Financial Planning Specialist

2 weeks ago


Renton, Washington, United States Kaiser Permanente Full time
Job Summary

This is a key position that partners with facility operations leadership to drive efficiencies, streamline processes, and increase value while reducing costs. The role will initially be 100% on-site for several months and thereafter may be flexible but will not become fully remote.

Responsibilities
  • Conduct and interpret complex financial assessments and modeling, leading internal audit processes, conducting and reviewing strategic financial research, and developing reports on region/business unit performance.
  • Practice self-development and promote learning in others by providing information, resources, advice, and expertise to coworkers and customers, building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, and influencing others through technical explanations and examples.
  • Complete work assignments and support business-specific projects by applying expertise in the subject area, supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines, ensuring the team follows all procedures and policies, coordinating resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines, collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions, solving complex problems, escalating high-priority issues or risks as appropriate, and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
  • Evaluate complex business environments by conducting financial assessments and interpreting reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data.
  • Lead internal audit processes, review audit results, and engage with auditors to resolve material weaknesses, implement changes to internal controls, and proactively assess high-risk areas.
  • Create budgets and/or forecasts in accordance with business strategic initiatives by analyzing and interpreting budgeting trends, reviewing results of budget and forecasting, coordinating with others to develop department/regional budgets, and making recommendations.
  • Advise region/business unit leaders on strategic fiscal matters by reviewing regular and special reports for both financial and statistical matters to facilitate financial management throughout the organization, participating in regular meetings with leadership to review financial results for their areas, and acting as an internal consultant to the Kaiser Management team on reading and interpreting financial results, analyzing variances, and improving performance.
  • Conduct financial modeling by developing best-practice and complex models, analyzing and optimizing risk alternatives, and developing, reviewing, and recommending what-if scenarios and forecasts using in-house models or software.
  • Assess the business vision, objectives, and strategic initiatives by conducting and/or reviewing research provided by others to assess the financial impact of strategies and initiatives.
  • Complete costing activities by identifying and suggesting cost avoidance and cost recovery opportunities.
  • Evaluate performance/operations/financial state by using and implementing templates and computer applications, reviewing and conducting complex financial analyses, and reviewing and completing complex variance analysis.
  • Report region/business unit financial information by evaluating and communicating financial trends, findings in data analysis reports, and forecasts of income and expense, reviewing and communicating assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses, and using data/inputs from region/business unit systems to support analyses.
  • Support field operations by analyzing and interpreting their operational/financial performance and determining areas of improvement.
  • Conduct Financial Statement Analysis of business partners by reviewing information reported from software systems, annual reports, and/or interviews, making recommendations regarding the financial status (viability) of business partners, and assessing risk implications.
  • Improve financial performance by analyzing financial trends and, in partnership with business leaders, using results of analysis and understanding of operations to identify actions that address operational performance issues.
  • Inform strategic financial planning by performing and evaluating complex financial, utilization, and benchmark analytics.
  • Assist with strategic financial planning by preparing recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, financial requirements, and operating forecasts, and developing and interpreting financial concepts for financial planning and control.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or a related field and minimum six (6) years of Financial Planning & Analysis experience, or directly related business experience. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
  • Two (2) years of project management experience.


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