Lead Financial Analyst

When you enter a finance and accounting position at Liberty Mutual Insurance, you’ll find the same dynamic environment and challenges as within other organizations. Yet you’ll find something more: an opportunity to apply your analytic and technical skills to a company renowned for its integrity and focus on developing its employees’ careers.

The GRS Expense Management team is looking for a Lead Financial Analyst with strong financial knowledge and analytic skills. This role will have responsibilities related to monthly reporting and the annual budgeting & forecasting process for North America. A key focus will be collaborating with functional teams within North America, Operations and Claims, to help establish expense discipline while operating in deadline focused, fast-paced environment. As part of the GRS Expense Management team, this role will interact often with the GRS supply functions as well as across the GRS Expense Management organization to enhance reporting capabilities and drive transparency.

Responsibilities:

• Business Partner senior leadership and business stakeholders across North America Operations and Claims.
• Responsible for the production of complex ad hoc and on-going financial reports that assist the business in making decisions, effectively communicating trends any outcomes to management
• Helps to develop accurate financial plans by effective budgeting, monitoring, and problem solving
• Produces complex management reports and associated analysis, ensuring accuracy and relevance to the business
• Interacts with management to explain the budget or financial planning process, identify factors impacting expenses or financial trends, highlight opportunities for improvement and create effective exhibits to explain business budgets.
• Continually assesses the business value and efficiency of the work performed, identifying, and implementing improvements.
• Partners across the segment budgeting and reporting teams to implement consistent delivery of expense information and analysis across GRS.

The selected candidate should live within 50 miles of the Boston office and be able to come into the office two times/week. This policy is subject to change.

• Bachelor`s degree (Finance or Accounting) required.
• CPA or advanced degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of finance experience.
• Must demonstrate attention to detail in a fast-paced work environment and the ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously to drive results.
• Communicates well with own team and across organizational boundaries to ensure the successful completion of shared goals.
• Comfortable leading meetings and able to communicate issues and trends to senior management and other groups at the appropriate level of detail.
• Solid understanding of Finance Tools and Analytical Methods.
• Strong Excel skills required - experience with Microsoft BI, SAP and AnaPlan would be advantageous