BUDGET DIRECTOR

At Cooper University Health Care, our commitment to providing extraordinary health care begins with our team. Our extraordinary professionals are continuously discovering clinical innovations and enhanced access to the most up-to-date facilities, equipment, technologies and research protocols. We have a commitment to our employees to provide competitive rates and compensation programs. Cooper offers full and part-time employees a comprehensive benefits program, including health, dental, vision, life, disability, and retirement. We also provide attractive working conditions and opportunities for career growth through professional development.

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The Budget Director will lead the Health System’s budgeting function in direct support of institutional mission and strategy. 

Reporting to the Senior Director, this role stewards the full operating and capital budgeting cycles; produces timely analyses and executive reporting; ensuring policy compliance; and cultivates budget literacy across the organization. 

The Budget Director partners closely with department leaders, including Vice Presidents, Directors and department heads to evaluate initiatives, model multi-year scenarios, and align resources with priorities. 

The Budget Director will assist the Senior Director in orchestrating Cooper University Health System’s full operating and capital budgeting cycles from calendar design through adoption and implementation, ensuring alignment with strategic and facilities plans.  

This role will collaborate and meet on a recurring basis with leadership to ensure accurate development and management of the annual operating and capital budgets, execute financial analyses for revenue and expense trends, and prepare presentations and reports for internal and external audiences.

Work closely with the leadership to monitor spending, provide regular reports to assist with management of each area budget.

Attend monthly accountability meetings with health system leadership and accounting teams.  

Provide hands-on education and support for departments to enhance their understanding of hospital budgets and our financial reporting tools, fostering a culture of shared accountability and fiscal transparency.

Partner with accounting as a resource to better align the budgeting/monitoring process with month end close activities.

Accountable to maintain a system of internal/business controls which are designed to provide reasonable assurance to CUHC Management that the information provided is accurate, timely and reliable.

Assist in the management of financial processes that include statistical reporting, variance analysis and financial reporting

This role will establish the use of financial decision support tools, their integration with key systems like Infor, Epic, Kronos and others.

Oversee position control analytics, including staffing plans, vacancy tracking, and salary/benefit projections to inform workforce planning and multi-year forecasts. 

Minimum 6 year's experience in full operating and capital budgeting cycles within a health care system.

High School Diploma and Associate's degree Required.

Bachelors or Masters Preferred 

Communication – Ability to communicate with patients, visitors and coworkers