Manager - AI Transformation Engineer - Finance

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is seeking an AI Transformation Engineer for Finance to shape the future of controllership through AI‑driven processes. You will partner with Enterprise Accounting, Finance Technology, Analytics, and business stakeholders to design, pilot, and scale AI‑enabled solutions that modernize controllership workflows.

You’ll translate business needs into clear requirements, solution designs, use cases, testing criteria, and adoption plans, ensuring responsible AI with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data/Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in finance transformation, financial systems, business analysis, or a related area.
• Experience documenting processes, gathering requirements, analyzing workflows, and partnering with technical teams to implement solutions.
• Practical understanding of AI, automation, or workflow improvement concepts and how they can be applied to business processes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, define success measures, and quantify business value.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders across Finance, IT, Audit, Risk, Operations, and other business areas.
• Familiarity with responsible AI governance practices, including risk assessment, documentation, testing, monitoring, and approvals.
• Experience working with internal controls, audit, risk, or compliance teams to design controlled processes and related evidence requirements.
• Experience working in agile or product delivery environments, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, user acceptance testing, and release management.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion or related close orchestration, consolidation, or reporting solutions.
• Lean/Six Sigma, process improvement, finance transformation, workflow automation, or RPA experience.
• Experience in health insurance, financial services, or another regulated financial reporting environment.
• Experience with financial ERP systems and close, consolidation, workflow, or reporting tools.
• Ability to apply accounting and finance knowledge to redesign workflows without compromising control intent, compliance requirements, or financial statement integrity.
• Ability to identify where AI and automation can improve efficiency, such as drafting, classification, summarization, triage, reconciliation support, and workflow routing.
• Ability to develop new ideas, solutions, and structures.
• Ability to promote technological advances and change adoption in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to recognize when formal accounting conclusions require human judgment, documented rationale, review, and approval.
• Strong documentation skills, including process maps, narratives, requirements, test scripts, standard operating procedures, training materials, and control documentation.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead cross‑functional workshops, guide decision‑making, and build alignment across competing priorities.
• Comfort working with financial data, including definitions, reconciliations, reasonableness checks, data quality considerations, and reporting requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve ambiguity, and drive work from concept through implementation and sustainment.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to deliver results through collaboration, influence, and follow‑through.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-enabled finance transformation initiatives by identifying, assessing, and prioritizing high‑value opportunities to apply artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, and workflow redesign across Enterprise Accounting and related Finance functions.
• Collaborate with accounting, reporting, tax, audit, Finance Technology, Analytics, and business stakeholders to understand current‑state workflows, pain points, control requirements, data dependencies, and desired business outcomes.
• Design future‑state finance workflows that integrate AI‑enabled support for activities such as journal entry preparation, reconciliations, variance analysis, close task management, document review, policy research, exception routing, and reporting support.
• Develop, coordinate, and support prototypes, pilots, and proof‑of‑concept solutions using approved enterprise AI, automation, analytics, workflow, and data tools.
• Define and track measurable business value, including reduced manual effort, improved close cycle time, increased standardization, enhanced control consistency, improved audit readiness, error reduction, and user adoption.
• Embed responsible AI, risk, compliance, information security, privacy, auditability, and internal control expectations into solution design, documentation, testing, monitoring, and sustainment activities.
• Collaborate with technical teams to support data mapping, workflow configuration, prompt or instruction design, solution testing, defect resolution, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and post‑implementation stabilization.
• Prepare and maintain process documentation, control narratives, solution documentation, standard operating procedures, testing evidence, training materials, and implementation communications.
• Support change management and adoption by equipping Finance users with clear guidance, training, feedback channels, operating procedures, and post‑launch support for AI‑enabled workflows.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Financial transformation

AI and automation

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Communication

Project management

Audit/compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems

CPA and/or MBA

Tools

Oracle Fusion

ERP systems

Job description

Company: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

Industry: Health Insurance and Health Care

Level: Mid-level Manager

JobFamily: Finance Treasury & Accounting

Compensation: Competitive Total Compensation Package

About Us

When you think of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for health insurance, you can know you’re getting much more. We're a company founded on a tradition of affordable, quality health care for everyone, improving the present and investing in the future.
We offer:
Plans for employers and individuals that meet today’s needs, budgets and lifestyle
The largest network of doctors and hospitals in the state
Lower health care costs Higher quality health care
Grants and programs that promote better health throughout Michigan
Mission:We commit to being our members’ trusted partner by providing affordable, innovative products that improve their care and health.

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Overview

Help shape the future of Finance through AI. As an AI Transformation Engineer for Finance, you’ll partner with Enterprise Accounting, Finance Technology, Analytics, and business stakeholders to design, pilot, and scale AI-enabled solutions that modernize controllership workflows.

Working across accounting, reporting, tax, audit, and internal controls, you’ll translate business needs into clear requirements, solution designs, use cases, testing criteria, and adoption plans. You’ll also help put responsible AI into practice, ensuring solutions are practical, well-controlled, auditable, and aligned with enterprise policies, data standards, risk expectations, and human‑review requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI-enabled finance transformation initiatives by identifying, assessing, and prioritizing high‑value opportunities to apply artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, and workflow redesign across Enterprise Accounting and related Finance functions. Manage and own the full lifecycle of AI models and solutions from development through deployment.
• Partner with accounting, reporting, tax, audit, Finance Technology, Analytics, and business stakeholders to understand current‑state workflows, pain points, control requirements, data dependencies, and desired business outcomes. Collaborate with technical teams to support data mapping, workflow configuration, prompt or instruction design, solution testing, defect resolution, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and post‑implementation stabilization.
• Design future‑state finance workflows that integrate AI‑enabled support for activities such as journal entry preparation, reconciliations, variance analysis, close task management, document review, policy research, exception routing, and reporting support.
• Develop, coordinate, and support prototypes, pilots, and proof‑of‑concept solutions using approved enterprise AI, automation, analytics, workflow, and data tools. Evaluate AI‑enabled outputs for accuracy, completeness, usability, control alignment, and appropriate human review, ensuring solutions support finance judgment rather than replacing required accounting review and approval.
• Define and track measurable business value, including reduced manual effort, improved close cycle time, increased standardization, enhanced control consistency, improved audit readiness, error reduction, and user adoption. Lead cross‑functional working sessions to clarify scope, align stakeholders, prioritize requirements, resolve issues, manage dependencies, and guide decision‑making from concept through implementation.
• Embed responsible AI, risk, compliance, information security, privacy, auditability, and internal control expectations into solution design, documentation, testing, monitoring, and sustainment activities.
• Collaborate with technical teams to support data mapping, workflow configuration, prompt or instruction design, solution testing, defect resolution, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and post‑implementation stabilization.
• Prepare and maintain process documentation, control narratives, solution documentation, standard operating procedures, testing evidence, training materials, and implementation communications.
• Support change management and adoption by equipping Finance users with clear guidance, training, feedback channels, operating procedures, and post‑launch support for AI‑enabled workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data/Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Five or more years of progressive experience in finance transformation, financial systems, business analysis, or a related area.
• Experience documenting processes, gathering requirements, analyzing workflows, and partnering with technical teams to implement solutions.
• Practical understanding of AI, automation, or workflow improvement concepts and how they can be applied to business processes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems, define success measures, and quantify business value.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders across Finance, IT, Audit, Risk, Operations, and other business areas.
• Familiarity with responsible AI governance practices, including risk assessment, documentation, testing, monitoring, and approvals.
• Experience working with internal controls, audit, risk, or compliance teams to design controlled processes and related evidence requirements.
• Experience working in agile or product delivery environments, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, user acceptance testing, and release management.
• Experience with Oracle Fusion or related close orchestration, consolidation, or reporting solutions.
• Lean/Six Sigma, process improvement, finance transformation, workflow automation, or RPA experience.
• Experience in health insurance, financial services, or another regulated financial reporting environment.
• Experience with financial ERP systems and close, consolidation, workflow, or reporting tools.
• CPA and/or MBA.
• Ability to apply accounting and finance knowledge to redesign workflows without compromising control intent, compliance requirements, or financial statement integrity.
• Ability to identify where AI and automation can improve efficiency, such as drafting, classification, summarization, triage, reconciliation support, and workflow routing.
• Ability to develop new ideas, solutions, and structures.
• Ability to promote technological advances and change adoption in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to recognize when formal accounting conclusions require human judgment, documented rationale, review, and approval.
• Strong documentation skills, including process maps, narratives, requirements, test scripts, standard operating procedures, training materials, and control documentation.
• Strong facilitation skills with the ability to lead cross‑functional workshops, guide decision‑making, and build alignment across competing priorities.
• Comfort working with financial data, including definitions, reconciliations, reasonableness checks, data quality considerations, and reporting requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, resolve ambiguity, and drive work from concept through implementation and sustainment.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to deliver results through collaboration, influence, and follow‑through.