# Chief Financial Officer

**Company**: knownwell
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary and bonus structure
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/knownwell/9f60d113-13d0-47b4-ad0e-5ddb53d2278c
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_79b1af28-158

## Description

Join our dynamic company as a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and play a key role in shaping our financial strategy and growth. As a core member of the executive leadership team, you will partner closely with the CEO, Board of Directors, and senior leaders on company strategy, growth priorities, and capital allocation.

Responsibilities:

- Translate business strategy into financial plans, operating models, and long-range forecasts that support sustainable scaling

- Define, monitor, and continuously improve key financial and operational metrics; proactively surface risks, opportunities, and trade-offs

Financial Planning, Reporting & Governance:

- Lead enterprise-wide financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and scenario modeling, including multi-year strategic plans

- Prepare and present clear, compelling financial reporting and insights to the Board, investors, and other stakeholders

- Ensure strong financial controls, GAAP-compliant reporting, audits, and adherence to healthcare regulatory and reporting requirements

Revenue Cycle & Healthcare Economics:

- Own and optimize the revenue cycle management (RCM) function, ensuring best-in-class collections, payor performance, and cash conversion

- Partner with actuarial and clinical leadership to price, model, and manage risk for value-based care and at-risk contracts

Corporate Development & Capital Strategy:

- Lead corporate development efforts, including identifying, evaluating, and executing M&A, partnerships, and strategic investments

- Oversee financial due diligence, valuation, deal structuring, and post-acquisition integration

AI, Data & Financial Innovation:

- Champion the use of AI, automation, and advanced analytics across finance, revenue cycle, and forecasting to improve accuracy, speed, and decision-making

Team Leadership & Culture:

- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing finance organization

- Establish a culture of accountability, rigor, transparency, and continuous improvement

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA, CPA, or CFA strongly preferred

- 12+ years of progressive financial leadership experience, including senior leadership roles within healthcare services organizations

- Proven experience in growth-stage or PE/VC-backed companies, with a track record of scaling financial infrastructure

- Deep expertise in healthcare reimbursement, including fee-for-service, government payors, and value-based / risk-based payment models

- Strong understanding of corporate practice of medicine structures and healthcare regulatory requirements

- Demonstrated experience leading fundraising efforts and managing investor relations

- Extensive experience with P&L ownership, unit economics, profitability analysis, and GAAP accounting

- Exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and communication skills, with the ability to influence non-financial stakeholders

- Comfort operating in ambiguity and fast-paced environments, with a bias toward action and outcomes

- Strong executive presence and credibility with Boards, investors, and external partners

Additional Information:

- Fully remote opportunity

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance

- 401K retirement plan with company match

- Up to 20 days of PTO per year + company holidays

- Up to 14 weeks of parental leave (12 for non-birthing parents)

- Annual work from home stipend for remote employees

## Skills

### Required
- financial planning
- budgeting
- forecasting
- GAAP accounting
- healthcare reimbursement
- corporate practice of medicine
- fundraising
- investor relations
- P&L ownership
- unit economics
- profitability analysis

### Nice to have
- AI
- automation
- advanced analytics
- revenue cycle management
- value-based care
- at-risk contracts
- M&A
- partnerships
- strategic investments