Director, Financial Performance

Are you a consultative managed care leader who prides themselves on effectively digging into key financial and business indicators to highlight strengths, opportunities, and practices that lead to optimal business performance? Are you a proven financial expert, inspired to do more than just review and present financial results from a finance-only lens? Are you considered a strategic advisor to senior leadership, examining key business results and drivers of financial outcomes to identify opportunities for improvement and offering those insights and strategic guidance to drive business performance? If so, come Find your Spark at Quartz as our new Director, Financial Performance!

The Director, Financial Performance will be responsible for performing advanced analysis of financial results to identify new information, emerging trends, and communicate drivers of performance. This leader will also develop forecasts to advise committees and provider sponsors on opportunities to improve organizational performance, understand and mitigate risks, and enable sustainable financial success.

Benefits:

• Highly-visible, trusted advisor and decision-making partner to senior-level leadership, executives, Board of Directors, and provider sponsors
• Shape and guide the vision, value, and legacy of a new role on the Quartz senior leadership team
• Latitude and encouragement to think differently and collaborate widely to propel Quartz’s competitiveness in the market through data-driven financial insights and reporting
• Directly and indirectly improve healthcare costs for Quartz members through the identification of cost saving and cost avoidance opportunities for the organization
• Starting salary range, based upon commensurate skills and experience: $140,000 - $170,000 plus robust benefits package

• Perform advanced analysis of monthly financial statements to determine drivers of performance, reconcile changes and fluctuations, and identify emerging trends
• Implement key performance indicators to monitor progress toward financial goals, overall financial health, and facilitate proactive decision making
• Evaluate financial processes, systems, and modeling tools to ensure accuracy in reporting and projections, recommending enhancements for precise, streamlined operations, and improved efficiency
• Develop and present forecasts and recommendations to senior leadership and provider sponsors, in collaboration with relevant teams to gather input and insights, analyze historical financial data to identify patterns and trends, and highlight potential risks and uncertainties
• Collaborate and consult with provider sponsors, executive leadership and Board of Directors through effective committee facilitation and presentation of key financial reports, metrics, and actionable insights that highlight opportunities for improved Financial Performance and business outcomes
• Stay informed of industry trends, regulatory changes, economic factors, and other external influences that may impact Financial Performance and update forecasts based on evolving business conditions

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, or related field; work experience will be considered in lieu of education requirement
• 10+ years of experience in Finance, Actuarial, or related insurance capacity
• 5+ years of management experience
• 5+ years working in managed care and/or health insurance industry
• CPA / CMA, Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASA), or Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) preferred
• Demonstrated ability to improve processes and generate innovative ideas
• Ability to manipulate and analyze large data sets and think critically to recognize discrepancies, trends, and anomalies and determine meaningful insights and recommendations through advanced analysis
• Exceptional leadership and team management skills – ability to gain trust and influence a wide range of stakeholders across all levels of the organization, in a highly matrixed environment
• Able to measure business performance and influence through financial indicators, including financial model development and analysis
• Strong executive presence and presentation skills – ability to translate and communicate topics in a variety of forums, tailoring communications to effectively fit and influence the targeted audience

This position has the flexibility to work remotely, though reporting regularly (at least quarterly) to our office in Madison, WI.  Hardware and equipment will be provided by the company, but candidates must have access to high-speed, non-satellite Internet to successfully work from home.

Quartz offers an excellent benefit and compensation package, opportunity for career advancement and a professional culture built upon the foundations of Respect, Responsibility, Relationships, and Resourcefulness. To support a safe work environment, all employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a pre-employment criminal background check.

Quartz values and embraces diversity and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified person with disability.