Financial Analysis Lead Analyst - Express Scripts - Hybrid

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Financial Analysis Lead Analyst, Client Analysis & Consultation position at Express Scripts works in conjunction with Sales and Account Management and various departments within the finance organization to provide financial and analytical support to clients.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:


* Work directly with account teams and clients to fulfill client requests, maximize upsell opportunity and model the impact of company initiatives


* Proactively identify client performance trends, cost drivers, and savings opportunities


* Develop findings based on research and present to the client


* Manage client guarantee performance, supporting department and company projects, and working to enhance finance team efficiency through the development of improved financial models and best practices


* Querydatabases to fulfill analytical requests


* Support ad hoc analyses and consultation of Express Scripts clients and industry consultants


* Conduct in-depth analyses to identify client specific trends, explain past program performance, and recommend opportunities for improvement


* Provide clients with plan design consultation and appropriate plan design recommendations through creative modeling and analyses


* On-going management of a client's contract to ensure compliance with financial terms


* Understand margin and performance drives, and support Senior Leadership in business management


* Participate in department and company projects


* Create content to support client visits to THE LAB at Morris Plains, NJ


* Develop and improve existing best practices for client support

QUALIFICATIONS:


* Bachelor's degree in Healthcare, Business, Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics or related field with 4+ years' relevant experience preferred


* Knowledge of PBM or Healthcare industry preferred


* Strong analytical and problem solving skills, advanced ability with Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint


* Create and run queries against Express Scripts database; experience with SQL a plus


* Develop Excel models to analyze and explain cost trends; experience with data visualization a plus, e.g.

Tableau; create PowerPoint presentations that detail financial performance


* Strong written/verbal communication, including presentation skills; comfortable discussing and explaining complex concepts to audiences with varying levels of knowledge of the subject


* Entrepreneurial attitude and curiosity; strong understanding of client analytics, financials, and value trade offs; modeling, trending and forecasting skills


* Relationship building and collaboration


* Ability to take ownership and deliver results; take initiative with commitment and ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines


* Comfortable with up to 10% - 15% travel

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