Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

The Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis provides strategic leadership across financial planning activities, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and insights generation. This role establishes financial frameworks, planning assumptions, and performance expectations while strengthening financial discipline and decision-making. It also partners with senior leaders to enhance processes, drive automation, and build organizational capability aligned to enterprise priorities. What You'll Do Leads financial planning, target-setting, and forecasting activities to support enterprise performance management and cost discipline. Guides the design and evolution of financial operating models and cost structures, ensuring alignment with strategic and operational priorities. Drives continuous improvement in FP&A processes, governance, reporting, and automation to increase efficiency, transparency, and decision support. Establishes financial assumptions, planning parameters, and performance frameworks to support consistent and reliable guidance. Partners with business and functional leaders to align forecasts, reconcile assumptions, and provide integrated financial perspectives. Provides oversight of financial analysis across a broad scope of business activities and adapts support as organizational priorities evolve. Communicates with executive presence, translating business performance, operational drivers, and strategic initiatives into clear financial insights and recommendations. Ensures reporting, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, cost allocation, staffing, and benchmarking activities align with enterprise financial frameworks and business objectives. Leads development of business cases, performance models, and financial frameworks for key initiatives, and monitors outcomes against expectations. Builds organizational capability by developing talent, strengthening leadership readiness, and advancing a strategic advisory approach within FP&A. Serves as a key finance partner across the organization to address complex business issues and promote stewardship, accountability, and effective management of enterprise resources. What You Bring Bachelor's degree or advanced degree (where required) 8+ years of experience in related field In lieu of degree, 10+ years of experience in related field Bonus Points Healthcare experience (Commercial & Government) as this role will support the Health Plan Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and effectively delegate to a team of three Principal Financial Advisors. Proven ability to adapt and lead effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. What You'll Get The opportunity to work at the cutting edge of health care delivery with a team that's deeply invested in the community. Work-life balance, flexibility, and the autonomy to do great work. Medical, dental, and vision coverage along with numerous health and wellness programs. Parental leave and support plus adoption and surrogacy assistance. Career development programs and tuition reimbursement for continued education. 401k match including an annual company contribution Learn more Salary Range At Blue Cross NC, we take great pride in a fair and equitable compensation package that reflects market-price and our starting salaries are typically planned near the middle of the range listed. Compensation decisions are driven by factors including experience and training, specialized skill sets, licensure and certifications and other business and organizational needs. Our base salary is part of a robust Total Rewards package that includes an Annual Incentive Bonus*, 401(k) with employer match, Paid Time Off (PTO), and competitive health benefits and wellness programs. *Based on annual corporate goal achievement and individual performance. $130,560.00 - $208,896.00 Skills Budgeting, Business Performance, Financial Analysis, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Variance Analysis _____________________________________________________________________ JOB ALERT FRAUD: We have become aware of scams from individuals, organizations, and internet sites claiming to represent Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in recruitment activities in return for disclosing financial information. Our hiring process does not include text-based conversations or interviews and never requires payment or fees from job applicants. 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Help us lead the charge for better health care by joining our award-winning team. Discover tremendous opportunities with us to do challenging and rewarding work. Opportunities that can lead you to a fulfilling career, work that can help others lead healthier, happier lives. Authorization to Work in the United States We use E-verify to confirm authorization to work in the United States. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit E-Verify Overview for English or Vision General de E-Verify for Espanol. Request Accommodations Blue Cross NC provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, please notify HR at .... Blue Cross NC is a Hybrid Flex company. Whether the role is Hybrid Flex or Remote Flex depends on the nature of the work and distance from our Durham headquarters. 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