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
USD $48.08
USD $83.00
Cooper University Health Care is the leading academic health system in South Jersey and provides access to primary, specialty, tertiary, and urgent care, all within one complete health system. Cooper has nearly 14,000 team members including 1,600 nurses, more than 1,000 employed physicians representing 95 specialties and subspecialties, and more than 600 advanced practice professionals. Hospitals throughout the region send their most complex and critically ill and injured to Cooper for treatment by our highly skilled experts.
Ranked year after year by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top health systems in the Philadelphia Metro area, Cooper is consistently recognized for its quality, safety, and exceptional patient care.
Cooper has three hospitals: South Jersey’s only Level I trauma center, Cooper University Hospital in Camden, which is the busiest trauma center in the Philadelphia region; Cooper University Hospital Cape Regional in Cape May Court House, and Children’s Regional Hospital at Cooper, which is the only Level II pediatric trauma center in the Delaware Valley. Cooper is also home to a leading cancer center (MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper), six urgent care centers, and more than 130 outpatient offices from the Delaware River to the Jersey Shore, including large regional hubs in Camden, Cherry Hill, Moorestown, Voorhees, Willingboro, and Sewell.
Cooper University Health Care is affiliated with – and its physicians make up the faculty of – Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, which is located on the Cooper Health Sciences Campus in Camden, New Jersey. Cooper has a long history in the City of Camden and is playing a leading role in its revitalization.
