Finance Business Partner

Description:

To better serve our customers, we’re creating a culture that promotes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership.

Forbes ranked Premera among America’s 2023 Best Midsize Employers

because we are committed to creating an environment where employees can do their best work and where best-in-class talent comes, stays, and thrives!

As a Finance Business Partner, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with client groups and work with all levels of management, including Senior and Executive Management Group members, guiding and facilitating the development of general and financial budgets, forecasts, and analyses in accordance with the company's formal planning processes and policies. In addition, you will play a lead role in the development and planning of the financial components of strategic initiatives across all functional areas and levels of management in the organization. You will also provide financial expertise and consultation for multi-company business planning functions for Premera Blue Cross and its subsidiaries. The position requires strong analytical capabilities to solve complex problems and advanced technology skills to continuously improve accuracy, workload capacity and process efficiency, and a commitment to excellence, initiative, innovation, adaptability, and teamwork.

This is a hybrid role, with some onsite days required. You must live within driving distance of our Mountlake Terrace campus, located about 15 miles north of Seattle, Washington.

What you’ll do:

• Collaborate with all levels of company management to identify key business issues, outline strategic alternatives, build consensus, and recommend action plans around core operations or strategic initiative planning.

• Participate in strategic business planning and drive continuous process improvements in both core operations and within the project lifecycle. Develop and maintain complex models to capture total financial impacts of desired project. Provide forecasting and analysis expertise to executive management and program management. Actively participate and lead financial discussions during executive steering committee meetings, staff meetings, and team meetings. Make recommendations based on results.

• Partner with senior management and cross-functional teams to drive the completion of quality and timely financial projections and budgets.

• Analyze financial results and provide meaningful variance analysis to support business decisions. Evaluate financial and operational performance and provide suggestions for areas of improvement.

• Synthesize data and provide analyses for a broad array of issues across disciplines and functional areas.

• Evaluate analysis conducted by other departments and/or outside consultants and evaluate accuracy of assumptions and financial impact.

• Identify and recommend suggested action steps to senior management based on analytic results.

• Prepare and deliver presentations to all levels of management as necessary.

• Seek opportunities for process improvement or to gain efficiencies and take a lead role to build consensus and implement.