Director, Commercial Finance

Datavant is a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. We are a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners.

By joining Datavant today, you’re stepping onto a highly collaborative, remote-first team that is passionate about creating transformative change in healthcare. We hire for three traits: we want people who are smart, nice, and get things done. We invest in our people and believe in hiring for high-potential and humble individuals who can rapidly grow their responsibilities as the company scales. Datavant is a distributed, remote-first team, and we empower Datavanters to shape their working environment in a way that suits their needs.

Datavant is looking for an experienced, Director-level finance professional to join our small but growing finance team. In this high-visibility role, you will be responsible for providing insightful, data driven analyses that help us to better understand our customers and the context in which they operate.  This will entail understanding the workings of some of our largest contracts and most important relationships with the country’s largest Health Systems and Provider.  You will partner with the divisional CFO and the head of sales to provide robust commercial insights and become a partner to the sales team throughout the entire contracting process.  You will also help business leaders think through the financial and strategic implications of decisions across the entire customer lifecycle.  The role will also have a significant go-to-market focus to ensure the company is tracking and reporting opportunities, bookings, and revenue consistently and providing a clear pulse on how we are tracking against our aggressive top-line goals. 

If you are passionate about helping to build a high performing finance function in a growth-oriented healthtech business with a deeply compelling mission, this is the job for you. 

You Will: 

• Own the financial analysis (proforma models) for our largest and most important customers
• Advise business leadership on customer trends and implications of commercial decisions, helping to continue to drive the business forward
• Become a trusted partner to the sales team as they contemplate new contract structures
• Own the financial implications of the entire customer lifecycle, including partnering on renewal structuring 

You Will Bring to the Table: 

• At least 7 years of progressive FP&A or related finance experience, with a preference for commercial finance exposure
• Ability to quickly internalize the nuances of complex financial agreements
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, both within the finance team and with other sales and business unit leaders 
• Excellent analytical and financial modeling skills with an emphasis on scenario planning
• Support the sales team and leadership in negotiations throughout the customer cycle
• Ability to proactively seek out opportunities to analyze business problems, make recommendations, and translate complex  concepts into actionable insights
• Understanding of corporate finance and working knowledge of GAAP

We are committed to building a diverse team of Datavanters who are all responsible for stewarding a high-performance culture in which all Datavanters belong and thrive. We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.

Our compensation philosophy is to be externally competitive, internally fair, and not win or lose on compensation. Salary ranges for this position are developed with the support of benchmarks and industry best practices. 

We’re building a high-growth, high-autonomy culture. We rely less on job titles and more on cultivating an environment where anyone can contribute, the best ideas win, and personal growth is driven by expanding impact. The range posted is for a given job title, which can include multiple levels. Individual rates for the same job title may differ based on their level, responsibilities, skills, and experience for a specific job. The estimated salary range for this role is $150,000-$175,000.

At the end of this application, you will find a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to respond, your responses will be anonymous and used to help us identify areas of improvement in our recruitment process. (We can only see aggregate responses, not individual responses. In fact, we aren’t even able to see if you’ve responded or not.) Responding is your choice and it will not be used in any way in our hiring process.