Hospital Sisters Health System is looking for a Chief Financial Officer to lead our Central Illinois Market and Physician Enterprise. The market structure includes five Illinois HSHS Hospitals, the System’s outpatient physician group, and is based at HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, IL. This position holds direct responsibility for the financial operations and proper application of accounting principles, practices, and procedures for all financial activities of the market operations. The CFO is responsible for monitoring the financial performance and the maintenance of appropriate financial plans and forecasts. This role reports directly to the Central Illinois Market President & CEO with a matrixed reporting structure to the HSHS Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and the Physician Enterprise President.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned collaborative financial leader that is comfortable managing in a matrix environment with a proven track record in successfully managing all financial operations of a region made up of multiple acute care and outpatient settings by collaborating with other leaders to optimize success. The ideal candidate is also comfortable participating in establishing and implementing strategic business plans and aligning operations and strategy within the market and with overall Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS) strategies and goals. This leader must be comfortable flexing responsibility across multiple locations and continue to evolve to align with market structures. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have strong involvement with the communities they serve.

• Based in Springfield, IL with full market scope
• Oversight of all market financial operations
• Highly visible and critical role
• Reports directly to the Central Illinois Market President & CEO
• Relocation package
• Base salary and annual incentive

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or related field is required.
• Master’s degree in finance, business, health care administration, or related field is preferred.
• Ten or more years of accounting and/or finance experience is required; four out of the ten years must be in a hospital system or hospital market setting.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is preferred.

Benefits:

HSHS has comprehensive benefit package designed exclusively for executive leaders. A variety of medical/dental/vision offerings along with unlimited time off, annual compensation incentive, relocation package, and robust retirement plan are just a few of our exciting offerings.

Central IL Market Hospital Statistics:

• St. John’s Hospital - Springfield
  • HSHS Flagship hospital
  • Level 1 trauma center
  • Level 2 pediatric trauma center
  • Staffed Beds: 422
  • Annual admissions: 18,843
  • Active Medical Staff: 1,094
  • Total colleagues: 2,010
  • Nursing staff: 1,178
  • Annual Surgical Cases: 13,970
  • Annual Emergency Room Visits: 45,651
  • Births: 2,117
• St. Mary’s Hospital - Decatur
  • 3,603 surgical cases
  • 4,757 admissions
  • 23,414 ER visits
  • HSHS St. Mary’s Hospital – Decatur Future Plans:
    • In 2023, HSHS entered a new era of healthcare in Decatur. The hospital has begun to implement a modernization plan that features a major infrastructure renovation to update clinical spaces, improve patient room amenities and improve the patient experience. This latest investment, totaling approximately $90 million, will result in the modernization of the clinical space to enable hospital colleagues to continue the Mission of the Hospital Sisters to serve our current patients and future generations. The project is scheduled to be completed in the summer of 2026.
  • St. Francis Hospital - Litchfield
    • Bed count: 25
    • Annual inpatient admissions: 1,091
    • Annual births: 147
    • Annual emergency room visits: 10,901
    • Annual surgical cases: 1,062
    • Non-clinical colleagues: 211
    • Medical staff: 248
  • St. Anthony Memorial Hospital – Effingham
    • Bed count: 133
    • Average Daily Census: 30
    • Annual surgical cases: 2,798
    • Annual Admissions: 3,488
    • Annual emergency room visits: 23,824
  • Good Shephard Hospital – Shelbyville
    • Bed count: 30
    • Average Daily Census: 5
    • Annual surgical cases: 173
    • Annual admissions: 318
    • Annual emergency room visits: 4,469

Pay Range: $334,100 – $393,000

HSHS Information:

Throughout communities in Illinois and Wisconsin, 13 hospitals, numerous community-based health centers and clinics, our 13,000+ colleagues have built a culture based on our solid core values of respect, care, competence, and joy. These are the ideals we believe in, work by, and live each day.

Built upon more than 145 years of service to the communities we serve, we now look to the future and our place in it as a health care system that strives to continually improve processes, procedures, and outcomes with the latest and most advanced technologies and treatments. Regardless of how far our passion for excellence carries us, our focus will always remain on the most important person in our entire organization: The patient.