Staff Financial Analyst
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Bothell, Washington State
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Jul 10, 2019
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- Category
- Financial Services, IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Job Description
As Allstate's largest finance department, Protection Finance works across multiple areas of expertise to provide critical information that drives optimal business performance. Using financial acumen, we recommend creative solutions that guide strategies and improve operational results. In this role, your work will include timely reporting, critical analysis, and essential financial projections as we collaborate with leaders across the corporation to make things happen.
As a Staff Financial Analyst, you will have a variety of tasks to manage every single day. Your day to day workload may vary, and you can expect to exercise the following skills:
- Analyze and communicate financial results for key products, markets, and initiatives
- Develop compelling story lines, deepen client insights, and recommend creative actions that guide strategy and operations
- Formulate financial projections to predict and track performance, diagnose potential issues, and prompt corrective actions
- Ensure Protection Finances credibility and reputation of high quality financial measurement, reporting, planning, and consulting
Key Responsibilities
- Isolate key drivers, quantify impacts, and forecast implications to the business recognizing how different data points fit together
- Prepare and help build storylines for financial updates
- Collaborate with business partners to anticipate and identify emerging issues and assist in development and implementation of strategies
- Use analysis to influence and drive action within finance and our business partners by using fact-based, holistic, and forward-looking perspectives
- Develop and lead effective presentations for small groups
- Drive conversations with leadership to understand business implications of current trends
- Inspire trust and confidence in clients through strategic and diplomatic handling of relationships
- At this level, an analyst may be required to train and review the work of other analysts
Job Qualifications
- A miniumum of 1 year of Financial Analysis experience
- Solid business knowledge of financial and accounting concepts
- Strong analytical and financial model building skills
- Solid work ethic, including ability to follow-up, focus on details and take initiative
- Intellectual curiosity and drive for continuous improvement - personally and with work assignments
- Strong oral and written communication skills, able to work effectively with employees both internal and external to the finance function
- Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment
- Oral and written communication skills to partner with employees both internal and external to finance as well as interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment
- Effective time management and organization skills with a proven ability to multi-task
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power Point skills required.
- SAP experience is a plus
- BA or BS in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Business or related area of study
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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