Director of Finance & Administration

Kernersville, North Carolina, United States of America

Extraordinary Care. Extraordinary Careers.

With one of the nation’s largest, most innovative long-term care pharmacy services providers, there is no limit to the growth of your career.

Southern Pharmacy Services, a member of the Guardian family of pharmacies, has an exciting opportunity for you to join our rapidly growing team in Kernersville, North Carolina.

Why Southern Pharmacy Services? We’re reimagining medication management and transforming care.

Who We Are and What We’re About:

Our core focus is delivering customized medication management solutions to support healthcare organizations serving seniors and individuals with complex care needs. With our comprehensive suite of tech-enabled pharmacy services and a dedicated team of professionals committed to enriching the lives of those we serve, we are redefining how pharmacy care is delivered.

We offer an opportunity to learn and grow your career in a fast-paced, diverse, and inclusive environment. If you are looking for a challenging, team-oriented environment in which you can put your expertise to work, then this is the place for you.

The Director, Finance & Administration directly supports the business unit providing real-time financial analysis to leadership to allow them to run the pharmacy more efficiently. Works in partnership with a business unit President, Director, and Pharmacy Operations.  Work collaboratively to ensure the annual business plan is achieved, and short/long term business objectives are met.  This individual will also manage various supporting & administrative functions within the pharmacy, including people management and oversight of the billing & collections teams to ensure customers are billed correctly and outstanding balances are collected.  The DFA will work closely with the Support Services Team to ensure people management, strategy development, resource allocation, and financial outcomes are achieved.

Operations:

• Manage all aspects of Billing & Collections

• Develop strong customer relationships, handle sensitive billing & collections issues  

• Provide on-going real-time product margin analysis to the President and Pharmacy Ops team and work together to address issues   

• Perform ad hoc analysis      

• Support Pharmacy DOO in identifying and executing workflow/process improvement initiatives

• Oversee Purchasing Function (where function reports to DFA)

  • Manage implementation and maintenance of price tables to ensure proper reimbursement and contract compliance

  • Manage quarterly analysis of margin/inventory to explain variance

• Lead Qtrly Pharmacy Ops calls

• Perform local IT administration, or liaise with local resource

• Administrative Support

  • Facility Management

  • Procurement: new vendor negotiation/set-up procure supplies, etc.

  • New Employee Onboarding (if no HR Generalist on-site)

• Local Human Resources liaison – work closely with HRBPs (if no HR Generalist on-site) 

• Liaison to Support Services Teams (Purchasing, IT, HR, Accounting, Legal)  

• Other essential functions and duties may be assigned as needed

 Finance:

• Provide monthly/quarterly financial analysis, including variance explanations for revenue, COGS (margin), labor and all other operating expenses to other members of the pharmacy management team and provide suggestions for improvement

• Educate pharmacy management teams/operators on the impact of operations/workflow on key financial metrics  

• Prepare for, oversee, and certify the quarterly physical inventory counts

• Provide support to Support Services Accounting Team to ensure a timely month-end/quarterly close

• Vendor Management/Negotiation

• Fixed Asset, AP

  • Manage the review and approval process for all expenses, ensuring all bills are correct and have appropriate local approval prior to submission to support services A/P

• Lead/manage the Annual Business Planning Process

• Other essential functions and duties may be assigned as needed

Education and/or Certifications: 

• Background/education – 4-year business or finance related degree. Relevant work experience can substitute for education.

Skills and Qualifications: 

• 7+ years expertise in Operations Management/Healthcare Distribution,