Employer Direct Healthcare
Employer Direct Healthcare
Employer Direct Healthcare helps self-insured organizations provide high-quality, more affordable specialty care to their employees. Through its Lantern Specialty Care Platform, the company connects members with a curated network of surgeons and facilities for planned procedures, cancer treatment, and infusion care. Its care model combines provider selection, negotiated rates, and support throughout the treatment journey, with an emphasis on making excellent care accessible within driving distance for members in both rural and urban communities.

Director of Finance - Hybrid

Lead Lantern’s budgeting and enterprise forecasting strategy, including the rebuild of models that guide revenue planning, capital allocation, and executive decision-making.

Description

  • Own Lantern’s long-range and annual budgeting cycle from kickoff through board presentation
  • Partner with Corporate Strategy and finance leaders across departments
  • Convert enterprise revenue and margin targets into functional budgets and workforce plans
  • Maintain a structured planning calendar with defined milestones and deliverables
  • Direct the rebuild of Lantern’s enterprise forecasting model with an emphasis on revenue
  • Redesign how client-level results inform short- and long-term forecasts
  • Incorporate core business drivers, including marketing activations, into the forecasting model
  • Create a modeling infrastructure for enterprise planning and capital allocation decisions
  • Strengthen forecast precision and operating discipline across Finance and Strategy
  • Standardize forecasting practices and minimize dependence on one-off adjustments
  • Develop repeatable frameworks that enable the team to operate independently
  • Lead and develop a two-person finance team
  • Set team priorities, review deliverables, and maintain the model between planning cycles
  • Present budget proposals, model results, and forecasting practices to the CFO and executive leadership

Requirements

  • At least 8 years of experience in FP&A, corporate finance, or investment banking, including 2 or more years owning a complete budgeting or forecasting process
  • Advanced Excel modeling capability, including building and rebuilding three-statement models rather than only maintaining existing files
  • Ability to turn broad revenue and margin objectives into detailed, bottom-up functional plans
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills for concise executive briefings and real-time follow-up
  • Prior people-management experience or demonstrated readiness to supervise a first direct report
  • Experience with financial platforms such as NetSuite and reporting tools such as Power BI
  • Healthcare, healthcare services, or private-equity-backed company experience is preferred
  • Experience applying AI tools such as Claude to improve workflows is preferred

Benefits

  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Life insurance
  • 401(k) with company matching
  • Paid time off
  • Paid parental leave
  • Annual bonus based on location, level, and relevant experience

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