Financial Consultant - 7 month contract

Description

Financial Consultant

Job Description:

• Develops, interprets and implements financial concepts for financial planning and control.

• Performs technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.

• Gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, trended future requirements and operating forecasts.

• Performs economic research and studies in the areas of return, depreciations, working capital requirements, investment opportunities, investment performance and impact of governmental requirements.

• Regularly contributes to the development of new financial analysis concepts, techniques, and standards.

• Considered expert in field.

• Frequently contributes to the development of new financial analysis theories and methods.

Daily Responsibilities:

• 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.

• 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.

• Conducts or participates in complex projects where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of factors.

  Position covers LOA. Not expected to convert to FTE but may extend if needed.

  Possible travel to NCAL or Portland for meetings but no driving.

  
  

Requirements:

• Minimum eight (8) years of financial analysis or related experience.

• Bachelor's degree in finance related field

• Expert proficiency in PC based word processing and spreadsheet applications, including advanced functions such as graphics, pivot tables, macros and database management.

• Strong PowerPoint and Excel utilization for analysis of large data sets.

• Thorough knowledge of financial analysis policies, practices and systems.

• Extensive 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 and project management.

• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

• Must have strong business acumen and strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Comfortable presenting findings to clients and team.

• Previous Healthcare IT experience preferred.