Principal Financial Advisor

About the role

The Principal Financial Advisor serves as a strategic finance leader at Blue Cross NC, working closely with senior leadership to influence key decisions, optimize operational expenses, and drive organizational success.

Responsibilities

• Works directly with staff and senior leadership to proactively identify, prioritize, optimize, and implement financial strategies.
• Supports the development of corporate strategic positions on behalf of senior leadership and represents those positions internally and externally.
• Drives financial innovation and stewardship through collaboration and consultation with internal stakeholders to identify, plan, and execute initiatives with significant financial impact.
• Leads annual and long-term financial planning efforts and analyses; provides thought leadership at a divisional, cross-divisional, and enterprise level.
• Identifies 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.

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
• Bonus points for Workday, Adaptive Planning, and OfficeConnect experience

Qualifications

• Strong financial expertise
• Business acumen
• Executive presence
• The ability to influence outcomes across a complex and evolving organization

Skills

• Finance
• Finance Strategy
• Financial Advising
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Execution
• Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)
• Operational Process Improvements
• Portfolio Management
• Process Improvements
• Resource Management
• Strategic Planning
• Strategic Thinking
• Strategy Development
• Wealth Management

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Multiple health and wellness programs
• Parental leave and support
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance
• Career development programs
• Tuition reimbursement for continued education

Pay

$107,901.00 - $172,642.00

Schedule

Hybrid Flex or Remote Flex depending on the nature of the work and distance from the Durham headquarters.