Chief Financial Officer
Description
Purpose: Healthy mind, healthy body, vibrant community.
Mission: To provide innovative, integrated healthcare, community education, and services to individuals, families, and organizations.
Primary Position Purpose: Provides executive leadership, comprehensive internal and external reporting, prudent stewardship of resources, and data-driven insights to advance long-term strategic objectives, ensuring the financial health and sustainability of the organization.
This position exists to:
- Provide executive financial leadership to drive organizational sustainability.
- Exercise rigorous resource stewardship and strategic capital allocation.
- Deliver data-driven insights that support mission-critical decision-making.
- Ensure the long-term financial health of the organization.
Position Summary: The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is a vital executive leader dedicated to safeguarding the organization’s financial health and long-term sustainability. By providing strategic financial leadership and overseeing complex resource stewardship, the CFO ensures that the agency possesses the fiscal resilience and data-driven insights necessary to execute its mission-driven objectives. This role bridges high-level strategic planning with rigorous financial oversight to drive organizational growth and stability.
Values: Demonstrates behaviors which contribute to the growth and achievement of Comprehensive’s mission:
- Passion for the Work, Compassion for the Client
- Demonstrates empathy, professionalism, and sound judgment in all interactions
- Prioritizes client safety, dignity, and outcomes
- Maintains composure and effectiveness in high-pressure or emotionally demanding situations
- Customer Service
- Takes ownership of issues and follows through to resolution
- Communicates clearly, honestly, and proactively
- Maintains a solutions-oriented approach and supports both clients and colleagues
- Collaborative Problem Solving
- Engages others to develop effective, aligned solutions
- Communicates openly and works across teams to reduce silos
- Shares accountability for decisions and outcomes
- Leadership Expectation
- Sets clear expectations and holds self and others accountable
- Addresses issues at the appropriate level
- Aligns team performance with organizational goals
Key Success Measures
- Days in Accounts Receivable: Maintain at less than 30 days.
- Operating Cash: Maintain within 15-20 days.
- Operating Margin: Greater than 7%.
Key Activities:
- Strategic Planning and Cross-Functional Alignment: Orchestrate the translation of high-level organizational vision into actionable enterprise-wide strategies, ensuring seamless collaboration and integration across departments to drive long-term mission fulfillment.
- Operational Oversight and Process Excellence: Architect and champion scalable administrative frameworks, continuously optimizing workflows to enhance organizational agility, reduce systemic friction, and improve overall operational efficiency.
- Financial and Resource Stewardship: Direct the strategic allocation of capital and human resources, exercising rigorous fiscal oversight to ensure financial sustainability while balancing investment in mission-critical initiatives and administrative infrastructure.
- Governance, Risk, and Compliance Strategy: Establish enterprise-wide governance standards and proactive risk-mitigation frameworks, ensuring full regulatory adherence while fostering a culture of ethics and operational resilience.
- Executive Leadership and Talent Optimization: Cultivate high-performing executive teams by providing mentorship, clear accountability, and performance-based oversight, directly coaching senior leaders (CHRO, CFO, CIO, Director of Compliance) to foster leadership growth and organizational impact.
Skills & Experience:
- Proven track record of strategic financial leadership in complex, multi-site organizations, with expertise in fiscal planning, capital allocation, and risk management.
- Ability to drive enterprise-wide financial strategy, integrating data-driven insights into operational decision-making to ensure organizational sustainability.
- Expertise in overseeing multi-site financial operations, managing complex budgets, and establishing robust internal controls and governance frameworks.
- Demonstrated capacity to lead, mentor, and cultivate high-performing finance and administrative teams, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
- Experience navigating regulatory environments relevant to healthcare (e.g., audits, compliance, financial reporting requirements) and effectively communicating financial performance to executive leadership and boards.
- Ability to partner with the CEO and executive team to identify growth opportunities, mitigate operational risks, and optimize resource utilization across the organization.