Principal Financial Advisor
About The Position
Blue Cross NC is seeking a Principal Financial Advisor to serve as a strategic finance leader at the intersection of financial analysis, business strategy, and enterprise transformation. This highly visible role goes beyond traditional finance, partnering with senior leaders to influence key decisions, optimize operational expenses, and drive organizational success. As a trusted advisor, you will translate complex financial data into actionable insights, lead strategic initiatives, and help shape the future direction of the business. The ideal candidate brings strong financial expertise, business acumen, executive presence, and the ability to influence outcomes across a complex and evolving organization.
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.
Nice To Haves
- Workday, Adaptive Planning, and OfficeConnect experience a plus
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs.
- Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance
- Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education
- 401k match including an annual company contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
