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Financial Analyst, Consultant

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
  • Long Beach, CA
    9 days ago

    Job Description

    Your Role

    The Mandates FP&A team provides financial partnership and controls to a $60M portfolio of projects . The Financial Analyst, Consultant will report to the manager of Strategic Initiatives FP&A. In this role you will be partnering with the Mandates portfolio of projects and helping to manage their budgets, providing strategic recommendations about spend and forecasting future expenses. You will also be tracking the ongoing costs related to Mandates implementation.

    Our leadership model is about developing great leaders at all levels and creating opportunities for our people to grow - personally, professionally, and financially. We are looking for leaders that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.

    Your Knowledge and Experience

    • Requires a bachelor''s degree or equivalent experience
    • Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience
    • Requires strong financial modeling skills
    • Requires strong experience and expertise with Excel
    • Requires knowledge and experience with accounting accruals and reclasses
    • Desired experience with Project Management methodologies
    • Desired experience with Planview Project Management Software
    • Desired experience with state and federal mandates

    Hybrid

    This role requires employees to be in-office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week. Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

    Your Work

    In this role, you will:

    • Summarize detailed revenue/expense data and compare summarized claim data against fee schedules and contracts
    • Produce contract performance reports, modeling of reimbursement rates, evaluation of financial contract modifications and compiling and monitoring key managed care statistics
    • Collect and evaluate data, develop and maintain financial models, analyze results and conduct scenario analyses to forecast balance sheet, cash flow and regulatory capital
    • Follow and conduct audit processes and review internal controls to ensure financial transactions are accurate, timely and comply with accounting standards, principles and company policy
    • Provide policy guidance and interpretation to ensure financial records are consistent and comply with company policies and GAAP
    • Partner with project teams to help manage budgets, create expense forecasts and explain variances
    • Create financial models in partnership with project teams to forecast benefits, and track actual achievement against those forecasts
    • Track and create mitigation plans for project risks, and communicate that risk to senior leadership
    • Review governmental mandates for complexity and implementation cost
    • Partner with mandates team on intake and ongoing cost support
    • Monthly reporting of YTD and MTD variances as well as development of full year forecast
    • General FP&A Maintenance of the Mandates portfolio

    Your Work

    In this role, you will:

    • Summarize detailed revenue/expense data and compare summarized claim data against fee schedules and contracts
    • Produce contract performance reports, modeling of reimbursement rates, evaluation of financial contract modifications and compiling and monitoring key managed care statistics
    • Collect and evaluate data, develop and maintain financial models, analyze results and conduct scenario analyses to forecast balance sheet, cash flow and regulatory capital
    • Follow and conduct audit processes and review internal controls to ensure financial transactions are accurate, timely and comply with accounting standards, principles and company policy
    • Provide policy guidance and interpretation to ensure financial records are consistent and comply with company policies and GAAP
    • Partner with project teams to help manage budgets, create expense forecasts and explain variances
    • Create financial models in partnership with project teams to forecast benefits, and track actual achievement against those forecasts
    • Track and create mitigation plans for project risks, and communicate that risk to senior leadership
    • Review governmental mandates for complexity and implementation cost
    • Partner with mandates team on intake and ongoing cost support
    • Monthly reporting of YTD and MTD variances as well as development of full year forecast
    • General FP&A Maintenance of the Mandates portfolio

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationLong Beach, CA
    IndustryInsurance
    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
    • Accounting Standards and Regulationsunmatched
    • Analysis Skillsunmatched
    • Auditingunmatched
    • Balance Sheetunmatched
    • Budget Managementunmatched
    • Cash Flowunmatched
    • Contract Analysisunmatched
    • Corporate Policiesunmatched
    • Data Collectionunmatched
    • Fee Scheduleunmatched
    • Financial Analysisunmatched
    • Financial Modelingunmatched
    • Financial Planningunmatched
    • Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
    • Financial Transactionsunmatched
    • Forecastingunmatched
    • Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)unmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Managed Careunmatched
    • Performance Analysisunmatched
    • Performance Modelingunmatched
    • Project Management Softwareunmatched
    • Project Planningunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Regulationsunmatched
    • Reimbursementunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Statisticsunmatched
    • Strategic Planningunmatched
    • Time Managementunmatched

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