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Job Description

The Principal Financial Advisor is a strategic finance leadership role at the intersection of analysis, business strategy, and transformation. This position goes beyond traditional finance—it’s about shaping decisions that drive financial operational expenses and organizational success.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, delivering insights that influence strategy, optimize performance, and create measurable impact. This is a high-impact role for a finance leader who combines analytical rigor, strategic thinking, and exceptional communication skills—supported by modern financial systems—to deliver innovation and value.

What You’ll Do

+ Works directly with staff and senior leadership across the company to proactively identify, prioritize, optimize and implement financial strategies and create meaningful and actionable outputs that drive the development of multi-year financial plans aligned to the company’s overall strategic goals

+ Proactively identify, evaluate, and implement financial strategies and plans, leveraging customer and consumer insights to drive business outcomes and maximize ROI, reducing risk and exposure and enable Blue Cross NC to meet growth and cost containment goals.

+ Supports the development of corporate strategic positions on behalf of senior leadership and represents those positions internally and externally including financial modeling and development of executive presentations

+ Builds and manages relationships and collaborates with both internal and external partners to drive highly complex financial analyses focused on significant business strategies and opportunities with substantial levels of importance and visibility

+ Leads annual and long-term financial planning efforts and analyses; provides thought leadership at a divisional, cross-divisional, and enterprise level; prepares and presents results to executive leadership.

+ Drives financial innovation and stewardship through collaboration and consultation with internal stakeholders to identify, plan and execute initiatives with significant financial impact. Partners with internal clients to better understand what problems they are trying to solve, help them articulate their vision and define financial impacts and success. Provides methods and resources to support their execution of those plans and quantification and realization of benefits

+ Utilizes expertise to identify operational improvements and leads the development of new ideas to understand, estimate and minimize the financial impact of existing or emerging issues the business faces. Evaluates those ideas to determine viability and opportunity for success and follows through from implementation to value realization

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

+ Workday, Adaptive Planning, and OfficeConnect experience a plus

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

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._

$98,092.00 - $156,947.00

Skills

Finance, Finance Strategy, Financial Advising, Financial Analysis, Financial Execution, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A), Operational Process Improvements, Portfolio Management, Process Improvements, Resource Management, Strategic Planning, Strategic Thinking, Strategy Development, Wealth Management

About Us

It's an exciting time to work at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC). Health care is changing, and we're leading the way. We offer more than health insurance our customers can count on. We’re committed to better health and better health care − in our communities and beyond. Our employees bring energy and creativity to the workplace, and it shows in our innovative approach to improving the health and well-being of North Carolinians.

Blue Cross NC is a fully taxed, not-for-profit company headquartered in Durham, North Carolina. We serve more than 4.3 million members, and we employ more than 5,000 people across the country who are passionate about making health care better for all.

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 (https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/e-verify-overview) for English or Visión General de E-Verify (https://www.e-verify.gov/es/empleados/vision-general-de-e-verify) for Español.

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 [email protected] .

For most roles, you can choose where to work - fully remote in one of the states listed below, in the office, or a hybrid of the two:

Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming