Manager, Finance Site Liaison at Lifepoint Health® in TN, United States

Job description

• Your experience matters
• More about our team
• The LBS Finance Site Liaison team partners across Lifepoint to deliver accurate, timely, and consistent accounting support in a complex healthcare environment. This hands-on leadership role combines team management with direct accounting responsibility, including ownership of the overhead ledger, and works closely with Finance and operational partners across the organization.

Responsibilities

• How you’ll contribute
• Leads and develops members of the Site Liaison Finance team, providing day-to-day direction, coaching, workload management, and oversight of accounting deliverables.
• Serves as a hands-on working manager, balancing leadership responsibilities with direct participation in accounting activities, including preparing journal entries and reviewing work completed by team members.
• Owns the accounting and financial management of the overhead ledger, ensuring activity is complete, accurate, appropriately supported, and recorded timely.
• Oversees month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities within the manager’s area of responsibility, ensuring deadlines and established close requirements are consistently met.
• Reviews journal entries, account reconciliations, balance sheet activity, financial results, and supporting documentation for accuracy and completeness.
• Performs and oversees P&L and balance sheet analysis, investigates significant or unusual variances, and ensures accounting issues are appropriately resolved.
• Ensures internal controls and accounting processes are appropriately designed and consistently followed to support accurate and compliant financial reporting.
• Partners with LBS Finance leadership, Technical Accounting, operations, and other stakeholders to research and resolve complex accounting matters.
• Drives accounting process improvements and standardization, identifying opportunities to improve efficiency, accuracy, controls, and consistency.
• Provides leadership and accounting expertise in a shared-services environment, helping the team effectively support evolving organizational and operational needs.
• Establishes clear expectations and accountability within the team while remaining actively involved in the work necessary to meet close and reporting deadlines.
• Supports budgeting, forecasting, audit, and other financial reporting activities as needed.
• Maintains regular and reliable attendance and performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• What we’re looking for
• Applicants should have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance. Additional qualifications include:
• 5–7+ years of progressive accounting and finance experience, including significant accounting leadership experience within a healthcare environment.
• Strong general ledger and month-end close expertise, including journal entry preparation and review, account reconciliations, balance sheet management, financial analysis, and internal controls.
• Demonstrated ability and willingness to operate as a working manager, remaining directly involved in accounting deliverables while also leading and developing a team.
• Prior experience managing, coaching, and reviewing the work of accounting professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex financial activity, identify issues, and drive timely resolution.
• Strong understanding of GAAP, financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting process governance.
• Proven ability to partner effectively with senior Finance and operational leaders in a complex organization.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Recent experience operating at a Controller, Assistant Controller, Finance Director, Assistant CFO, or comparable healthcare finance leadership level strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated healthcare accounting experience; hospital or health system experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working within a shared services or centralized finance environment preferred.
• Behavioral health accounting or finance experience preferred.
• Experience with Oracle, EPM, or comparable enterprise financial systems preferred.

Skills

Required

• Accounting
• Finance
• General ledger
• Month-end close
• Journal entry preparation and review
• Account reconciliations
• Balance sheet management
• Financial analysis
• Internal controls
• GAAP
• Financial reporting
• Process governance

Preferred

• Oracle
• EPM
• Healthcare accounting
• Hospital or health system experience
• Behavioral health accounting or finance

Benefits

• Why join us
• We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:
• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.
• Salary range: $89,937-$124,563 per year.