The Financial Consultant will lead or play a major role in significant financial and analytical projects for the Hawaii Region, including but not limited to: Preparation of the Region's Medicare revenue budgets and forecasts; Preparation of the Region's Medicare Bid(s) to CMS; Ongoing review, analysis and recommendations related to Regional Medicare revenue and expense trends; Analysis of regulatory issues and their financial implications to the Region; Development of analytical tools aimed at identifying and/or appropriately improving revenue and expense control opportunities.
The Financial Consultant will communicate findings/results of projects to Regional leadership and National Medicare Finance leaders.
Essential Functions:
- Provides project, service line or product line management, management consulting, and analytical decision support services or technical expertise for a broad array of financial and operational issues.
- Responsible for more complex multi-faceted projects and analyses across disciplines and functional areas.
- Assists in developing performance monitoring process and coordinating compilation, interpretation and presentation of monitoring information.
- Participates in the planning and development of regional, departmental and/or functional budgets.
- May be responsible for budget system completion, high level reviews and conducting area wide analyses for target development.
- Conducts or participates in complex projects where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of factors.
- Responsibilities impact the achievement of key functional and/or KP objectives that have direct and significant business impact.
- Contributes to the development of the department's objectives.
- Erroneous decisions or recommendations would normally result in the inability to reach functional objectives and negatively affect expenditures and resources.
- Involves interpreting and analyzing established concepts and trends.
- Exercises considerable judgment to make decisions for less defined and complex issues.
- Requires complex decision-making.
- Develops solutions to a diverse range of complex problems, which require creativity and innovation within broadly defined policies and practices.
- Requires in-depth analysis to identify and recommend new solutions for more complex problems.
- Provides professional/technical guidance to team members.
- Influences others to buy into new concepts and methodologies.
- Engages in matters requiring coordination across functional lines.
- Strong oral and written communication, presentation and facilitation skills and consulting skills.
- Exercises considerable latitude in determining objectives and approaches to assignment.
- Work is accomplished without considerable direction.
- Work is evaluated upon completion to ensure objectives and performance requirements have been met.
- May provide guidance to lower level staff.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Typically eight (8) plus years of financial analysis or related experience.
- Bachelor's degree in finance related field or equivalent experience.
- Regularly contributes to the development of new financial analysis concepts, techniques, and standards.
- Considered expert in field within KP.
- Frequently contributes to the development of new financial analysis theories and methods.
- Expert proficiency in PC based word processing and spreadsheet applications, including advanced functions such as graphics, pivot tables, macros and database management.
- Thorough knowledge of financial analysis policies, practices and systems.
- Extensive knowledge of several or all of the following: general finance theories and methodologies, discounted cash flow analysis, cost/benefit analysis, feasibility studies, large scale business planning, financial modeling and project management.
- Employs expertise as a generalist or specialist.
Preferred Experience:
- Ability to work with both Finance and non-Finance partners in the Medicare Line of Business.
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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