Finance Analyst III - IT Finance

Centene Corporation; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 126,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive pay

401K and stock purchase plans

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off and holidays

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Centene Corporation invites applications for a remote United States FP&A role. You will compile and analyze financial data, manage forecasts, and lead quarterly loads to support budgeting and business decisions.

Strong Excel and Power BI skills are required to deliver insights to SVP-level partners. The position emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data storytelling, and proactive financial guidance to optimize performance and mitigate risks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of financial or data analysis experience.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and manage a working forecast with updated assumptions.
• Own quarterly forecast loads ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Support scenario modeling and budget development.
• Communicate budget and forecast changes to finance leadership.
• Perform month-end close activities including accruals and reconciliations.
• Prepare monthly results with insights, trends, and variance drivers.
• Lead data files for reporting and ad hoc analysis.
• Identify risks and opportunities and propose actions.
• Provide portfolio-level reporting focusing on performance and opportunities.
• Facilitate financial support for renewals of existing technology.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Data analysis

Cross-functional partnering

Executive storytelling with data

Attention to detail

Financial acumen

Ambiguity management

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Power BI

OneStream

PeopleSoft

ERP/HR/PM systems

Job description

Position Purpose:

Compile and analyze financial information for the company. Lead various financial projects.

Key Details:

This is a fully remote role. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. Sponsorship and future sponsorship are not available for this opportunity, including employment-based visa types H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, or CPT.

Forecasting & Budgeting

• Maintain and manage a working forecast, incorporating updated assumptions and business inputs.
• Own and execute quarterly forecast loads, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Support assumption-based budget development, including scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis.
• Communicate budget and forecast assumptions, changes, and impacts clearly to finance leadership and business partners.

Financial Reporting & Monthly Close

• Perform month-end close activities, including accruals, reconciliations, and supporting schedules related to hardware, software, and telecom spend activity.
• Prepare and communicate monthly financial results to SVP level partners, including clear insights, trends, and variance drivers versus forecast and budget.
• Analyze data and identify drivers of financial outcomes. Proactively advise partners to deliver financial results.
• Deliver portfolio-level reporting and analysis with a focus on performance, risks, and opportunities.

General Financial Analysis & Insights

• Prepare data files (monthly and weekly) to support reporting, forecasting, and ad hoc analysis.
• Lead process improvement and automation efforts
• Perform demand and capacity analysis to assess financial and operational trade-offs.
• Maintain detailed non-labor financial data and key metrics.
• Provide proactive, insight-driven analysis to support the achievement of financial targets and strategic objectives.
• Identify risks and opportunities early and recommend actionable solutions.

Financial & Operational Support

• Facilitate financial support for all renewals of existing technology, ensuring compliance with financial and procurement policies.
• Review and support technology purchase approvals, validating financial impact and budget alignment.

Preferred Skills:

• Strong financial acumen and analytical thinking.
• Executive-level communication and storytelling with data.
• Attention to detail with a strategic mindset.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including Power Query, pivot tables, advanced formulas, lookups, financial modeling, data transformation, automation, and analysis of large data sets.
• Experience with Power BI or other reporting and visualization tools.
• Experience using OneStream, Peoplesoft, ERP, HR, or project management systems.
• Ability to manipulate and analyze large data sets to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
• Ability to partner cross-functionally and influence outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and driving results.

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