audiences in order to maximize his/her influence

* Widely syndicate and articulate ideas, proposals, and plans 

Project Management Skills - Manages multiple, international, and client demanding projects in an organization where priorities can change by

* Planning, prioritizing and delegating multiple projects and allocating people and resources effective. Manage client expectations about deliverables and the timing of those deliverables. 

* Adapting and demonstrating flexibility when special or higher priority projects impact the existing project plans.

Other Personal Characteristics 

* Smart, analytical, and creative yet fact based problem solver,

* A self starter, who takes the initiative and finds ways to get things done,

* Have a can-do attitude, yet patient in working with others to find a solution, 

* Enjoys a collaborative and team oriented environment. We are proud to be an EEO/AA employer M/F/D/V.