Senior Director, Accounting-Corporate – Financial Management & Budgeting

Job Description

Senior Director, Accounting-Corporate | Mount Sinai Health System

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mount Sinai Health System, located in New York, NY. Mount Sinai Health System is a leading academic medical system in the New York metro area, dedicated to advancing health through patient care, research, and education across its extensive network of hospitals, practices, and labs. This Senior Director position is critical for directing and coordinating all financial activities for assigned departments or divisions, ensuring robust financial health and operational alignment with institutional policies and strategic goals. The role offers the opportunity to provide leadership in financial planning and oversight within a complex and impactful healthcare environment.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Days
• Location: In-person, New York, NY
• Pay: $186005–$279007 yearly
• Team: Leadership position with oversight of Financial Managers, Management Analysts and other personnel related to finance and decision support.
• Mission: Direct and coordinate all financial activities for departments or divisions, ensuring fiscal operations adhere to institutional policies and support strategic initiatives.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Financial Oversight: Direct financial controls, procedures, and practices, including developing, implementing, and managing operational budgets, grants, contracts, endowments, gifts, and faculty practice revenues.
• Strategic Financial Planning: Provide leadership in the development, implementation, and monitoring of financial plans that reflect the strategic initiatives and operational priorities of the department.
• Fiscal Operations Management: Oversee global budget submissions for the department, conduct monthly budget monitoring, implement corrective action plans to meet financial goals, and approve departmental financial transactions.
• Business Process Improvement: Develop solutions to improve current business processes, establish and maintain effective internal controls, and perform necessary analyses of key programs to determine financial feasibility.
• Staff and HR Management: Supervise staff, including recruitment, performance reviews, and termination, and provide departmental approval for all human resources transactions.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance or a Business-related field.
• Experience: 10 years of progressively responsible experience in finance or accounting, encompassing budgeting, financial forecasting, financial modeling, planning, organizing, and managing multiple financial activities.
• Skills: Financial oversight and internal controls, operational and capital budgeting, financial reporting and analysis, business process development, staff supervision and HR transaction management.
• Bonus: Master’s degree preferred, Big 4 experience a plus, CPA a plus.