Job Description

Your Role

The Operations Finance team is responsible for financial analysis, budget preparation, financial control, forecasting, reporting, and evaluating alternative financial plans. The Senior Financial Analyst will report to the Director of Operations Finance and play a key role in supporting the organization's financial planning and decision-making processes. This position will be responsible for month-end close activities, variance analysis, forecasting, annual planning, and management reporting. The role will partner with operations and finance leaders to analyze business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and provide financial insights that support operational and strategic objectives. The Senior Finance Analyst will also contribute to the analysis of key initiatives aimed at improving business results and operating efficiency.

Responsibilities

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Support financial performance reporting and budget variance analysis including cost analysis and driver identification
• Translate complex findings into clear narratives for leaders and stakeholders
• Lead process improvements, automation, and documentation for assigned workflows
• Work with cross-functional partners across the organization to achieve department and organization objectives
• Support and sometimes lead, projects as subject matter expert
• Collect and evaluate data, develop and maintain financial models, analyze results and conduct scenario analyses
• Researching and helping in other areas when needed
• Help the team with month end close activities, including streamlining existing processes

Qualifications

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma/GED and 4 years of additional relevant experience in lieu of a degree)
• Requires at least 5 years of prior relevant experience
• Detailed oriented with experience working with numbers, data, and systems
• Strong Analytical abilities with a demonstrated history of driving process improvement
• Quick learner and self-starter with strong communication and written skills
• Advanced MS Excel required and Intermediate MS Access and/or Tableau skills highly desired

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.

About the Team

About Blue Shield of California

As of January 2025, Blue Shield of California became a subsidiary of Ascendiun. Ascendiun is a nonprofit corporate entity that is the parent to a family of organizations including Blue Shield of California and its subsidiary, Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan; Altais, a clinical services company; and Stellarus, a company designed to scale healthcare solutions. Together, these organizations are referred to as the Ascendiun Family of Companies.

At Blue Shield of California, our mission is to create a healthcare system worthy of our family and friends and sustainably affordable. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To achieve our mission, we foster an environment where all employees can thrive and contribute fully to address the needs of the various communities we serve. We are committed to creating and maintaining a supportive workplace that upholds our values and advances our goals.

Blue Shield is a U.S. News Best Company to work for, a Deloitte U.S. Best Managed Company and a Top 100 Inspiring Workplace. We were recognized by Fair360 as a Top Regional Company, and one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the United States by Points of Light. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities - join us!

Our Values:

• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human. We strive to listen and communicate effectively, showing empathy by understanding others' perspectives.
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

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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