Senior Director of Finance and Business Analytics

Who You Are

As a Senior Director of Finance and Business Analytics, you have a direct impact on Iris Telehealth's success as we continue to set industry standards in the behavioral health space. You are a big-picture thinker with proven finance and senior management experience in high-growth organizations. You have an unprecedented reputation for being a people whisperer while driving new levels of financial performance in every organization you have been a part of. 

Why This Role Matters 

The Senior Director of Finance & Business Analytics is central to Iris Telehealth’s ability to grow sustainably, make disciplined investment decisions, and operate with financial clarity. This role ensures leaders have accurate, forward-looking insights to guide strategy, performance, and resource allocation as the business scales. Ultimately, it turns financial and operational data into confidence, accountability, and long-term impact. 

What You’ll Be Doing 

The Senior Director of Finance and Business Analytics will be a key cross-functional partner to Iris’s growing business lines and leadership. The Senior Director will help drive continued growth and profitability through team leadership, broad collaboration, and a technology-driven approach to financial and operational management. As a Senior Director, you are tasked with providing key financial and business insights to the broader organization and leadership team, ensuring that we are able to meet our financial goals. 

In this role, you will: 

• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of analysts and managers to drive productivity, engagement, and impact 
• Identify, develop, and curate standardized financial performance reporting for the Board, senior leadership, and department leaders 
• Own financial planning, reporting, and analysis across the entire enterprise, including forecasting across all three financial statements 
• Drive the monthly and quarterly forecast and annual strategic planning process, keeping a balanced view of risks and opportunities along the way 
• Demonstrate clear understanding of the business through your insightful analytics and action-oriented commentary 
• Conduct meaningful variance analysis to highlight risks and opportunities to business partners 
• Support key investment decisions by partnering with the Product and Solutions organization to build clear pro forma models that will be used to underwrite Iris’s growth strategy 
• Partner with key stakeholders to be their first-choice business partner and empower a high-functioning team to do the same redundant already above. 
• Manage long-term revenue forecasting, including cohort and retention analysis, and the definition and measurement of current and future business KPIs  
• Lead process improvement initiatives and establish best practices across weekly, monthly, and quarterly FP&A deliverables   
• Collaborate with senior leaders to provide analytical rigor and evaluate strategic initiatives  
• Monitor industry trends to understand and communicate potential implications for the business   
• Embrace continuous learning, including the willingness to learn from mistakes and improve over time  

What Success Looks Like  

Within 3 months: You have a strong grasp of Iris’s business model, financial drivers, and performance metrics, have built trust with senior leaders, and have defined a clear roadmap to strengthen FP&A processes and reporting, including identifying process improvements 

Within 6 months: You are delivering consistent, decision-ready financial insights, have elevated forecasting and KPI visibility across the organization, and are leading a high-performing Finance & Business Analytics team that operates as true business partners. You’ve also made a difference in how we are leveraging technology to drive efficiencies into the Finance organization. 

Within 12 months: You are recognized as a trusted strategic leader who drives financial clarity, improves planning and forecast accuracy, and contributes directly to sustainable growth, operational efficiency, and profitability. 

What You’ll Bring 

You might be a great fit for this role if you:   

• Bring extensive experience within financial planning & analysis, strategic finance, corporate finance, and/or corporate strategy in high-growth organizations; demonstrated skills, behaviors, and readiness to take ownership matter more to us than a specific number of years 
• Take a player-coach approach to leadership, willingly rolling up your sleeves and stepping in wherever the work is needed 
• Demonstrate strong executive leadership skills with experience partnering at the board, investor, and executive leadership levels   
• Have outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to influence, align, and build trust across the organization   
• Have a proven track record of cultivating collaborative working relationships and are known for your ability to bring people together (you may have even earned the nickname “People Whisperer”)  
• Demonstrate mastery of large-scale data analysis and the effective use of analytical tools to drive insight and decision-making   
• Bring a continuous improvement mindset, regularly questioning the status quo and identifying opportunities to improve processes and outcomes  
• Lead with humility, strong self- and social-awareness, and a sense of humor that helps navigate complex and high-pressure environments  

A bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field is helpful, but we’re most interested in your skills, capabilities, and ability to learn and grow in the role. Ten years of experience in a senior finance role including at least 5 years of management experience. 

How We Work at Iris Telehealth  

We evaluate leaders not only on what they deliver, but how they lead and the impact their decisions and influence have across the organization over time.   

Behavior (How You Lead) 

• Builds deep, trusted partnerships with executive leadership and functional teams by bringing financial and operational insight into strategic conversations, aligning stakeholders around priorities, and enabling informed, enterprise-level decision-making. 
• Translates financial, analytical, and operational complexity into clear, actionable narratives for senior leadership and the Board, navigating high-stakes discussions with confidence, diplomacy, and sound judgment. 
• Applies strong financial acumen, analytical rigor, and business judgment to set clear performance expectations, evaluate trade-offs, and drive disciplined execution in support of sustainable growth and profitability. 

Impact (How Your Work Scales) 

• Guides high-impact, cross-functional decisions by providing timely, objective analysis and recommendations, balancing independent judgment with collaboration to advance Iris’s strategic objectives. 
• Develops and leads a high-performing Finance & Business Analytics organization, establishes consistent planning and reporting standards, and strengthens analytical infrastructure to support a growing, complex business. 
• Provides stability and clarity during periods of growth, ambiguity, or change by improving visibility into performance, evolving financial processes, and helping leaders understand the implications of decisions while staying aligned to Iris’s mission and values. 

What’s In It For You? 

We care about our employees and want to make sure they have everything they need to do their job well. To us, that means having the resources live their best life (both at work and at home): 

• Highly competitive compensation (base salary + bonus + stock options) 
• Generous PTO policy + colleagues who insist on covering for you so you can truly unplug 
• 100% of the premium cost of healthcare for you and 75% for your dependents 
• $50/month for a gym membership 
• $50/month for your cell phone bill 
• 100% employer-paid life insurance coverage 
• 401k Plan with company match 
• Paid parental leave 
• Optional: Short-term and long-term disability insurance 
• Coworkers who create Slack channels like “sometimesiwetmyplants” 

Who You’ll Work With  

These awesome individuals are the leaders of our​​ Finance and Accounting team. A hire joining this team would report directly to Caroline Burton.  

Caroline Burton, Chief Financial Officer  

Who Leads Our Mission                                               

• Andy Flanagan, Chief Executive Officer   
• Sarah Fyfe, Chief People Officer   
• Caroline Burton, Chief Financial Officer  
• Alli Fair, Chief Operating Officer  
• Dr. Tom Milam, Chief Medical Officer  
• David Bartley, Chief Solutions Officer      

About Iris 

Iris Telehealth is a leading provider of telepsychiatry services for community mental health centers, community health centers, hospitals, and health systems across the U.S. We strive to deliver clinically sound and financially sustainable telepsychiatry in order to help our partners meet their behavioral health goals and save their communities. 

The key to our success is our people. And, our number one corporate value is People Over All Else. We try to live that value every day with everything we do. That’s why we’re looking for top talent to help us deliver high-quality and efficient clinical services all over the country. 

Iris Telehealth has a culture of ownership, humor, and mastery. Our team is small enough that you can see how your work affects the bottom line and big enough to have the urgency and excitement of a Fortune 500 company. We like to experiment. We're proud to make mistakes (but more proud of our successes). We're always trying to get better. People that work for us are expected to question the way we do things. We want all of our employees to fight for what they think is right -- because that’s how we’ll continue to grow and improve as a company.  

Additional Information 

• The Staying Power of Telehealth 
• Iris Telehealth Certified as Most Loved Workplace 

Research shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply for roles unless they meet every qualification listed in the job description. At Iris Telehealth, we're most interested in finding the best candidate for the job--and that may be someone that comes from a nontraditional background. We welcome applicants with diverse experiences and will consider any equivalent combination of skills, knowledge, education, and experience to meet the minimum qualifications. If this role excites you, we encourage you to think broadly about your background and skill set for the role.  

Iris Telehealth is committed to embracing, valuing, and thriving on difference. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs alone. Nurturing inclusion, equity, and belonging in both the workplace and our community is a nonstop and long-term commitment to one of our values, Suck Less Every Day (SLED). Iris is proud to continue to be an equal opportunity employer, and we commit to never stop doing the work in this space.