Principal Financial Advisor

NC Health Affiliates LLC DBA Blue Cross NC

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Remote Flex - North Carolina Remote Flex - South Carolina remote Until 9/26/2026 8+ years exp First posted July 28, 2026 Last posted July 28, 2026
Job description

Job Description

Blue Cross NC is seeking a Principal Financial Advisor to serve as a strategic finance leader at the intersection of financial analysis, business strategy, and enterprise transformation. This highly visible role goes beyond traditional finance, partnering with senior leaders to influence key decisions, optimize operational expenses, and drive organizational success. As a trusted advisor, you will translate complex financial data into actionable insights, lead strategic initiatives, and help shape the future direction of the business. The ideal candidate brings strong financial expertise, business acumen, executive presence, and the ability to influence outcomes across a complex and evolving organization.

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 

  • Learn more   

Where You’ll Work 

Our Hybrid Flex approach is built on presence with a purpose – giving you flexibility to work remotely with intentional in-person connection – that supports a workplace that’s flexible, connected, and future focused. 

In a Hybrid-Flex role, you’ll work in the office at least two days a week for collaboration and connection. In a Remote Flex role, you’ll work virtually, with a few in-office visits each year for meaningful moments that matter. 

Whether your role is Hybrid Flex or Remote Flex depends on the nature of the work and distance from our Durham headquarters. We welcome candidates from outside the local area and in any states listed on this job posting. Onsite expectations will be discussed during the interview process. 

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.
 

$107,901.00 - $172,642.00

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

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About this role

Summary

Provide strategic financial analysis, leadership, and planning for organizational success.

Job title

Principal Financial Advisor

Experience level

8+ years or 10+ years

Minimum experience

8+ years exp

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

remote flexibility across multiple states

Salary

$108k–$173k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

financefinancial analysisfinancial advisingfinancial planning and analysisstrategic thinking

Preferred skills

workdayadaptive planningofficeconnect

Specializations

financial analysisstrategic planningfinancial modelingenterprise transformation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

North Carolina, USA

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South Carolina, USA

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Wisconsin, USA

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Kentucky, USA

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Wyoming, USA

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Utah, USA

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South Dakota, USA

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Oklahoma, USA

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Ohio, USA

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Missouri, USA

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Mississippi, USA

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Louisiana, USA

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Kansas, USA

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Iowa, USA

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Indiana, USA

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Arkansas, USA

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Texas, USA

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Georgia, USA

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Virginia, USA

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Tennessee, USA

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Pennsylvania, USA

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Michigan, USA

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Idaho, USA

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Florida, USA

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Arizona, USA

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Alabama, USA

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