We are seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Senior Financial Reporting Analyst to support the Finance Manager as part of the Financial Planning & Analysis Team. The Senior Financial Reporting Analyst will play a critical role in the development and optimization of financial planning and analysis solutions used to deliver actionable insights for business growth. The candidate should exercise independence and good judgment when developing and formulating comprehensive responses to satisfy business requests, which may be complex in nature. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to develop technical solutions, automate reporting processes to enhance data-driven decision-making, and perform general data analytics. Specific responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Duties & Responsibilities
- Create and maintain repeatable dashboards and reporting solutions that fulfill FP&A operational needs.
- Translate functional/business requirements into technical designs to develop solutions and tools.
- Perform a detailed analysis of budget, actuals, forecasts and develop insights for work product delivery to senior leadership.
- Develop a working knowledge of the company’s applications, databases, and data pipelines to support in-depth problem solving.
- Interact with technical stakeholders to obtain an understanding of application and data warehouse data structures to develop solutions.
- Assess data quality, accuracy, and consistency across systems and reports in support of data selection.
- Create and maintain queries and scripts for the extraction of analytical data from various sources.
- Identify trends and patterns in data to support analysis.
- Perform analysis of source data underlying reports in order to provide insight into variances and anomalies. Interact with technical stakeholders and data owners (e.g. Accounting, Account Management, etc.) as needed in order to obtain root cause.
- Serve as technical expert to help inform the design of FP&A reporting & analytical solutions.
- Create and maintain models for analysis purposes and preparation of business plans, reporting, research, and analysis for internal customers on a monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc basis.
- Identify and recommend opportunities for continuous process improvement.
Skills & Educational Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business analytics, data science, finance, or related field. Master’s degree or relevant toolset/application certifications are a plus.
- Total of 5+ years of experience in financial data and reporting analysis or related role (insurance industry experience is a plus).
- Experience with financial reporting; ability to analyze results and communicate findings.
- Excellent communication skills: must be able to communicate complex technical issues in a manner that is easily understandable to a non-technical audience.
- Proficiency in data analysis and the ability to develop complex solutions.
- Technical Skills: extensive experience with SQL (preferably in Microsoft SQL Server), Power BI and Excel (experience with Alteryx is a plus).
- Experience working in high volume, complex, data environments.
- Excellent people skills to effectively work with other departments.
- Strong writing skills in order to document solutions, procedures and insights.
- Initiative-taking self-starter ready to hit the ground running.
- Ability to work with minimal supervision.
At Assurant, we celebrate the differences that make us who we are. By assembling extraordinary teams from a variety of races, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, ages, experiences, and abilities, we’re able to better reflect the global communities where we live and work. By working to remove barriers, we ensure equity for everyone. The pursuit of inclusion rests with each of us. Because it’s only by listening to and representing the unique voices of every individual that we can innovate for all.
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Company Overview
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.
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