• Chicago, IL
  • $141,980–$240,881.21 Per Year
30+ days ago

Job Description

This role serves as a strategic finance partner across the enterprise, translating financial and operational data into actionable insights that inform decision-making across the organization. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in a complex financial environment, is comfortable building sophisticated financial models, influencing senior business leaders, and driving enterprise-wide initiatives from inception through execution. This is a high-visibility, high-impact role for a finance professional who thrives at the intersection of analytics, strategy, and organizational partnership.

Enterprise-Wide Project Support: Partner with business leaders and cross-functional teams across BCBSA to provide financial expertise and analytical rigor on enterprise-wide strategic initiatives. Serve as a trusted finance resource on complex, multi-stakeholder projects - bringing structure, discipline, and financial perspective to ambiguous and evolving situations. Manage multiple concurrent workstreams with the ability to deliver high-quality outputs under tight timelines.

Enhanced Reporting & Business Intelligence: Support the evolution of financial reporting across BCBSA, with a focus on moving from static, backward-looking reports to dynamic, insight-driven tools that inform strategy. Identify gaps in current reporting capabilities and partner with Financial Systems and business stakeholders to develop solutions that improve visibility, accuracy, and decision-readiness across the organization.

Process Improvement & Best Practices: Continuously evaluate and improve financial planning, analysis, and reporting processes - identifying opportunities to streamline workflows, increase analytical capacity, and elevate the overall quality of financial support provided to the business. Serve as an internal champion for best practices, bringing external benchmarks and innovative approaches that advance the function.

The posting range for this position is:

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The posting range for this position is:

$141,980.00-$240,881.21

Qualifications:

Education

  • Required BS finance or accounting; or equivalent experience

Experience

  • Required 12+ Years of broad business experience

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

  • Knowledge of best practices in financial planning, analysis, budgeting, and forecasting.
  • Advanced proficiency in various computer-based applications such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
  • Deep expertise in financial planning, analysis, and modeling, with a proven ability to build and interpret complex financial models that support high-stakes business decisions
  • Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple critical and time-sensitive activities
  • Strong customer service orientation and the ability to maintain and improve customer relations.
  • Executive-level communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial information clearly and persuasively to both financial and non-financial audiences at all levels of the organization.

The posted salary range is the lowest to highest salary we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the hiring range and this hiring range may also be modified in the future. A candidate's position within the hiring range may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, relevant experience, skills, seniority, performance, shift, travel requirements, and business or organizational needs. This job is also eligible for annual bonus incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, 11 holidays, medical/dental/vision insurance, generous 401(k) matching, lifestyle spending account and many other benefits to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Numbers & Facts

LocationChicago, IL
IndustryInsurance
Salary$141,980–$240,881.21 Per Year
Company Size2,000 to 2,499 employees
Websitehttps://www.bcbs.com/about-us/careers

About Company

At the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), we provide business strategy, technical support and consulting expertise to 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the nation, employing more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the industry. We are a Brand manager that sets quality control standards for the 36 independent companies that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Brands, and we serve as a trade association that represents these Blue companies. It is through our involvement that the Blues companies share a united vision and strategy while also benefiting from the local strength of all member companies.

Skills

  • Accountingunmatched
  • Alliance/Partner Managementunmatched
  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Benchmarkingunmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Budgetingunmatched
  • Business Intelligenceunmatched
  • Business Strategyunmatched
  • Channel Strategiesunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Skillsunmatched
  • Continuous Improvementunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Customer Relationsunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
  • Financeunmatched
  • Financial Analysisunmatched
  • Financial Modelingunmatched
  • Financial Operationsunmatched
  • Financial Planningunmatched
  • Financial Strategyunmatched
  • Financial Supportunmatched
  • Financial Systemsunmatched
  • Forecastingunmatched
  • Legalunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
  • Microsoft Wordunmatched
  • Organizational Skillsunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Reporting Skillsunmatched
  • Strategic Planningunmatched
  • Willing to Travelunmatched

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