Financial Analysis Advisor - Enterprise Financial Planning

Cigna

$80K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or a related field strongly preferred
  • 4+ years of financial analysis, accounting or related experience
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills for conveying messages to senior audiences
  • Ability to craft insightful variance commentary for Corporate and Enterprise deliverables
  • Proficient in system understanding, particularly 1PLN and DOM

Responsibilities

  • Oversee Corporate segment operating expenses and intersegment eliminations
  • Analyze and report monthly and quarterly financial projections for Enterprise results
  • Manage shares outstanding model to assist in enterprise earnings per share calculations
  • Communicate the relationship between actual and projected business results to management and ELT
  • Conduct ad hoc calls with business partners to clarify complex variances/issues

Benefits

  • Flexible work from home options
  • Access to continuous skills development opportunities
  • Ability to collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
Full Job Description

Primary responsibilities

  • Controllership of Corporate segment operating expenses and intersegment eliminations. Responsible for analysis and reporting of Actual and Projected financial results, Risks and Opportunities, and 5-Year Strategy Financials.

  • Consolidate, analyze, and report monthly and quarterly financial projection for Enterprise results from all business units and communicate to management and ELT how actual and projected business results relate to expectations.

  • Complete shares outstanding model on a monthly and quarterly basis to assist in enterprise earnings per share calculation and results consolidation.

Qualifications, Skills and Competencies

  • Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting or related field strongly preferred

  • 4+ years of financial analysis, accounting or related experience

  • Executive Communication

    • Hone verbal and written communication skills to ensure concise, clear, and effective messaging for senior audience.

    • Craft insightful variance commentary for both Corporate and Enterprise deliverables.

    • Grow rapport with my manager, business partners and executive leadership by eloquently speaking to topics during calls/presentations.

    • Schedule ad hoc calls with business partners to understand complex variances/issues.

  • Technical  / Process

    • Hone System Proficiency/Understanding (i.e. 1PLN and DOM)

    • Create ad hoc queries to quickly understand the root cause of variances and drive insights.

    • Form relationships with technology business partners.

    • Coach others (accounting peers or other business partners) to foster continuous upskilling.

    • Streamline where possible the 1PLM to DOM reconciliation process.

  • Business Knowledge and Continuous Improvement

    • Point person for understanding and explaining financial aspects of the Corporate segment (revenue eliminations, interest expense, projects, shares outstanding).

    • Asses the nature and beneficiaries of the spend which flows through Corporate to determine if any spend should be reallocated to the business segments.

    • Enhance tracking of depreciation and amortization for capitalized project through establishing a process to new spend each year versus runout.

    • Strengthen understanding of intersegment eliminations and coordinate with accounting a more efficient process to compare actuals versus projection.


If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

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