Chief Financial Officer
Centene Corporation
Job Level
SeniorLead
About the role
- Translate financial data into actionable insights to drive business performance.
- Reconcile and manage budgets and forecasts and identify opportunities for revenue growth and cost optimization.
- Partner closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver insights informing key business decisions.
- Produce reliable financial projections, manage the annual budget cycle, and deliver timely variance analysis and reporting to stakeholders.
- Lead the budgeting and forecasting processes to ensure alignment with financial objectives.
- Oversee the design and improvement of forecasting models, tools and processes to produce accurate projections.
- Analyze financial and operational datasets to identify key drivers and improve business performance and forecast accuracy.
- Apply analytical methods to scenario planning.
- Present findings to executive leadership in a clear, concise format providing meaningful and actionable insights.
- Hire, train, and coach a high-performance FP&A team and promote best practices across the finance organization.
- Team with the executive team to develop the company’s medium to long-term financial and strategic plan.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; Advanced degree (MBA, MS or similar) preferred.
- 7+ years relevant experience.
- Experience in partnering with business teams, ideally with a hyper growth Company.
- Commercial acumen: Ability to translate financial data into commercial insights.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong financial, analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to hire, train, and coach a high-performance FP&A team.
- Proven capability working with business leaders and leading discussions with executive leadership.
- Experience with financial systems and software: Familiarity with accounting software, budgeting tools and data visualization platforms.
- Prior experience at a hyper growth technology company (preferred).
