Director, FP&A

Your Future Evolves Here

Put your passion where it meets purpose! Evolent attracts some of the brightest minds in health care. Surround yourself with talented, driven colleagues who share a passion for better health outcomes and a more connected care journey. We are hiring for a Director to join our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Team.

The FP&A team’s mission is to drive data-driven financial and operational analyses that inform strategic decision-making, business planning, and areas of future investment.  This individual will be responsible for all FP&A activities within their business area, and the FP&A team structure allows for future opportunities to support other Evolent business lines and operations over time.

Evolent’s FP&A team works cross-functionally with all departments across the organization, including Operations, Accounting, Implementation, and Sales, supporting all company stakeholders, as well as the executive leadership team.

What You Will Be Doing:

The primary responsibilities of the Director include being accountable for the following FP&A activities for their business area:

Serve as the Business Area’s FP&A Point of Contact –

• Produce monthly financial packages / reports with business intelligence / KPIs with commentary on key business drivers
• Report out to the business area’s leaders on recent financial performance and trends in monthly meetings and in any other forums
• Work directly with senior leadership to create insights on major risks and opportunities and drive strategic decision making across the business area
• Act as subject matter expert for business area and lead ad hoc analysis and data requests including highlighting unexpected variances / trends and engaging business leaders to jointly investigate these items
• Coordinate with business leaders in the forecasting and budgeting process, quarterbacking the process, highlighting areas of opportunity, and soliciting the department’s input on key business driver assumptions
• Supporting department leaders in all areas within FP&A and ancillary Finance functions (e.g., reporting, coordinating with Accounting / Payroll, job requisitions / open role planning, department P&L forecasting)
• Customize the standard companywide FP&A tools to support the unique needs of the business area
• Provide both business updates and process recommendations to the Finance team informed by challenges and opportunities within that business area
• Liaise with other teams under the Finance umbrella (e.g., Actuarial, Accounting) to maintain accurate forecasting
• Manage multiple, competing priorities/deals/processes while flawlessly executing on driving deliverables throughout a project cycle.
• Leverage excellent verbal and written communication skills with significant experience working with executive leaders.

Accountability for Core FP&A Activities –  

• Build and maintain forecast models with consistency, accuracy, and scalability
• Continuously seek to improve our financial models as the business evolves and the customer base and product offerings expand
• Provide nuanced analysis to help explain monthly variances and impacts to future forecasts
• Publish an annual budget and a monthly forecast with bridges vs. prior forecasts
• Create, automate, and maintain financial reporting tools
• Partner with the Accounting team to investigate variances vs. forecast
• Partner with the Financial Information Systems team to drive Adaptive Insights functionality improvement, including automating reporting and developing process automation initiatives
• Manage Workday / Adaptive financial data in partnership with Talent, Workday, and Finance (e.g., project codes, capitalization codes, cost centers)

Qualifications Required and Preferred:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent experience
• 6-8 years of FP&A experience or other relevant Finance role with substantial financial modeling experience and ideally coming from an institution with a training / rotational / development program
• Experience with Workday and Adaptive Insights
• Extensive experience using Microsoft Excel
• Experience presenting to executives and C-Suite
• Ability to work independently and manage time across multiple work streams and stakeholders
• Extraordinarily detail oriented and focus on accuracy
• Exceptionally strong analytical abilities, with a track record of identifying insights from financial information and translating into business analytics and recommendations
• Candidate who thrives with growth-driven changes
• Experience in or exposure to the healthcare space, pricing, and / or operational analytics preferred
• Ability to work Eastern or Central time zone business hours preferred

Technical Requirements:

We require that all employees have the following technical capability at their home: High speed internet over 10 Mbps and, specifically for all call center employees, the ability to plug in directly to the home internet router. These at-home technical requirements are subject to change with any scheduled re-opening of our office locations. 

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact [email protected] for further assistance.

The expected base salary/wage range for this position is $120,000. This position is also eligible for a bonus component that would be dependent on pre-defined performance factors. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent is proud to offer comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position and commensurate with experience of selected individuals, which may vary above and below the stated amounts.