• Chief Executive Officer, KCG
• Director, Knight Cancer Institute
• Chief Experience Officer, Knight Cancer Group
• Marketing/Communications, Knight Cancer Group
• Chief Human Resources Officer, Knight Cancer Group

Reporting to the President of the Knight Cancer Group, Dr. Brian Druker, and working in close partnership with OHSU executive leadership, the Chief Financial Officer, Knight Cancer Group will serve as the senior financial leader for the organization, guiding the financial strategy, stewardship, and long‑range planning of a nationally preeminent academic cancer program. As a key member of the Knight Cancer Group leadership team, the CFO will play a critical role in ensuring the financial strength, sustainability, and operational alignment required to support complex clinical, research, and academic programs across inpatient, outpatient, and affiliated sites.

The CFO will oversee all aspects of financial planning and performance, including operating and capital budgeting, funds flow, financial analytics, decision support, and governance across clinical operations, research programs, and academic missions. This leader will partner closely with physician, scientific, and operational leadership in KCG, Knight Cancer Institute, and OHSU to translate institutional strategy into financially sound execution—supporting program growth, infrastructure investment, and operational scale while maintaining strong financial discipline, transparency, and accountability. The CFO, Knight Cancer Group will provide clear financial leadership in a highly matrixed academic environment, bringing structure, insight, and strategic perspective to complex decisions. This individual will foster a culture of collaboration and rigor, enabling leaders across the organization to make informed, data‑driven decisions while ensuring the financial platform can support the Knight Cancer Group’s continued evolution and long‑term success.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Enterprise Building and Decision Infrastructure

•Builds and scales the Knight Cancer Group’s finance organization, establishing the operating model, governance, relationship with OHSU financial leadership, and capabilities needed to support a rapidly growing, complex academic cancer enterprise.

•Recruits, develops, and mentors senior financial leaders, ensuring strong partnership with clinical, research, and operational leadership.

•Strengthens financial data and analytics capabilities, bringing together finance, performance management, and decision‑support expertise to enable timely, insight‑driven decisions at the executive and service‑line levels.

Enterprise Budgeting, Planning, and Decision Support

•Leads enterprise‑level budgeting, financial planning, and decision support for the Knight Cancer Group, overseeing operating and capital budgets in partnership with clinical leadership and OHSU finance to ensure rigor, transparency, and alignment.

•Collaborates with KCG CEO to support physician and service line leaders across sites with resource, staffing, and capacity planning, providing actionable performance insights to guide evaluation, prioritization, and alignment with broader OHSU clinical and academic priorities.

•Serves as the chief financial steward for growth initiatives and investments through pro formas, modeling, and benchmarking, driving financial sustainability and data‑driven decision‑making to guide capital allocation, assess risk and return, and ensure long-term financial sustainability across a complex, multidisciplinary cancer enterprise.

Financial Reporting, Compliance, and Controls

•Oversees financial reporting and performance management, ensuring accurate, timely monthly and annual financial statements, dashboards, and management reporting that support disciplined decision‑making.

•Leads internal controls, audit, and compliance activities, managing tax, audit, and advisory engagements and ensuring adherence to regulatory, financial, and governance requirements.

•Builds and develops high‑performing finance teams, strengthening analytical capabilities, financial transparency, and accountability across the Knight Cancer Group’s clinical and physician enterprise.

Revenue Management and Reimbursement

•Provides financial oversight of revenue cycle performance, partnering with OHSU revenue cycle and reimbursement leadership to monitor net revenue, payer mix, and collection effectiveness across Knight Cancer clinical operations.

•Collaborates with internal teams and external vendors to ensure accurate coding, billing, and reimbursement processes, while maintaining strong controls, transparency, and performance accountability.

•Leads process improvement and standardization efforts to strengthen revenue integrity, optimize reimbursement, and support consistent financial performance across a complex cancer care enterprise.

Strategic Financial Planning and Business Development

•Leads long‑range strategic financial planning, partnering with Knight Cancer and OHSU leadership to develop multi‑year financial plans that support institutional priorities and growth.

•Builds financial models and business cases to evaluate strategic initiatives, investments, and scenarios, providing clear insight to guide prioritization and executive decision‑making.

•Provides financial leadership on business development and affiliations, supporting financing strategies, evaluating partnerships and opportunities, and contributing to governance forums and executive communications.

The Candidate

Experience, Qualifications & Competencies

•10+ years of progressive accounting, finance, and executive leadership experience demonstrating strong conceptual, analytical, and strategic thinking in complex, mission-driven organizations.

•Senior financial leadership experience in an academic medical center, large integrated health system, or comparably complex healthcare organization, with demonstrated expertise in physician payment models, specialty care delivery, and matrixed governance structures.

•Comprehensive expertise in accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, benchmarking, and compliance as applied to physician organizations and related not-for-profit entities.

•Proven ability to develop and execute multi-year financial strategies that balance growth, sustainability, and mission impact across clinical, academic, and research enterprises.

•Demonstrated success overseeing enterprise-wide financial operations, including goal-setting, prioritization, budget development, performance monitoring, financial decision support, and transparent reporting.

•Experience serving in a senior financial leadership role during periods of significant organizational transformation, including entity formation, restructuring, delegated authority models, or new operating structures (e.g., launch or scaling of a 501(c)(3)).

•Expertise in financial stewardship of large-scale philanthropic investments, including capital deployment, restricted fund management, long-term planning, and accountability to donors, boards, and public stakeholders.

•Strong understanding of capital planning and financing strategies, including major facility projects, service expansion, technology investments, and clinical growth initiatives.

•Deep knowledge of healthcare reimbursement, value-based care models, financial risk management, and clinical margin optimization, particularly within oncology or specialty care environments.

•Demonstrated ability to apply broad knowledge of finance and health system operations to identify performance improvement opportunities and lead process owners through successful change management initiatives.

•Track record of partnering with clinical, operational, and executive leaders to align financial performance with quality, access, safety, and experience outcomes.

•Experience leveraging data-enabled finance and digital decision-support tools, including financial analytics, forecasting models, performance dashboards, and benchmarking systems.

•Proven success managing inter-organizational financial relationships with academic institutions, joint ventures, affiliates, or external partners, including complex contractual and shared-risk arrangements.

•Strong leadership skills in communication and executive-level presentation, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear, actionable insights for senior leaders, boards, physicians, and external stakeholders.

•Demonstrated success influencing and leading cross-functional teams, including both direct and indirect reports, within highly matrixed and shared-governance environments.

•Experience working effectively with boards, finance and audit committees, external auditors, and regulators, ensuring strong governance, risk management, and compliance.

•Exceptional critical thinking, facilitation, problem-solving, and analytical skills, coupled with sound judgment and the ability to balance competing priorities in dynamic, evolving environments.

•Possesses a personal leadership presence characterized by integrity, transparency, and collaboration, with the ability to inspire confidence, build trust, and motivate others in support of KCG’s mission, vision, and values.

•Demonstrated commitment to ethical financial leadership, equity, and transparency, ensuring that financial decisions reinforce institutional values and public trust.

•Ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, serve as a trusted strategic advisor, and contribute meaningfully to enterprise-level decision-making across multiple missions and stakeholders.

•Commitment to maintaining a respectful workplace, with full compliance to OHSU and KCG codes of conduct, policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Education

Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field and master’s degree required. Degree must be obtained through an accredited institution. Education is verified.

OHSU Core Competencies

Skills and competencies required for the role.

•Accountability: Ability to establish mutual agreements that result in clear responsibility, taking personal action to accomplish an agreed result and assuming personal responsibility for the results of behavior and actions.

•Integrity: Actions are consistent with ethical values. Honest in communication and actions.

•Diversity: Honors the uniqueness of each individual, challenges stereotypes and promotes sensitivity and inclusion. Functions effectively and respectfully within the context of varying cultural beliefs, behaviors and backgrounds.

•Respect: Demonstrates consideration and appreciation for colleagues, clients and customers.

•Service Orientation: Seeks opportunities to improve the work and work environment to better meet the needs of internal and external customers.

•Teamwork & Collaboration: Works cooperatively and productively with others to achieve shared goals.

•Communication: Demonstrates the ability to convey thoughts and ideas as well as understand perspective of others.

•Systems Thinking: Ability to see and understand whole systems and how elements within systems relate. Works cooperatively with others to use appropriate systems strengths, knowledge and cooperation to improve performance.

•Managing Resources: Meets performance goals and budget targets. Effectively manages departmental resources. Understands OHSU’s financial systems and uses them effectively. Demonstrates the financial acumen for managing budgets aggressively. Effectively manages vendor relationships to maximize contributions.

•Change Leader: Ability to act and provide leadership throughout the change process. Engages employees in the entire process and develops commitment for sustaining change.

•Developing Organizational Talent: Ability to recruit, retain and develop high-performing individuals aligned with OHSU’s goals and values. Completes performance reviews and development plans for all direct reports on time.

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