[Remote] Chief Financial and Strategy Officer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Catalight is the parent organization leading a family of companies focused on transforming home and community-based care. They are seeking a dynamic Chief Financial and Strategy Officer to architect financial and operational infrastructure, drive cross-functional alignment, and ensure equitable access to services for individuals with developmental disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Inspire Trust: Provide timely, accurate, and helpful financial information to the board and maintain strong relationships with board members. Focus on long-term strategy, not just immediate operations
• Build Healthy Teams: Cultivate, develop, and motivate a healthy, high-performing team committed to growth, development, and innovation. Foster creative problem-solving and a growth mindset throughout your organization
• Drive Value: Manage multi-business portfolios by assessing the maximum value each business can create. Optimize resource allocation and identify growth opportunities. Partner with the board and C-Suite to pursue new capabilities, products, and services through investments
• Activate the Digital Agenda: Lead data governance and quality standards. Drive innovation through new investment approaches and business models. Bring new business modeling expertise and structure deals that create long-term value
• Modernize Skills: Foster finance teams that prioritize partnership and value creation by investing in continuous workforce retraining and upskilling. Bring together data science and traditional finance expertise, and advocate for the integration of emerging technologies such as blockchain, machine learning, and AI
• Anticipate Market Change: Use internal and external data to fuel forecasting models. Transform risk from a passive compliance role to a strategic lever for growth
• Optimize how work gets done: Make smart decisions about what to build in-house versus outsource. Structure teams (onshore, nearshore, offshore) to deliver value, not just reduce costs
• Execute as a Change Agent: Act as a builder at heart, bringing both discipline and entrepreneurial energy to create systems that scale

Skills

• Strong people leader with a history of building scalable growth ecosystems from the ground up within quickly moving and creative industries or roles
• Challenges the status quo and embraces disruptive innovation
• Leads transformative initiatives and drives systemic change
• Navigates ambiguity and uncertainty with a growth mindset
• Strong connector with the ability to build relationships with diverse groups
• Passion for creating inclusive and equitable environments
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals
• Strong user advocate, elevating the needs of any audience in the growth design process
• Effectively advocates for historically excluded or forgotten groups
• Approaches work with empathy, engages in continuous feedback
• Understands that humans have biases and are imperfect as a baseline
• Effectively working with an ethnically, socioeconomically, linguistically, and culturally diverse population
• Understanding of the social determinants of health and healthcare disparities
• Experience in working with people with disabilities and underserved populations and addressing health inequities
• Advocate for the wellbeing and needs of your team to be effective contributors in our ecosystem
• Committed to employee + community well-being and work-life harmony in your leadership
• Ability to foster a safe and supportive work culture in all rooms
• Willingness and commitment to personal self-reflection and systems re-thinking
• Ability to understand your physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing needs with a willingness to co-create boundaries that allow you to sustainably show up and honor your humanity
• Familiarity with the latest tech and competitive generative ecosystems
• Understanding of how data infrastructure, business intelligence platforms, and technology enable business transformation, not just supports it
• Highly effective written, verbal, and visual communication skills
• Ability to translate complex financial and operational concepts for board members, executives, and frontline teams alike
• Flexibility and willingness to change approach and work tasks based on your evolved strategy grounded in insights
• Concurrent ability to stand with conviction for areas that require us to challenge the status quo
• Maintaining the highest levels of confidentiality
• Ability to operate with Microsoft tools, including (Outlook, Word, Excel, Teams, etc.), and a variety of AI-based tools
• Ability to communicate effectively within the work environment, read and write using the primary language within the workplace
• Visual and auditory ability to work with clients, staff and others in the workplace continuously
• Frequent speaking and listening (25-75%) to clients, staff, and others in the workplace
• Utilize computer and cell phone for effective communication
• Ability to obtain and maintain criminal record clearance through the Department of Justice (DOJ)
• Ability to obtain and maintain clearance through the Office of Inspector General
• Must attend any required training, e.g., HIPAA compliance, workplace safety, cyber security, and inclusive leadership for managers
• Ability to develop and execute long-term growth strategies
• Strong understanding of financial metrics and the ability to drive revenue growth
• Experience in leveraging digital technologies to improve efficiency and patient outcomes
• Understanding of international healthcare markets and the ability to adapt to different cultural contexts

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