PURPOSE:
The Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst provides Short-Term high-level quantitative financial planning and forecasting functions to ensure timely and accurate reporting by assisting team members. The Senior Analyst will analyze and interpret data, utilize various sources to gather data, make recommendations to improve the financial planning process, work with other areas and communicate any issues in the process to the lead team members, play an active role in problem resolution, and take ownership of special projects to lead them to completion. Provides leadership and direction to lower level staff.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
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Responsible for modeling short-term financial forecasts including various scenarios as directed by senior management. This includes ensuring that assumptions used are reasonable and in-line with the latest healthcare reform information available. Also responsible for completing in depth analysis of short-term financial forecasts as needed. The incumbent will be expected to present their modeling to senior management on a regular basis.
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Responsible for tracking new developments in healthcare reform which will impact financial planning. This includes attending meetings, doing independent research, and communicating to other areas within the organization about potential impacts. This also includes keeping management up to date on all information.
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Responsible for contributing to the development and extensive analytical review of planning information/data/reports in the planning/forecasting function. This includes working within the team, working with other areas within the Company, producing presentations for senior management and communicating status of deliverables to the department head. Additionally, it includes assisting in the creation of financial models used to analyze and generate data. The types of analyses performed include rate/volume analysis, trend analysis and recast analysis. This also involves assisting in the delivery of various ad-hoc reports related to the plan/forecast.
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Responsible for performing complex financial analyses reports for management as assigned. This could include, but is not limited to annual reporting for S&P and AFF, market segment analysis, financial statement analysis and RFPs. This involves examining and interpreting data, working with other areas of the Company, and presenting and explaining analyses to management. This also involves working knowledge types of financial models and capital budgeting techniques. Also responsible for producing reports and information timely, accurately and efficiently for management.
QUALIFICATONS:
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Business Administration or related field. In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
Experience: 5 years experience in a finance or analytical role within the finance sector or quantitative analysis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- MBA/MS, preferably in a quantitative and analytical discipline.
- Specific experience building Excel-based financial models.
- Understanding of healthcare marketplace dynamics and healthcare financial and operational reporting.
Department
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Equal Employment Opportunity
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is an Equal Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.