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Qualifications
The Financial Policy Consultant is responsible for designing effective financial and operational policies applicable to all regions and shared services operations (SSOs). This position is additionally responsible for coordinating efforts and providing technical expertise to other Finance departments to design technical internal accounting policies needed to standardize and document their operations. This position also assumes a leading role to inform, educate, and interpret financial operational policies of national scope to all regions and SSOs, and manage an effective vehicle to disseminate such policies and interpretations to all regional policy liaisons.
Essential Functions:
• Facilitates the design and implementation of new financial policies and perform periodic change or updates to existing policies. Performs related research and analysis as needed. Monitors the development and issuance of new accounting and auditing standards; determines applicability to Kaiser Permanente, and write or amend policy accordingly.
• Coordinates efforts with the national business leaders, national and regional governance and compliance leaders, training managers and other subject matter experts in writing policy and in identifying policy gaps.
• Consults with employees of all levels across all regions to educate employees on policy issues and provides adequate interpretation of policies. Assist in the development of training materials, as needed.
• Drives through obstacles and overcomes active resistance to change during policy design and interpretation utilizing effective negotiation and communication skills. Assess program-wide financial policy compliance.
• Drives through obstacles and overcomes active resistance to change during policy design and interpretation utilizing effective negotiation and communication skills. Assess program-wide financial policy compliance.
• Ensures good working relationships with management personnel utilizing written and oral communication tools.
• Facilitates the design and implementation of new financial policies and perform periodic change or updates to existing policies. Performs related research and analysis as needed. Monitors the development and issuance of new accounting and auditing standards; determines applicability to Kaiser Permanente, and write or amend policy accordingly.
• Coordinates efforts with the national business leaders, national and regional governance and compliance leaders, training managers and other subject matter experts in writing policy and in identifying policy gaps.
• Consults with employees of all levels across all regions to educate employees on policy issues and provides adequate interpretation of policies. Assist in the development of training materials, as needed.
• Drives through obstacles and overcomes active resistance to change during policy design and interpretation utilizing effective negotiation and communication skills. Assess program-wide financial policy compliance.
• Drives through obstacles and overcomes active resistance to change during policy design and interpretation utilizing effective negotiation and communication skills. Assess program-wide financial policy compliance.
• Ensures good working relationships with management personnel utilizing written and oral communication tools.
