Financial Analyst, Consultant

Blue Shield of California • Oakland, CA

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About The Position

Your Role The Operations Finance Sales Incentive team oversees calculation and analysis of internal compensation paid to Sales and external bonuses paid to brokers, as well as other incentive lifecycle activities and government mandate reporting. The Financial Analyst, Consultant will report to the Senior Manager, Sales Incentive. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the team has the technical processes in place to facilitate monthly internal sales incentive and external broker payout programs. As a trusted partner to HR Compensation and Sales, you will also consolidate results and provide analytics on the incentives which drive behavior and help Blue Shield achieve its membership and profitability goals. Responsibilities Your Work In this role, you will:

Requirements

• Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Requires at least 7 years of prior relevant experience
• Incredibly detail-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
• Technical-minded, able to leverage new tools and systems to drive automation
• Advanced MS Excel required

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Tableau, Crystal Reports, and/or Oracle Fusion Incentive Compensation System ‘nice to have’

Responsibilities

• Manage sales incentive and broker bonus administration activities to include team data validation and consolidation, variance analysis, and payroll/payout generation, as well as forecasting future payouts, summarizing information, and creating reports
• Assist with data analytics and presentation of findings and recommendations to leadership
• Drive process improvement and technical automation activities to update and support the team’s processes
• Provide process support to the team in existing workflows
• Conduct system preparation activities which may include designing and setting up plan designs, populating data, and performing testing
• 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
• Partner with HR compensation and be an Operations Finance liaison with Sales in the annual incentive compensation lifecycle

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees