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Join a team that is maintaining Assurant’s growth momentum by applying your leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills! Take charge of a demanding role!
We are looking for a detail-oriented individual with great problem-solving skills who can turn financial insight into storytelling to join our Finance team.
The Finance Manager role will
business partner with Global Housing Homeowners product, operational and enterprise finance teams to provide financial reporting, analyses, and forecasting for multiple insurance products (Manufactured Housing, Condo, Voluntary Homeowners, Antique Auto, etc.
and cost centers. You will use your finance acumen to support several products that are positioned for significant growth with strategic clients and other mature products with initiatives to improve profitability.
Challenging ad hoc requests are common and business partnering opportunities are plentiful. The Finance Manager role will be instrumental in partnering with the Data Analytics team to enhance our data reporting and modeling capabilities.
What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?
- Prepare data-driven variance analysis (actual results, plan, forecast) for specific financial statement lines (e.g. revenue, expenses, EBITDA, and metrics) for multiple insurance products and clients under the Homeowners line of business
- Identify, explain and provide insights into trends, drivers, key performance indicators, risks and opportunities by using data-driven approaches
- Prepare multi-year forecasts for Homeowners products and cost centers
- Prepare management reporting packages and presentations on a monthly, quarterly, annual and ad-hoc basis
- Perform analytical assignments of a complex nature
- Business partner with the product, operational and enterprise finance teams
What are the requirements needed for this position?
- Bachelor’s degree required – Finance or Accounting
- Minimum 7 years’ experience in financial analysis and forecasting
- Ability to lead a team and process
- Ability to manipulate and analyze financial data, prepare financial reports, using an advanced level of Excel, PowerPoint, Power Query and Power BI
- Occasionally will have to work extended hours, weekends and be available for infrequent business travel
Other Requirements
- Knowledge of finance, accounting (including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles), budgeting and variance analysis
- Ability to present financial information in an engaging way to various audiences
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with internal teams, at multiple levels and settings in a fast-paced environment
- Strong written, verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Critical and innovative thinking
- Committed to continuous learning and a continuous improvement culture as the business needs change
- Advanced problem-solving skills and sophisticated analytical techniques
- Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems
- Experience identifying, evaluating and resolving financial, accounting and data quality discrepancies
- Willingness to go above and beyond to do the best possible job
- Proven experience driving cross-functional consensus and sustaining a sense of urgency
- Able to process complex time-sensitive data and information from multiple sources, make decisions based on this data, and effectively communicate the related actions to a broad audience
What other skills / experience would be helpful to have?
- SQL Server, R and Python experience a plus
- Thorough understanding of business issues and concepts related to insurance or financial services industry
- IBM Planning Analytics (EPA and PAX) or experience with similar planning tools
13 hours ago
