Financial Operations Lead Analyst- Hybrid

Cigna-Evernorth Services Inc. seeks a Financial Operations Lead Analyst for the St. Louis, MO location to implement and maintain pharmaceutical manufacturer rebate contracts and amendments within our invoice system.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with cross functional partners, including teams responsible for negotiating contracts, communicating strategy to client benefits team, AR analysts, etc.

- Research and respond to manufacturer inquiries and disputes around invoicing.

- Track all contracts and amendments through Polaris system for validation and audit.

- Prepare validation packets to support all changes being made in rebates invoicing system.

- Review manufacturer specific invoicing and changes to claims from prior periods to help ensure invoicing accuracy.

- Hybrid Work Schedule.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Statistics or Accounting and 1 year of experience.

- Requires experience with:
Working in the Pharmacy Benefit Management industry;

- Microsoft Office Suite, including advanced functions in MS Excel (Pivot tables, VLOOKUP, data analysis) and Microsoft Access;

- SQL including the ability to manipulate and run pre-built queries;

- Providing support to external customers in a professional manner;

- Understanding the client hierarchy within healthcare industry, the structure of formulary documents, and of basic structures of pharmaceutical rebate contracts;

- Conducting end-to-end analysis from issue identification to proposal of potential solutions;

- Organizing and planning multiple projects concurrently, including task prioritization for a monthly invoicing cycle;

- Providing direct, real-time support to clients;

- Completing trend analysis and spotting abnormalities across periods; and

- Working under tight deadlines.

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10

Mbps download/5

Mbps upload.

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