Principal Financial Advisor

Job Description

As a Principal Financial Advisor, you will lead and manage enterprise-wide efforts to deliver analytical insights, enforce financial discipline, and produce business outputs that drive our organizational strategy across various time horizons. You will foster cross-functional collaboration to address organizational challenges, enable value realization, and achieve financial results. Acting as the financial strategy leader, you will partner with senior leadership and business units to generate impactful and actionable outputs that guide the company's strategic and financial objectives.

• Works directly with staff and senior leadership across the company to proactively identify, prioritize, optimize and implement financial strategies and create meaningful and actionable outputs that drive the development of multi-year financial plans aligned to the company’s overall strategic goals

• Proactively identify, evaluate, and implement financial strategies and plans, leveraging customer and consumer insights to drive business outcomes and maximize ROI, reducing risk and exposure and enable Blue Cross NC to meet growth and cost containment goals.

• Supports the development of corporate strategic positions on behalf of senior leadership and represents those positions internally and externally including financial modeling and development of executive presentations

• Builds and manages relationships and collaborates with both internal and external partners to drive highly complex financial analyses focused on significant business strategies and opportunities with substantial levels of importance and visibility

• Leads annual and long-term financial planning efforts and analyses; provides thought leadership at a divisional, cross-divisional, and enterprise level; prepares and presents results to executive leadership.

• Drives financial innovation and stewardship through collaboration and consultation with internal stakeholders to identify, plan and execute initiatives with significant financial impact. Partners with internal clients to better understand what problems they are trying to solve, help them articulate their vision and define financial impacts and success. Provides methods and resources to support their execution of those plans and quantification and realization of benefits

• Utilizes expertise to identify operational improvements and leads the development of new ideas to understand, estimate and minimize the financial impact of existing or emerging issues the business faces. Evaluates those ideas to determine viability and opportunity for success and follows through from implementation to value realization

Hiring Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required)

• 8 years of experience in related field.

• In lieu of degree, 10 years of experience in related field.

Preferred Skills

• Previous FP&A experience supporting a healthcare division, of a health insurance company highly preferred.

• Able to confidently speak to senior leaders and clearly articulate financial outcomes (executive level presence).

Salary Range

At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets,  licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs. 

*Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance.
 

$91,100.00 - $164,000.00

Salary : $91,100 - $164,000