Essential Job Duties:

•  Maintains a current understanding of the operations of the company and GAAP & STAT principles, in order to properly account for prospective activities within GAAP and Statutory financials. 
• Researches, designs and develops various management reports as requested.  These reports include measurements of profitability, growth, productivity, financial condition, and competitive position and are used by all levels of management to assess the current environment and our company's place in it.
• Presents reports to divisional management, verbally and through slide presentations, relating to the corporate objectives of the company.
•  Develops and responsible for coordinating industry benchmarking studies by working with the functional divisions to capture company data for the studies.
•  Cultivates trust on financial matters.
•  Plans and develops various analyses which are used by divisional management to evaluate decision options.  These can include cost/benefit, cost estimate, total-cost-of-ownership, loss cost, probable maximum loss, budget, expense allocation, general ledger account, and internal control analyses.
• Performs post-implementation reviews for projects to determine if the outcomes of the project are consistent with the assumptions used in the pre-decision analysis.  Uses this information to improve the quality of future analyses.
•  Reviews and analyzes asset, liability, equity, revenue, loss, and expense accounts to assure the proper recording of transactions in the general ledger.
•  Builds financial databases by identifying sources of information, assembling, verifying and backing up data.
•  Facilitates cross-functional process flow meetings to understand overall cost structures within operations and builds models to support such functions and to  assess incremental product costs
•  Assesses the proper functioning of interfaces between financial systems by ensuring the data integrity and looking for tie-outs within existing financials.
•  Works cross-functionally to assess the proper functioning of interfaces between financial systems.
•  Gathers data to assess the proper functioning of internal controls in financial systems.
•  Administers databases to capture the data relevant to divisional performance metrics.
•  Administers reporting mechanisms to deliver these metrics to executive and divisional management in toe format that is most-easily interpreted.
•  Actively participates on and represents the Finance division on cross-functional development teams for new programs and processes in all areas of  operations.
•  Provides financial expertise and financial perspective to the strategic planning teams.  Succinctly makes recommendations by assessing options in relation to organization goals.
•  Prepares financial and business related analysis and research in such areas as financial and expense performance, rate of return, depreciation, working  capital, and investments.
•  Responsible for the annual budgeting process & summarization of the overall process from a bottoms up & top down perspective.
•  Responsible for the Actuarial accuracy and pricing sufficiency of all products.
•  Responsible for provider contract modeling including actual to projected results and partnering with Network Development to Model Provider Contracts  including their impacts on rates, trends and geographic factors and Monitor and investigate actual to expected results in same.
•  Facilitating meetings to resolve issues and reach consensus on financial matters.
•  Responsible for the organization’s annual and three year financial and capital plan.  Assist lead executive responsible for the integration between the  strategic, financial, capital and information technology plans on presentations and tracking actual performance to plan.
•  Prepares financial reports by collecting, formatting, analyzing and explaining information.
•  Protects operations by keeping financial information and operational metrics confidential.
•  Partners with Accounting to ensure that administrative expenses are recorded accurately.
•  Drives continual process improvements.
•  Performs variance analysis of actual results compared to planned results and communicates such results to executive leadership as appropriate.
•  Maintains technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications.
•  Completes special projects, adhoc analysis and performs other duties as assigned.
•  Performs other duties as assigned.