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Our purpose, to improve customers’ lives by making healthcare work better, is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.

To better serve our customers, we are fostering a culture that emphasizes employee growth, collaborative innovation, and inspired leadership. We are dedicated to creating an environment where employees can excel and where top talent is attracted, retained, and thrives. As a testament to these efforts, Premera has been recognized on the 2025 America's Dream Employers list. Newsweek honored Premera as one of America's Greatest Workplaces, America's Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion, and America's Greatest Workplaces For Mental Well-Being, Forbes ranked Premera among America’s Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time.

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The Financial Planning and Analysis team helps Premera effectively deploy capital. This group focuses on analyzing investments that will benefit the company in the long run. The Financial Planning and Analysis team is responsible for partnering with stakeholders across the organization to evaluate business cases, build financial projections, and monitor the company's ongoing project portfolio.

As a Finance Business Partner, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with client groups and work with all levels of management, including Senior and Executive Management Group members, guiding and facilitating the development of general and financial budgets, forecasts, and analyses in accordance with the company's formal planning processes and policies. In addition, you will play a lead role in the development and planning of the financial components of strategic initiatives across all functional areas and levels of management in the organization. You will also provide financial expertise and consultation for multi-company business planning functions for Premera Blue Cross and its subsidiaries. The position requires: strong analytical capabilities to solve complex problems and advanced technology skills to continuously improve accuracy, workload capacity and process efficiency; and a commitment to excellence, initiative, innovation, adaptability, and teamwork.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborates with all levels of company management to identify key business issues, outline strategic alternatives, build consensus and recommend action plans around core operations or strategic initiative planning.
• Participate in strategic business planning and drives continuous process improvements in both core operations and within the project lifecycle. Develop and maintain complex models to capture total financial impacts of desired project. Provide forecasting and analysis expertise to executive management and program management. Actively participate and lead financial discussions during executive steering committee meetings, staff meetings and team meetings. Make recommendations based on results.
• Partner with senior management and cross-functional teams to drive the completion of quality and timely financial projections and budgets.
• Analyze financial results and provide meaningful variance analysis to support business decisions. Evaluate financial and operational performance and provides suggestions for areas of improvement.
• Synthesize data and provide analyses for a broad array of issues across disciplines and functional areas.
• Evaluate analysis conducted by other departments and/or outside consultants and evaluate accuracy of assumptions and financial impact.
• Identify and recommend suggested action steps to senior management based on analytic results.
• Prepare and deliver presentations to all levels of management as necessary.
• Seek opportunities for process improvement or to gain efficiencies and takes lead role to build consensus and implement.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor's degree or four (4) years of work experience. (Required)
• Six (6) years of business or finance analyst experience. (Required)
• CPA or MBA.
• Experience with PeopleSoft or similar application.
• Health insurance experience.
• Demonstrated success in consulting effectively with all levels of management including executives, the ability to influence others without direct position power, and to earn credibility and client trust. Demonstrated skill and effectiveness as a relationship builder and internal consultant. Ability to build consensus towards desired outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct and interpret quantitative/qualitative analysis. Proven ability to communicate complex financial concepts and data in an understandable manner to all levels of management and staff.
• High attention to detail, strong organization skills and meticulous analytical capability.
• Proven ability to effectively facilitate groups. Excellent presentation skills.
• Strong ability to take initiative and manage multiple projects successfully in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Demonstrated project planning and organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Extensive experience working with complex systems to retrieve, analyze and synthesize data.
• Proficiency with Excel, Access, PowerPoint and Word as well as other applications.

Premera total rewards

Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including:

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.

• Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.

• Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.

• Generous paid time off to reenergize.

• Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

• Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.

• Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.

• Free convenient on-site parking.

• Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.

• Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.

• Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.

• Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.

Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785.

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.

The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.

National Plus Salary Range:

*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.

We’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We’re committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.