Lead Financial Analyst

Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze full P&L variances, comparing results against prior year, YTD, prior quarter, prior forecast, plan and outlook and summarize key variance explanations.
• Ensure journal entries are mapping to the correct, country, LOB, client and P&L account for all international countries.
• Ensure client and expense forecasts are robust and variances are understood.
• Business Partner with in-country FP&A teams.
• Produce value adding in-depth analysis for Lifestyle FP&A stakeholders and CFO’s.
• Gather insight by liaising with US based leaders including Actuary, IT and Corporate functions.
• Identify and develop KPI’s and variance drivers.
• Understand the key R&O’s and emerging business issues in International.
• Support ad hoc requests for Earnings Call.
• Maintain the International Trend report which consists of downloading data from EPA and regularly updating/setting-up by country P&L trends with variance comparisons and FX calculations.
• Track, review and validate expense allocations to/from international countries and assist the regional team with questions related to allocations.
• Maintain and validate the list of all global role employees and ensure country/LOB expense allocations are accurate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in financial analytics and forecasting.
• Advanced excel skills.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution.
• Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.
• Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems.
• Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports and projections using an advanced level of Excel.
• Thorough understanding of business issues and concepts related to insurance or financial services industry.
• Ability to work independently and collaborate with internal teams.
• A team player that can work in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Other Skills/Experience

• Proficient in understanding foreign exchange changes and impact on the financial statement lines.
• Insurance experience.
• Experience identifying, evaluating, and resolving financial, accounting and data quality discrepancies.
• Ability to utilize dynamic spreadsheet / database design in providing comprehensive decision support to executive management.

Pay

$74,600.00 - $124,700.00