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Advance your career at Liberty Mutual Insurance – A Fortune 100 Company!
Liberty Mutual is seeking an experienced professional to join our US Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team as a Manager/Senior Manager to lead and manage expense efforts across the Global Retail Markets (GRM) US organization.
This role will work across the various functions and act as a key liaison with senior leadership, the US Results, Reporting and Planning teams, and functional Finance leaders enabling alignment on executing short- and long-term strategies and ensuring linkage to the financial outlook of GRM US.
The ideal candidate for this role has strong financial acumen, excels at collaboration, gaining buy-in and building trust, is comfortable challenging and asking difficult questions of leadership, has strong executive presence, the ability to influence leadership decisions, and experience coaching and developing a strong team.
This is a range posting. Candidates will be considered at the appropriate grade level depending on experience and qualifications.
The compensation for this role is dependent on experience and geographic location of candidate.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, manage, coach, and develop a highly-engaged team to drive the budget business partnership and process for the GRM US organization
- Identify, assess, quantify and articulate overall opportunities for expense efficiencies as well as strategic investment opportunities, challenging business stakeholders and status quo as appropriate
- Lead complex expense management discussions across key Functional Senior Leaders and US Finance colleagues, making recommendations and influencing decision making
- Partner with Reporting & Insights leader to incorporate key trends and expectations into the current year forecast. Articulate drivers of results, and proactively identify ways to close gaps to expense targets and drive incremental savings
- Partner with the GRM FP&A team and IT Finance to ensure full understanding of overhead and other expenses. Perform analysis to pinpoint drivers and present findings to US CFO and leadership
- Establish and foster strong connections with US CFO, US FP&A colleagues, GRM FP&A team, and key functional customers and stakeholders to effectively collaborate and build a deep understanding of the expense forecasts & plans and connectivity to other areas of the business and P&L
- Provide thought-leadership for continuously improving our budgeting process and utilizing a new technology solution. Identify new opportunities to streamline and create efficiencies in the way work
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with 7 years of experience or the equivalent required; MBA preferred.
- Strong understanding of the Insurance Business, Personal lines and key business & performance drivers
- Superior analytical and critical reasoning skills, with an ability to effectively communicate and message to executives to gain buy-in
- Effective skills for writing reports/proposals and creating/making presentations
- Strong influencing skills in order to be seen as the decision maker when interfacing across teams
- Must be driven and flexible to succeed in ambiguous and less structured situations. Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty
- Will need to influence actions and drive results among parties with different agendas and reporting relationships
- Ability to work independently and lead cross-functional groups during decision making
At Liberty Mutual, our purpose is to help people embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow. That’s why we provide an environment focused on openness, inclusion, trust and respect. Here, you’ll discover our expansive range of roles, and a workplace where we aim to help turn your passion into a rewarding profession.
Liberty Mutual has proudly been recognized as a “Great Place to Work” by Great Place to Work® US for the past several years. We were also selected as one of the “100 Best Places to Work in IT” on IDG’s Insider Pro and Computerworld’s 2020 list. For many years running, we have been named by Forbes as one of America’s Best Employers for Women and one of America’s Best Employers for New Graduates—as well as one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity. To learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion please visit: https://jobs.libertymutualgroup.com/diversity-inclusion
We value your hard work, integrity and commitment to make things better, and we put people first by offering you benefits that support your life and well-being. To learn more about our benefit offerings please visit: https://LMI.co/Benefits
Liberty Mutual is an equal opportunity employer. We will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, disability, veteran’s status, pregnancy, genetic information or on any basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.
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