Finance Product Owner-Velocity Claim Payment Operations- Remote AZ

Awarded a Healthiest Employer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona aims to fulfill its mission to inspire health and make it easy. AZ Blue offers a variety of health insurance products and services to meet the diverse needs of individuals, families, and small and large businesses as well as providing information and tools to help individuals make better health decisions. At AZ Blue, we have a hybrid workforce strategy, called Workability, that offers flexibility with how and where employees work. Our positions are classified as hybrid, onsite or remote. While the majority of our employees are hybrid, the following classifications drive our current minimum onsite requirements: Hybrid People Leaders: must reside in AZ, required to be onsite at least twice per week Hybrid Individual Contributors: must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per week Hybrid 2 (Operational Roles such as but not limited to: Customer Service, Claims Processors, and Correspondence positions): must reside in AZ, unless otherwise cited within this posting, required to be onsite at least once per month Onsite: daily onsite requirement based on the essential functions of the job Remote: not held to onsite requirements, however, leadership can request presence onsite for business reasons including but not limited to staff meetings, one-on-ones, training, and team building Please note that onsite requirements may change in the future, based on business need, and job responsibilities. Most employees should expect onsite requirements and at a minimum of once per week. This remote work opportunity requires residency, and work to be performed, within the State of Arizona.   Purpose of the job This leader will work with key business, vendors and IT partners to develop strategic plans for the technologies impacting the company. Works to deliver features defined for providing methodology process policies, practices, guidance and tools to the organization. Qualifications REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Required Work Experience 3 years of experience in healthcare, insurance or finance field with emphasis on Business Analysis and/or computer technology including EDI, financial systems or system interfaces 2 years of experience in a role with demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the business 3 years of experience in decomposing high-level initiative information and evaluating the components to forecast work effort required 2 years of experience with multiple LOB claims processing, and payments; overpayment recoveries Required Education High-School Diploma or GED in general field of study (All Levels) Required Licenses N/A Required Certifications Achievement of agile product owner certification within 12 months of placement PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Preferred Work Experience 5 years of experience in healthcare, insurance or finance field with emphasis on Business Analysis and/or computer technology including EDI, financial systems or system interfaces 4 years of experience in a role with demonstrated ability to communicate with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the business 3 years of experience working with Agile / Scrum work environments as a product owner, writing user stories, and following the development process through user story acceptance (All Levels) 2 years of experience with payments and back-end payment infrastructure; processing and routing (Credit, Debit, ACH) Knowledge of BCBS Association Federal Employee Program (FEP) and BlueCard programs and claims processes. Preferred Education Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, or related field (All Levels) Preferred Licenses N/A Preferred Certifications Agile Product Owner Certification ESSENTIAL job functions AND RESPONSIBILITIES   Level 1 – Performs job functions with minimal supervision Plan, direct, and coordinate projects to ensure goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frames and funding parameters. Accountable for the product backlog and prioritization of user stories with team members Create business user stories Share and decomposes Features into user stories (non-technical) Develop a deep understanding of the customer and product needs Recognized voice of the business to the team Work closely with project managers to represent capabilities and features at team level Ensure traceability between requirements to features to user stories Review of test cases against user stories acceptance criteria Periodically re-prioritize the Product Backlog based on customer feedback, market changes and business priority as communicated by the Product Manager Actively participate in Product Backlog grooming sessions, retrospectives, defect management and project team’s release planning sessions Accessible for the team to answer questions, and during Sprint planning sessions, and Daily Scrum Own the continual acceptance criteria for business value story user stories Create and deliver presentations. Level 2 - Performs job functions in a lead capacity with general management oversight Lead, instruct, direct and check the work of other team members. Provide input for team member performance reviews. Formally accept the user stories once all acceptance criteria are met Assist management in project support and project resource planning. Facilitate and/or create new procedures and processes that support advancing technologies or capabilities Evaluate high-level project information and assess project components to forecast work effort required Ensure Service Level Agreements between department and operational or technical areas are met Provide peer-level review and mentoring to level 1 ALL LEVELS Each progressive level includes the ability to perform the essential functions of any lower levels and mentor employees in those levels. Participate in corporate qua