Finance Analyst II - Medical Affairs at Centene in Remote-FL

Job description

• Position Purpose: With the Medical Affairs Finance team, you will own the day-to-day financial oversight for Medical Affairs vendor activity, including invoice review, purchase order monitoring, funding forecasts, reconciliations, and monthly reclassifications.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day financial oversight for Medical Affairs vendor activity, including invoice review, purchase order monitoring, funding forecasts, reconciliations, and monthly reclassifications.
• Maintain recurring vendor-spend, utilization, case-rate, penalty/credit, and operational reporting; investigate material variances and data-quality issues.
• Use Excel, Power BI, Coupa, SharePoint, and vendor source files to validate financial information and preserve clear audit support.
• Partner with Finance, Procurement, Medical Affairs Operations, health plans, and vendors to resolve invoice, contract, coding, allocation, and payment issues.
• Support month-end close, accrual estimates, quarterly/annual forecasts, and ad hoc financial analyses.
• Maintain the underlying data and prepare quarterly forecast-to-actual reporting for leadership.
• Support Medical Affairs staffing models through data preparation, validation, trend analysis, assumption updates, and forecast-to-actual comparisons.
• Assist with contract-impact analyses by mapping current utilization to proposed pricing terms and identifying cost risks or opportunities.
• Support efforts to streamline recurring reclassification and reporting processes using existing tools and standardized methods to improve accuracy, reduce manual effort, and create capacity for staffing-model support and other analytical priorities.
• Maintain process documentation and contribute to practical workflow improvements.

Requirements

• Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. 2+ years of financial or data analysis experience.
• Strong Excel capability, including PivotTables, lookups, SUMIFS, data validation, reconciliation, and maintaining formula-driven workbooks.
• Experience with financial forecasting, variance analysis, invoice/PO processes, month-end support, and internal account reconciliation.
• Ability to prepare and validate data inputs, update assumptions, analyze trends, and support staffing or other operational forecasting models.
• Ability to work with incomplete or changing data, identify root causes, document assumptions, and perform accuracy checks.
• Strong attention to detail, ownership, organization, and deadline management across multiple recurring deliverables.
• Clear written and verbal communication with finance, operational, vendor, and leadership stakeholders.
• Power BI and Coupa experience are preferred; ability and willingness to learn new systems
• Interest in process improvement and willingness to help test, maintain, and validate workflow enhancements built with existing tools.
• Sound judgment, curiosity, service orientation, and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Skills

Required

• Strong attention to detail
• Ownership
• Organization
• Deadline management
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Sound judgment
• Curiosity
• Service orientation
• Continuous-improvement mindset
• Excel
• Power BI
• Coupa

Benefits

• 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.
• Pay Range: $56,200.00 - $101,000.00 per year