Manager, Finance Operations - Pricing Execution

What Finance Operations contributes to Cardinal Health
Finance oversees the accounting, tax, financial plans and policies of the organization, establishes and maintains fiscal controls, prepares and interprets financial reports, oversees financial systems and safeguards the organization's assets.

Finance Operations is responsible for the oversight and overall performance of core financial processes. This includes supplier contract pricing administration, rebates, cash application, chargebacks, billing, accounts payable and employee travel & expense.

Responsibilities

• Leads large team to execute the Pharma Supplier Agreements and Metro Medical processes; role will manage a team of approximately 15 U.S. based team members as well as a 50-person outsourced operation.

• Accountable for understanding and tracking Key Performance Indicators for Pharma Supplier Agreements and Metro Medical, using analytical skills to drive performance and highlight where improvements and projects need to be focused.

• Focus will be on driving down credit and rebills, improving customer pricing accuracy, and Chargeback risk exposure through accurately and effectively loading contract pricing from suppliers into CAH pricing systems.  

• Ability to help drive a culture of root cause problem solving and working collaboratively with suppliers, customer support teams, chargebacks and other areas of Finance/Finance Ops to identify, solve, and prevent issues.

• Actively seek improvement and automation opportunities to improve the supplier and customer experience, thinking proactively to solve and prevent issues in a continuously changing industry.

• Possess strong organizational skills; prioritizes getting the right things done including ongoing escalations and customer issues, maintaining SOX and audit controls, and partnering with other managers in area to accomplish common goals.

Leadership Competencies

• Driving Innovation Adaptability/Inventiveness/ Agility  

• Influential leadership - Selling a concept, gaining support/funding, negotiating/influencing

• Accountability - Being accountable to our teams, each other, stakeholders, our customers

• Empowerment – Empowering teams and each other to be self-directive 

• Coaching - Development, willingness to have tough conversations, etc.

• Organizational savvy – Ability to effectively navigate and find success in both the vertical and horizontal org.

• Fostering diverse and inclusive environment

• Futuristic/Forward thinking

Process Focus

• End-to-end process thinking (including work, systems, and stakeholders)

• Continuous improvement mentality / lean leader / curiosity / problem solving

• Disciplined execution – Being nimble. Speed to execution, Prioritization

Functional/Technical

• Business acumen / Cardinal Enterprise and Industry perspective customer focus/knowledge

• Global and remote leadership. Effectively lead, communicate and execute across global and remote environments

• Financial acumen – Risk management

Qualifications

• 6+ years experience in back-office operations field preferred

• Previous large team leadership experience preferred

• Lean background or …