Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. As a Sr. Financial Analyst, you will oversee operating expenses, lead planning and forecast cycles, develop insightful reporting, and serve as a key owner of planning systems and models.
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
Skills
- Bachelor's or equivalent experience
- 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
- 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
- 3+ years of experience in FP&A, finance, business analytics, financial systems or operations, insurance industry preferred
- Anaplan model builder experience preferred
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
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