Sr Financial Analyst

About the role

As a Sr. Financial Analyst, you will oversee operating expenses for assigned business areas by leading planning and forecast cycles, developing insightful reporting and analysis, and serving as a key owner of planning systems and models. The ideal candidate will be able to paint a story with data and metrics. This role combines business partnership, financial analysis, and financial systems administration, including the design, maintenance, and enhancement of planning models supporting budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes.

Responsibilities

• Creates meaningful reports and insightful analysis to inform decision making.
• Leads plan and forecasts for operating expenses.
• Planning systems administration, model maintenance, and enhancements.
• Performs month-end responsibilities, including accruals, allocations, and miscellaneous journal entries.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience in FP&A, finance, business analytics, financial systems or operations, insurance industry preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: Tailor communication to the specific audience, demystify numbers to enable business decisions, interpret questions and answers into a digestible format, discern when an email/phone call/IM/meeting is most appropriate.
• Strong ability to build deep relationships with multiple business leaders at various levels of the organization to foster a collaborative environment.
• Experience supporting, maintaining, enhancing, or administering financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, or reporting systems - Anaplan model builder experience preferred.
• Deep desire to obtain profound understanding of business strategy and value drivers.
• Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Growth mindset with an innate desire and ability to continuously learn and improve.
• Adept at innovating to create efficiencies, redefine processes, and advance the team to the next level leveraging AI where applicable.
• Effectively manage stressful situations and changing priorities.
• Proficient with Excel, BI tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• High school diploma required.

Benefits

• Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements.
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%.
• Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays.
• Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching.

Pay

Hourly Range: $87,900 – $146,500 plus eligibility for annual bonus programs.

Schedule

As a remote-first organization, Symetra has standards for employees' internet connection, including a minimum internet speed of 100 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload, and requires a fiber, cable, or DSL internet type.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States at hire and must maintain authorization to work in the United States throughout their employment with Symetra. Employer work visa sponsorship and support are not provided for this role.