Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Onsite or Remote
Fully On-Site
Work Schedule
Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Posted Date
03/03/2026
Salary Range $182600 - 449200 Annually
Employment Type
2 - Staff: Career
Duration
indefinite
Job #
29277
Controller
Financial Services, UCLA Health
Serve as a key financial executive overseeing enterprise accounting operations across a complex academic health system. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, the Controller leads critical financial functions supporting a hospital system with over $5B in annual operations. This role ensures strong internal controls, drives financial reporting excellence, and partners with executive leadership to support systemwide financial stewardship and operational performance.
In this role, you will:
• Lead all hospital system accounting operations including General Accounting, Property Accounting, Gift Administration, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Treasury, and Financial Reporting.
• Direct and develop a large, multi level accounting leadership team while fostering accountability, performance excellence, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the monthly close process, prepare financial statements, and deliver detailed variance and trend analysis to executive leadership and governing boards.
• Ensure compliance with applicable accounting standards, healthcare regulations, and internal control requirements including safeguarding of assets and proper segregation of duties.
• Coordinate and lead the annual external audit process, including preparation of financial statements and collaboration on the annual community benefit report.
• Oversee enterprise financial systems, upgrades, integrations, and technology enhancements to strengthen reporting accuracy and internal controls.
• Provide strategic financial analysis to senior leadership, including capital transaction analysis, bond due diligence coordination, debt reporting, and cash flow oversight.
• Monitor adherence to GASB fund accounting standards and restricted fund requirements, including intercompany reconciliations and treasury oversight.
• Partner with reimbursement leadership on accounts receivable and net revenue valuation matters.
• Represent the hospital system in University of California Office of the President Controller meetings and systemwide finance committees.
Salary Range:
$182,600 to $449,200 annually
Required
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related field. Master’s or advanced degree in Finance or Accounting required.
• Certified Public Accountant certification.
• 7 to 10 years of senior level accounting experience, preferably within Academic Medical Centers, Hospital Systems, or healthcare focused accounting environments.
• 5 or more years of direct management experience leading accounting teams.
• Demonstrated experience leading integrated accounting, reporting, and enterprise financial systems.
• Experience coordinating external audits and managing complex capital related transactions, debt reporting, and cash flow oversight.
• Strong knowledge of internal financial controls, regulatory compliance, and GASB fund accounting standards.
• Advanced financial reporting, variance analysis, and executive presentation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to build and lead high performing management teams while driving operational improvement.
senior leadership and collaborate with clinical, operational, and university stakeholders.
Preferred
• Demonstrated understanding of healthcare reimbursement, Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development reporting requirements, and healthcare regulatory environments.
As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.
For more than half a century, UCLA Health has provided the best in healthcare and the latest in medical technology to the people of Los Angeles and throughout the world.
Comprised of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Medical Center Santa Monica, Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital, UCLA West Valley Medical Center and the UCLA Medical Group with its wide-reaching system of primary-care and specialty-care offices throughout the region, UCLA Health is among the most comprehensive and advanced healthcare systems in the world.
Our physicians are world leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of complex illnesses, and our hospitals are among the best in the country. Consistently ranked one of the top ten hospitals in the nation and the best medical center in the western United States by U.S. News & World Report, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is at the cutting edge of biomedical research, and our doctors and scientists are leaders in performing pioneering work across an astounding range of disciplines, from organ transplantation and cardiac surgery to neurosurgery and cancer treatment, and bringing the latest discoveries to virtually every field of medicine.
