Kaiser Permanente
Financial Consultant
Oakland, CA
Kaiser Permanente is looking for a Financial Consultant in Oakland. Within National Medicare & Medicaid Finance Group, this position supports the care and coverage lines of business in a broad range of financial, operational and risk analyses and is national in scope.The Financial Consultant Medicaid will handle all phases of projects assigned including client meetings, analysis, presentations and will lead a number of results-oriented project teams to successful completion within designated timeframes. Duties will include designing effective processes to track financial performance against expectations, including early 'red flags' to identify potential shortfalls, and ensuringthe integrity of measurement and control processes and all financial and reporting statements. He or she will prepare routine or new quantitative or qualitative analyses including but not limited to modeling, trends, variance, data review, data audits, reconciliations,industry/regional comparisons.Duties will include thedesign of BI dashboards, scorecards, charts / graphs, drill-downs, and dynamic reports to meet the new information needs.He or she will have the ability to understand impact of data on either revenue or cost or a line of business. The financial consultant Medicaid will applyknowledge of business practices across the program, as well as regional focus, haveindependent thought process, with the ability to link and convert external and internal activities into analytical models, summarize results and assess risk factors. He or she will serve as a consultant to internal and external teams on all matters related to assigned subject matter expertise as well as to department manager and director on matters related to assigned subject matter expertise.
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.
-Creates and performscomplex financial modeling to maintain and enhance a newly built system wide excel based model which incorporates macros and visual basic programming code for efficient spreadsheet design.
-Identifies and assimilates data from disparate financial systems to produce robust analysis for decision making.
-Gather and drive stakeholder requirements and product vision through the planning, analysis, engineering, and testing phases.
-Translate stakeholder requirements into various documentation deliverables such as functional specifications, use cases, workflow / process diagrams, data flow / data model diagrams.
-Design BI dashboards, scorecards, charts / graphs, drill-downs, and dynamic reports to meet the new information needs.
-Participate in the creation of a catalog of key performance indicators and the documentation of their supporting business requirements, data models, calculation rules, and metadata.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in finance, information systems, accounting, or related area or equivalent work experience
- Eight or more years of financial analysis experience
- Extensive knowledge of several or all of the following: general finance theories and methodologies, financial planning and analysis, cost/benefit analysis, feasibility studies, large scale business planning, financial modeling and project management
- Demonstrated ability to lead a number of results-oriented project teams to successful completion within designated timeframes
- Strongadvanced computer word processing functions such as graphics, pivot tables, familiarity with macros and database management
- Strong communication and presentation, relationship-building skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of SAS programming
- Expert with Excel and use of excel and macros to develop Ad-Hoc financial models
- Strong knowledge of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Knowledge of andexperience with data warehousing solutions
- Familiarity with Health Care industry
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.