Kaiser Permanente is hiring a
Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst III
The FP&A Analyst III will be responsible for providing financial planning and analysis support to the Enterprise Business Services (EBS) organization. This will include leaders across Employee Services, Call Center, and Utilities. The role will assist business leaders to effectively manage FTE planning, costs, and cost metrics as well as highlight risks and opportunities to ensure financial commitments are achieved.
In addition, the role will lead the financial analysis and modeling for the Energy as a Service project.
Essential Responsibilities:- Pursues self-development and effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; providing occasional mentoring to team members; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; creating plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; anticipating and responding to the needs of others; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
- Completes work assignments by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensuring all procedures and policies are followed; leveraging an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives; collaborating cross-functionally to solve business problems; identifying and monitoring priorities, deadlines, and expectations; communicating progress and information; identifying, recommending, and implementing ways to address improvement opportunities; and escalating issues or risks as appropriate.
- Supports the evaluation of the business environment by conducting financial assessments and generating reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data.
- Completes costing activities by identifying cost avoidance and cost recovery opportunities.
- Supports improving financial performance by identifying financial trends; using results of analyses; calling attention to operational issues that need to be addressed to improve performance; and partnering with the business to address operational performance issues.
- Supports business modeling by developing best-practice models; analyzing risk alternatives; and developing what-if scenarios and forecasts using in-house models or software.
- Supports reporting of region/business unit financial information by evaluating financial trends, data analysis reports, and forecasts of income and expense; reviewing assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses; and using data/inputs from region/business unit systems to support analyses.
- Supports assessment of the business vision, objectives, and strategic initiatives by conducting research to assess financial impact of strategies and initiatives.
- Creates budgets and/or forecasts under the guidance of others in accordance with business strategic initiatives by analyzing budgeting trends; preparing budget and forecasting; and coordinating with others to develop department/regional budgets.
- Evaluates performance/operations/financial state by using and implementing templates and computer applications; conducting complex financial analyses; and completing complex variance analysis.
- Supports internal and external audits by assisting with preparation of audit schedules and review of audit results.
- Supports field operations by analyzing their operational/financial performance.
- Supports Financial Statement Analysis of business partners by using software systems, annual reports, and/or interviews; determining the financial status of business partners; and assessing risk implications.
- Supports others in advising region/business unit leaders on strategic fiscal matters by preparing regular and special reports for both financial and statistical matters to facilitate financial management throughout the organization; and organizing regular meetings with leadership to review financial results for their areas.
- Supports strategic financial planning by performing and evaluating financial, utilization, and benchmark analytics.
- Supports strategic financial planning by gathering and preparing recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, financial requirements, and operating forecasts; and applying financial concepts for financial planning and control.
- Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
- Attention to Detail
- Business Knowledge
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Cross-Group Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Dependability
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
- Drives Results
- Facilitation Skills
- Health Care Industry
- Influencing Others
- Integrity
- Learning Agility
- Organizational Savvy
- Problem Solving
- Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
- Teamwork
- Topic-Specific Communication
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business, or related field and a minimum of three (3) 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.
- One (1) year experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
- One (1) year project management experience.