The **Senior** **Director, Revenue Cycle** is a key leader within our organization, responsible for ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of our collections process. This role involves providing expertise and leadership in overseeing RCM processes, ensuring accurate reporting, and driving the successful adoption and implementation of new standards and practices. The Senior Director will focus on managing and improving the revenue cycle, including enhancing operational policies and procedures, ensuring compliance, and maintaining a strong internal control environment. This position plays a critical role in overseeing the monthly revenue processes, developing and refining operational systems, and ensuring that all revenue-related activities align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements. The candidate should have expertise in managing outsourced vendors and leading both internal and external team members. Process improvement and policy creation will be a key focus of the role and the desired candidate will need a strong ability to critically think and execute on a plan. Management of a team of manager/supervisors and individual contributors will also be required with a strong ability to strategically align personnel where they can be the most successful. Key areas of focus will be to help evaluate and establish key productivity metrics within the various areas of the RCM such as Billing, AR Follow-up, Denial Review, Payment Integrity/Underpayment, and Payment posting. **Specific duties include, but are not limited to:** + Manage day-to-day operations. + Provide strategic and critical thinking skills to improve processes and achieve desired KPI targets of AR Days, Net Collection Rate, Denial Rate, and Bad Debt. Overseeing the productivity and success of revenue cycle operations internal and external Managing day-to-day benchmarks for revenue cycle staff, including organizing training, education, and ongoing monitoring of productivity and quality. + Collaborating with the Vice President of Revenue Cycle Services to ensure accurate revenue forecasting and EBITDA targets are achieved. + Coordinating revenue cycle services to ensure delivery in accordance with operational support, policies, and procedures, ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements. + Serving as a liaison with clients, which includes producing monthly reports, reviewing data during meetings, monitoring denied claims, analyzing trends, and updating clients on future regulatory changes. + Working with the Training Specialist to develop and implement training programs. Generating new ideas and approaches to advance services and programs within the division. Ensuring and promoting the confidentiality of client and business proprietary, privileged information. Assisting with specific product requirements for current and future products. **Position Requirements:** + Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. + Minimum 10 years of Revenue Cycle Management experience and knowledgeable about key areas within RCM (Authorization, Coding, and Billing) and minimum 5 years of leading and managing RCM team members to include billing, follow-up, cash collections, and cash posting functions. + Proven ability and experience in building, implementing, and scaling processes, projects, and programs from the ground up. + Highly organized: must be able to stay personally organized while managing the priorities of the executive and the team. + Experience pulling, compiling, and reporting on various types of critical data via multiple different tools to a variety of audiences, strong ability to synthesize data & analytics. + Ability to quickly learn and understand the business and then advise team on cross functional impacts. + 20% Travel may be required. **Preferred:** + Certified Revenue Cycle Representative + Certified Healthcare Financial Professional + Demonstrated ability to navigate change and ambiguity, experience successfully maneuvering unstructured problems and driving solutions. + Experience successfully managing a changing and challenging, workload of tasks and directives, keeping the work simple and highly efficient. + A high degree of empathy and the ability to dive in and understand the motivations of various stakeholders, establishing high levels of trust with others. **Physical Requirements:** Standard office environment. More than 50% of the time: + Sit, stand, and walk. + Repetitive movement of hands, arms and legs. + See, speak and hear to be able to communicate with patients. Less than 50% of the time: + Stoop, kneel or crawl. + Climb and balance. + Carry and lift 10-20 pounds. **Residents living in CA, WA, CO, HI, IL, Jersey City, NJ, and NY** **click here (http://drive.google.com/file/d/1mSW3\_6QxhtBdWWjT5MbR2KIpwukDDVRM/view?usp=sharing) to view pay range** **information.** Akumin Operating Corp. and its divisions are an equal opportunity employer and we believe in strength through diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other things, age, race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity & expression, status as a protected veteran, or disability.