Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blue Cross NC is seeking a highly skilled Senior Analyst – Financial Data Modeling and Analytics to support advanced financial analysis, cost modeling, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting across the organization. This role involves providing financial insights to leaders, ensuring accuracy and scalability while driving decision-making through data analytics and financial modeling expertise.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior financial partner to leaders, providing insights and recommendations that support strategic and operational decisions
- Interpret financial results, trends, and forecasts, translating complex analyses into clear business implications
- Design, develop, and maintain complex financial models to support: Cost allocation and driver‑based analysis, Scenario, sensitivity, and what‑if analysis
- Translate assumptions and business drivers into quantified financial outcomes
- Translate complex modeling outputs into clear, actionable insights that drive business decisions
- Develop and refine driver-based and predictive modeling approaches
- Ensure models are structurally sound, well‑documented, and reproducible over time
- Define and validate core financial datasets used for actuals, budget, and forecast
- Ensure consistency of metrics and methodologies across reporting and analysis
- Design scalable analytical structures, dashboards, and reporting tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI)
- Reduce manual effort by improving automation, structure, and reuse of financial analyses
- Independently build end-to-end data and analytics solutions (i.e. ingesting data, modeling data. analyzing data, developing reports/dashboards, and sharing insights) to meet organizational priorities and timelines
- Continuously improve financial analysis processes, tools, and methodologies
- Document models, assumptions, and analytical approaches to enable knowledge transfer
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field
- 5+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis, FP&A, cost accounting, or financial modeling
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (financial modeling, complex formulas) and Power BI or similar tools (data modeling, dashboards, data visualization) – Highly Preferred
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to synthesize large, complex datasets into clear, actionable insights
- Experience building and maintaining complex financial models and supporting enterprise-level budgeting, forecasting, or cost allocation processes - Highly Preferred
- Experience working in complex or highly regulated industries (e.g., healthcare, insurance, financial services), including familiarity with financial governance, audit support, and CAS/FAR regulations
- Experience with financial systems, reporting platforms and data integrations
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and attention to detail, with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset and growth orientation. – Highly Preferred
- Strong communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams
- Experience contributing to cross-functional initiatives or projects, with exposure to project management practices
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
- Annual Incentive Bonus*
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Competitive health benefits and wellness programs
Company Overview
It's an exciting time to work at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC). Health care is changing, and we're leading the way. It was founded in 1933, and is headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is https://www.bluecrossnc.com/.