Senior Financial Analyst - Military Veterans

This is a North America Finance position that will support group management reporting, including participation in daily team operations and deliverables, and support various project efforts. Critical qualities to succeed include the ability to take ownership, identify and recommend remediation for issues; develop relationships; and a willingness/desire to continuously build insurance/product knowledge.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze profit and loss results for consolidated North America and its component segments, particularly as it relates to plan, forecast, and prior year variances.
• Support monthly/quarterly close activities by owning key processes and resulting deliverables and creating opportunities for process improvement.
• Support efforts to maintain Sarbanes Key Control activities with a disciplined approach to account reconciliation and develop enhancements as necessary to ensure proper performance as part of each quarterly close process.
• Create efficiencies through enhanced interactions with key providers of data and information (Actuarial, Reinsurance, Claims, IT, etc.), including the development of strong and productive relationships with these various functional areas.
• Lead and/or participate in projects designed to enhance existing processes or react to emerging changes in control activity requirements.
• Continue to deploy advancements in available technology to enhance processes.

• Ability to work effectively and independently with other disciplines and all levels of management/staff throughout the organization
• Strong communication skills (both oral and written)
• Strong analytical skills including the use of various internal system applications to gather and analyze data
• Ability to problem solve and work autonomously to manage multiple projects and people, and prioritize appropriately
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
  
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in business with an Accounting/Finance major (preferred)
• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience with a large public company in an accounting or financial analysis role, or large/Big 4 firm in an auditing role
• CPA, MBA or CPCU candidates (preferred).
• Insurance accounting/financial knowledge understanding (preferred)