About this role
Position Purpose: Partner with internal and external stakeholders to support Centene's Provider Network team and help achieve company goals through cost-saving initiatives. Serve as a key stakeholder across multiple markets supporting all lines of business, compiling and analyzing financial information, leading complex financial projects, and providing data-driven insights to inform network and reimbursement-related business decisions.
Key Details: This role is focused on evaluating and interpreting analyses and models developed by other teams rather than building the underlying data infrastructure, reporting tools, or queries. Candidates with healthcare or managed care experience will be best positioned for success in this role. Success in this role requires a blend of provider network development experience and complex financial analytics skills. Experience supporting Medicaid, Medicare, provider contracting, provider network management, healthcare analytics, medical cost trend analysis, or reimbursement methodologies is strongly preferred. Ideal candidates will have experience interpreting complex healthcare financial analyses, evaluating provider payment methodologies and fee schedules, analyzing payment differences across provider types and between Medicare and Medicaid payment models, and applying analytical findings to business decisions. Fully remote; ET and CT time zones preferred.
In this Finance Analyst III role, you will:
- Identify trends and developments in competitive environments and presents findings to senior management
- Lead market calls and support day-to-day market needs to ensure initiatives remain on track with department goals.
- Develop integrated revenue/expense analyses, projections, reports, and presentations
- Perform financial forecasting and reconciliation of internal accounts
- Handle complex and high level financial analysis
- Present and discuss analysis with upper management
- Create and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual reports and ensures financial information has been recorded accurately
- Manage multiple high-value initiatives from planning through implementation and completion.
- Work with project management and leadership to ensure initiatives are on track and goals/timelines are being met
Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience. 4+ years of financial or data analysis experience. Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.
Pay Range: $70,100.00 - $126,200.00 per year
At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives — and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.
Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law , including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.
Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act