Blue Shield Of California

Financial Analyst, Consultant

Blue Shield Of California$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • 7+ years of relevant experience necessary
  • Strong financial modeling skills essential
  • Expertise in Excel is a must
  • Knowledge of accounting accruals and reclasses required
  • Experience with Project Management methodologies preferred
  • Familiarity with state and federal mandates is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Summarize revenue and expense data while ensuring precision against contracts
  • Produce performance reports and evaluate financial contract modifications
  • Collect data to maintain financial models and conduct scenario analyses
  • Conduct audits and review internal controls for compliance
  • Provide policy guidance to ensure record consistency with GAAP
  • Partner with project teams to manage budgets and forecast expenses
  • Create financial models to track achievements against forecasts
  • Monitor project risks and communicate to senior leadership

Benefits

  • Hybrid workplace model with in-office and remote flexibility
  • Focus on purposeful in-person collaboration
  • Continuous engagement in accommodating employee needs
  • Commitment to diversity and supportive workplace culture
  • Opportunity for professional growth within financial FP&A career
Full Job Description
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.

Responsibilities

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


Qualifications

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.

Our Workplace Model

We believe in fostering a workplace environment that balances purposeful in-person collaboration with flexibility - providing clear expectations while respecting the diverse needs of our workforce. Our workplace model is designed around intentional in-person interaction, collaboration, connection, creativity and flexibility:
  • For most teams, this means coming into the office two days per week.
  • Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location, out of state employees, and employees in certain member-facing roles should work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.
  • For employees with medical conditions that may impact their ability to work in-office, we are committed to engaging in an interactive process and providing reasonable accommodations to ensure their work environment is conducive to their success and well-being.

The Company reserves the right to require more presence in the office based on business needs, and requirements are subject to change with periodic reviews.

Physical Requirements:

Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.

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About Blue Shield Of California

Blue Shield of California is a not-for-profit health plan provider that has been providing Californians with access to high-quality healthcare for over 80 years. The company offers a range of health insurance products and services to individuals, families, and employers. Blue Shield of California is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of its members and the communities it serves. The company is also committed to sustainability and has implemented a number of initiatives to reduce its environmental impact.
Learn more about Blue Shield Of California
Size
7,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1981

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