**Summary** : The Vice President, Budget and Operations, Baystate Health is a senior financial leader who serves as a key partner to system leadership in advancing Baystate Health’s mission through fiscal stewardship and operational insight. The Vice President, Budget and Operations, interprets financial data provided by corporate finance to support decision-making, ensure accountability, and drive performance improvement. This role collaborates with service line, clinical, and administrative leaders to analyze trends, conduct root cause analysis of variances, and identify opportunities for operational efficiencies and margin improvement. The Vice President, Budget and Operations, plays a central role in volume planning, supports the development of business plans in coordination with corporate financial planning, and ensures alignment between hospital priorities and system initiatives. **Key Responsibilities** : 1. Strategic Financial Leadership: Provide expert financial guidance and oversight to system leadership. 2. Budgeting: In support of Baystate Health, lead the development and execution of the hospital’s annual operating budget. Collaborate with service lines, medical group and clinical leadership on volume planning. Ensure the expense budget aligns with volume assumptions and supports responsible financial stewardship. Monitor performance against budget, prepare projections, and initiate remediation plans as needed. 3. Financial Reporting & Analysis: Understand results of monthly financial reporting provide by corporate finance, including variance analysis and KPIs. Interpret and present results to senior leadership (hospital and corporate) and collaborate with system finance to ensure consistency and accuracy. 4. Collaboration with System Shared Services: Work in partnership with system-level functions (e.g., revenue cycle, coding, documentation, IT, supply chain, HR, accounts payable) in support of system initiatives. Liaison between corporate finance functions and hospital operations. 5. Financial Planning: Collaborate with corporate financial planning and hospital/service line leaders as necessary to develop and evaluate business plans for new hospital initiatives. Monitor progress against plans and initiate remediation plans as necessary. 6. Capital Planning: Prioritize capital requests in alignment with system-level capacity constraints and strategic initiatives. Review and approve capital requisitions. Ensure alignment with annual capital plan and institutional priorities. 7. Responsible for oversight of hospital specific finance needs for development and grants. 8. Strata Performance Management: Lead the use of Strata tools to monitor productivity, manage cost centers, and analyze financial statement variances. Ensure clinical and operational managers are engaged and accountable. Ensure efficiency of hospital Productivity and Position Control meetings. 9. Physician and Clinical Support: Collaborate with physicians, clinical leadership and service line leadership to strengthen financial performance, improve care delivery models, and support service line development. 10. Compliance and Internal Controls: Ensure compliance with all relevant financial standards, regulatory requirements, and Baystate Health policies. Maintain robust internal controls to safeguard assets. 11. Team Leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing finance team. Foster a culture of accountability, continuous learning, and excellence. **Skills, Knowledge, Or Abilities** + Strong knowledge of healthcare finance, including budgeting, cost accounting, and reimbursement methodologies. + Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply complex financial data to operational strategies. + Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; able to engage effectively with both clinical and non-clinical stakeholders. + Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence across a matrixed organization. + Commitment to Baystate Health’s mission, vision, and values. **Education** **Minimum Qualifications:** Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field required. Master’s Degree (MBA, MHA) preferred. CPA preferred. **Experience** At least 10 years of progressive financial leadership experience in healthcare, including 5 years in a senior financial role within a hospital or integrated health system. **You Belong At Baystate** At Baystate Health we know that treating one another with dignity and equity is what elevates respect for our patients and staff. It makes us not just an organization, but also a community where you belong. It is how we advance the care and enhance the lives of all people. DIVERSE TEAMS. DIVERSE PATIENTS. DIVERSE LOCATIONS. **Education:** **Certifications:** **Equal Employment Opportunity Employer** Baystate Health is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, disability, or protected veteran status.