Financial Consultant - 6-Month Contract (53713)

FINANCIAL CONSULTANT

DURATION: 6-month contract

LOCATION: Oakland, CA 94612

JOB NUMBER: 53713

CLIENT: One of the country's largest health care and health plan providers

GROUP: National & Shared Service Human Resource Finance

JOB DESCRIPTION:

- The Financial Consultant will develop, interpret, and implement financial concepts for financial planning and control, and will perform technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.
- This role will also gather, analyze, prepare and summarize recommendations for financial plans, investment decisions, and operating forecasts.
- Other responsibilities include ensuring accuracy of monthly financial close and supporting Operations Directors in managing financials.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

- Perform financial planning and analysis including budgets, forecast, long range planning, and variance explanations.
- 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.
- Be the finance strategic partner to multiple HR Functional leaders.
- Conducts or participates in complex projects where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of factors.
- Build business cases supporting new initiatives and work to realize projected benefits.
- 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.
- Prepare accruals and supporting documentation.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field OR 4 years of additional equivalent experience. Master's degree preferred.
- 8+ years of financial analysis experience - strong working knowledge of accounting, experience with Business Cases Analysis.
- Regularly contributes to the development of new financial analysis reports, concepts, techniques, and standards.
- Expert proficiency in PC based word processing and spreadsheet applications, including advanced functions such as graphics, pivot tables, and macros. Database management experience preferred.
- Knowledge of several or all of the following:
- general finance theories and methodologies
- discounted cash flow analysis
- cost/benefit analysis
- feasibility studies
- large scale business planning
- financial modelling
- Able to work independently with minimal day-to-day supervision or direction.
- Experience working with non-financial oriented business partners.
- Ability to work with ambiguity as well as has a sense of urgency.
- Ability to speak financials to non-financial people.