Senior Financial Analyst Marketing Finance Job in Oakland, California Us

The Senior Financial Analyst will support Internet Services Group and Marketing Communications. Responsibilities include preparing monthly variance analysis and forecast used to make strategic, operational and resource allocation decisions, completing ad hoc request for California and Program Office, interpreting financial reports for management, making suggestions on how to improve financial operations, working directly with cost center managers to prepare budgets, working on complex problems/projects where analysis requires an in-depths evaluation of various factors.
Essential Functions:
- Create and/or improve various reporting sets and provide analytical review.
- Generate and reconcile monthly data for financial planning, accounting and actuarial departments.
- Research and analyze specific claims processing and membership eligibility data of claims vendors.
- Prepare reports and data sets for regulatory filings.
- Prepares and provide analysis for ad-hoc reports requests.
- Business support in the design, building, testing, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of databases for accounting and finance.
- Ensures quality, timeliness and effectiveness of reporting of corporate data.

Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 or more years of financial analysis experience.
- Bachelor's degree in finance or information technology related field or equivalent experience
- Broad application of financial analysis principles, theories, and concepts in applicable discipline, plus working knowledge of other related fields.
- Microsoft Access experience in creating complex queries and designing new databases.
- Advanced proficiency in PC based word processing and spreadsheet applications, including advanced functions such as graphics, pivot tables, macros and database management.

Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of Visual Basic and/or SQL preferred.
- Microsoft Access experience in creating complex queries and designing new databases, preferably with health care data.
- Group health care experience that includes the delivery of managed care products, business analysis and project management is desirable.