Sr. Manager - Corp Dev & Finance

Compensation range: $135,000-$175,000,

Position Summary

The Sr. Manager, Corporate Development & Finance is a new, high-ownership role within the Finance organization for Lifespark Senior Living, responsible for establishing the company's internal corporate development function while owning FP&A operations for newly acquired and newly managed communities. This role sits at the intersection of growth and finance: it drives transaction analysis, underwriting, and pro forma development for acquisitions, dispositions, and new management contracts, and then owns the financial onboarding, reporting stand-up, and ongoing FP&A support for communities entering the portfolio.

This is a foundational hire for the company's growth strategy. The role is expected to establish repeatable corporate development infrastructure, including underwriting standards, diligence playbooks, pro forma and ramp model templates, and post-close financial integration processes that scale with the portfolio. Success requires strong deal judgment, rigorous modeling discipline, executive-ready communication skills, and the ability to operate with significant autonomy across concurrent transactions and operational deadlines. The role carries a defined leadership trajectory with the expectation of expanding scope and team as the company's growth pipeline matures.

Position Functions and Responsibilities

Corporate Development & M&A

• Own end-to-end financial analysis for portfolio transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and new third-party management contracts, in partnership with the Director of Finance
• Build, own, and continuously refine underwriting models and pro formas, incorporating census and occupancy ramp assumptions, payor mix, rate strategy, labor and vendor expense builds, capital needs, and management fee economics
• Lead financial due diligence: coordinate data requests, validate seller / operator financials, normalize historical performance, and identify diligence findings that affect valuation, deal structure, or transition risk
• Develop investment summaries and transaction recommendations for the Director of Finance, SVP Finance, and executive leadership; present analysis and defend assumptions to internal and external stakeholders, including ownership groups and capital partners
• Establish and maintain the company's corporate development infrastructure with standardized underwriting templates, diligence checklists and playbooks, a transaction pipeline tracker, and post-close performance tracking against underwriting assumptions
• Support deal execution activities including LOI and term sheet analysis, purchase / management agreement financial terms, working capital considerations, and closing coordination with legal, accounting, and operations
• Monitor market activity, comparable transactions, and industry benchmarks to inform valuation perspectives and growth strategy

FP&A Operations - New & Managed Communities

• Own the financial onboarding of newly acquired or newly managed communities: stand up reporting, budgets, forecasts, and KPI tracking from day one of the management or ownership transition
• Build and maintain operational ramp models for new communities and manage performance against pro forma, in partnership with Operations leadership; identify, explain, and escalate material variances versus underwriting
• Serve as the primary FP&A business partner for new communities during their stabilization period and beyond, partnering with regional and community-level operators to drive census, rate, labor, and NOI performance
• Develop transition-period reporting packages and cadences for ownership groups on managed communities, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of delivery
• Transition stabilized communities into the core FP&A reporting infrastructure in partnership with the Director of Finance and broader FP&A team

Strategic Finance & Leadership

• Partner with the Director of Finance on portfolio-level strategy, including NOI margin enhancement initiatives, operational restructuring scenarios, and capital allocation analysis
• Prepare and deliver board, lender, and ownership-ready presentations covering transaction analysis, portfolio growth, and new-community performance
• Provide mentorship and analytical direction to the broader Lifespark FP&A team on transaction-related and new-community workstreams; contribute to hiring and team development as the function scales
• Support the evaluation and implementation of systems and tooling for corporate development and FP&A, in partnership with the Director of Finance

Ad Hoc & Special Projects

• Execute ad hoc financial modeling and analysis, including what-if and sensitivity analyses, break-even and contribution margin analyses, and ownership group requests
• Contribute to broader corporate development activities outside of Lifespark Senior Living, including enterprise-wide M&A, future debt / equity raises, and financing initiatives related to Lifespark's not-for-profit strategy
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Experience & Education

• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance, including 5+ years in M&A, corporate development, investment banking, or transaction advisory with direct ownership of underwriting and pro forma development
• Prior commercial banking, credit, or lending experience strongly valued for its underwriting rigor and capital markets perspective
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA strongly preferred
• Healthcare, senior living, or multi-site real estate / operating company experience preferred; demonstrated ability to rapidly learn unit economics in a new industry

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Expert-level financial modeling skills: three-statement models, pro formas, ramp and stabilization models, sensitivity and scenario analysis, and returns analysis (IRR, cash-on-cash, yield, coverage metrics)
• Demonstrated experience leading financial workstreams on live transactions, including diligence coordination across legal, accounting, and operational functions
• Ability to extract and synthesize data from multiple systems (ERP, HRIS, EMR) into clear, decision-ready outputs; comfort operating in Velixo, Sage Intacct, UKG, and August Health environments over time
• Executive presence and exceptional communication skills; able to present complex analysis and defend recommendations to senior leadership, ownership groups, and external counterparties
• High degree of autonomy, sound judgment under ambiguity, and the ability to manage concurrent transaction and operational deadlines
• High integrity, strong attention to detail, and a builder's mindset toward process, templates, and team infrastructure

Physical Demands

The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Employee must regularly (67-100% of the time) walk, sit, reach, squat, bend, stand, twist, stoop, crouch, and balance.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly (67-100% of the time) required to use hands and fingers to handle and feel, reach with hands and arms, talk, and hear.
• The employee regularly (67-100% of the time) lifts, moves, carries, pushes and/or pulls up to 10 pounds, and occasionally (up to 33% of the time) pushes and/or pulls up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment

• Office work is performed in a professional business office environment, well lit, clean, and hazard-free
• Office equipment is kept in good operating condition to enable work to be done efficiently
• Travel within the Twin Cities metropolitan area, with potential for periodic travel to transaction sites and new communities during diligence and onboarding periods
• Available to assist after hours as requested, including during active transaction periods

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  Annual Reviews/Raises{Shift differentials if applicable}
  

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  PaidTime Off - Vacation Time
  

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  Mileage reimbursement
  

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  Medical, Dental, Vision benefits forFull Time Hires
  

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  Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
  

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  Life Insurances
  

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  401k + Company Match for full-time and part-time employees
  

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  Referral bonuses
  

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  Career path to other positions within our growing company!
  

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we've been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That's where our people come in - from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace - earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 12 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare - but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark's full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South - this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you - let's get you hired

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.