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Finance Systems Manager jobs are a strong fit for F-1 OPT students with backgrounds in accounting information systems, ERP platforms, or financial technology. Most roles qualify as STEM OPT extensions under CIP codes like Management Information Systems. Your 12-month OPT window, with a potential 24-month STEM extension, gives employers a meaningful runway for sponsorship.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
This is a remote position that works predominately Pacific Coast time zone.
As our System Manager, Payer, you will provide strategic leadership and expert oversight for all aspects of our organization's payer relations and contracting, ensuring optimal financial performance and sustainable partnerships with health plans.
Every day you will manage a team responsible for negotiating, implementing, and monitoring contracts with various governmental and commercial payers across our system.
To be successful in this role, you must possess strong analytical and negotiation skills, a comprehensive understanding of healthcare reimbursement methodologies, managed care models, and regulatory requirements, and proven leadership experience in payer contracting and relations within a complex healthcare environment.
- Manage the labor and operations of the Payer Analytics & Economics team including the hiring, orienting, developing and managing of staff.
- Oversee quality control and quality assurance of Payer Analytics & Economics analytics deliverables and financial models to support the negotiation and implementation of appropriate reimbursement rates associated language, between physicians/hospitals and payers/networks for managed care contracting initiatives.
- Review and accurately interpret contract terms, including payer policies and procedures to appropriately contract performance and influence strategic pricing strategies.
- Monitor contract financial performance. Analyze and publish managed care performance statements and determine profitability.
- Provide training and oversight of the modeling of proposed/existing payer contracts negotiated by payer strategy and operations, including expected and actual revenues/volumes, past performance, proposed contract language and regulatory changes.
- Oversee and prepare complex service line reimbursement analyses and financial performance analyses. Develop methods and models (involving multiple variables and assumptions) to identify the implications/ramifications/results of a wide variety of new/revised strategies, approaches, provisions, parameters and rate structures aimed at establishing appropriate reimbursement levels. Prepare and effectively present results to senior leadership, and other key stakeholders, for review and decision making activities.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Healthcare or related field. Equivalent education and experience in related field(s) may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Five (5) years of experience in contributing to profitability through detailed financial analysis and efficient delivery of data management strategies supporting contract analysis, trend management, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning in the healthcare industry.
- Two (2) years of experience in a supervisory role.
- Strongly prefer hospital or managed care experience.
- Requires some experience with SQL queries and Excel. EPIC experience a big plus.
Where You'll Work
Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.
Pay Range
$47.41 - $62.81 /hour

Job Summary and Responsibilities
This is a remote position that works predominately Pacific Coast time zone.
As our System Manager, Payer, you will provide strategic leadership and expert oversight for all aspects of our organization's payer relations and contracting, ensuring optimal financial performance and sustainable partnerships with health plans.
Every day you will manage a team responsible for negotiating, implementing, and monitoring contracts with various governmental and commercial payers across our system.
To be successful in this role, you must possess strong analytical and negotiation skills, a comprehensive understanding of healthcare reimbursement methodologies, managed care models, and regulatory requirements, and proven leadership experience in payer contracting and relations within a complex healthcare environment.
- Manage the labor and operations of the Payer Analytics & Economics team including the hiring, orienting, developing and managing of staff.
- Oversee quality control and quality assurance of Payer Analytics & Economics analytics deliverables and financial models to support the negotiation and implementation of appropriate reimbursement rates associated language, between physicians/hospitals and payers/networks for managed care contracting initiatives.
- Review and accurately interpret contract terms, including payer policies and procedures to appropriately contract performance and influence strategic pricing strategies.
- Monitor contract financial performance. Analyze and publish managed care performance statements and determine profitability.
- Provide training and oversight of the modeling of proposed/existing payer contracts negotiated by payer strategy and operations, including expected and actual revenues/volumes, past performance, proposed contract language and regulatory changes.
- Oversee and prepare complex service line reimbursement analyses and financial performance analyses. Develop methods and models (involving multiple variables and assumptions) to identify the implications/ramifications/results of a wide variety of new/revised strategies, approaches, provisions, parameters and rate structures aimed at establishing appropriate reimbursement levels. Prepare and effectively present results to senior leadership, and other key stakeholders, for review and decision making activities.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Healthcare or related field. Equivalent education and experience in related field(s) may be considered in lieu of degree.
- Five (5) years of experience in contributing to profitability through detailed financial analysis and efficient delivery of data management strategies supporting contract analysis, trend management, budgeting, forecasting, strategic planning in the healthcare industry.
- Two (2) years of experience in a supervisory role.
- Strongly prefer hospital or managed care experience.
- Requires some experience with SQL queries and Excel. EPIC experience a big plus.
Where You'll Work
Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.
Pay Range
$47.41 - $62.81 /hour
How to Get Visa Sponsorship as a Finance Systems Manager
Target employers with active ERP implementations
Companies mid-implementation on Oracle, SAP, or Workday are actively hiring systems managers and are more likely to sponsor. These projects run 18 to 36 months, giving you natural leverage when H-1B sponsorship conversations come up.
Frame your degree as a systems qualification
Finance Systems Manager roles typically require a degree in MIS, accounting information systems, or computer science. Explicitly connect your coursework to the role in your resume and cover letter to strengthen the specialty occupation case for future H-1B sponsorship.
Prioritize mid-size companies over large enterprises
Mid-size firms running lean finance teams often need a single systems owner urgently. That urgency increases willingness to sponsor. Large enterprises may have internal mobility programs that deprioritize OPT candidates who need sponsorship within 12 months.
Highlight STEM OPT eligibility upfront
Many hiring managers do not know that finance systems roles often qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Mentioning this in early conversations reframes you as a three-year hire, not a one-year risk, and changes the sponsorship calculus significantly.
Obtain certifications in key ERP platforms
A Workday, SAP, or Oracle certification signals employer-ready skills and reduces training costs. Finance teams facing system migrations will see you as immediately useful, making the sponsorship investment easier to justify to HR and finance leadership.
Align your OPT start date with Q1 hiring cycles
Finance departments finalize budgets and headcount in Q4, with most hires starting in Q1. Timing your OPT activation to align with January start dates puts you in the pool when Finance Systems Manager roles are most actively filled.
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Do Finance Systems Manager roles qualify for the STEM OPT extension?
Many Finance Systems Manager positions qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension, particularly when the role is classified under CIP codes like Management Information Systems (11.0401) or Computer and Information Systems Management (11.1001). The key factor is whether your degree and the role's technical requirements align with a designated STEM field. Confirm your school's DSO can certify the extension before accepting an offer.
Will employers sponsor an H-1B for a Finance Systems Manager on OPT?
Yes, Finance Systems Manager roles are strong candidates for H-1B sponsorship because they typically require a specialized degree in MIS, accounting information systems, or computer science, which satisfies the specialty occupation requirement. Employers running major ERP implementations are especially motivated to retain systems talent. Use Migrate Mate to find Finance Systems Manager roles at companies with a history of sponsoring work visas.
What degree backgrounds support a Finance Systems Manager OPT application?
Degrees in Management Information Systems, Accounting Information Systems, Finance with a technology concentration, or Computer Science are the strongest fits. These fields map directly to the technical and financial responsibilities of the role and support both the specialty occupation argument for H-1B petitions and STEM OPT extension eligibility. A degree in general business or finance alone may require additional documentation.
How much time does an OPT student actually have to secure sponsorship in this role?
With standard OPT you have 12 months. If your degree qualifies for STEM OPT, that extends to 36 months total. The H-1B lottery runs once annually with an October 1 start date, so timing matters. If you start OPT in January, you may need to file for cap-subject H-1B within your first three months of employment to maintain status without a gap.
Are there specific industries where Finance Systems Manager OPT jobs are most common?
Financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and technology companies with large finance operations are the heaviest employers of Finance Systems Managers. Firms actively upgrading legacy systems to cloud-based ERP platforms hire most aggressively. These companies also tend to have established immigration programs, making sponsorship conversations more straightforward than at smaller firms without prior experience hiring OPT candidates.
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