Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. The Lead Financial Analyst will manage the International Plan/Re-forecast cycle and conduct variance analysis, supporting international teams and ensuring robust financial forecasts.
Responsibilities
- Analyze full P&L variances, comparing results against prior year, YTD, prior quarter, prior forecast, plan and outlook and summarize key variance explanations
- Ensure journal entries are mapping to the correct, country, LOB, client and P&L account for all international countries
- Co-ordinate and analyze the Plan/Forecast cycle
- Ensure client and expense forecasts are robust and variances are understood
- Business Partner with in-country FP&A teams
- Produce value adding in-depth analysis for Lifestyle FP&A stakeholders and CFO’s
- Gather insight by liaising with US based leaders including Actuary, IT and Corporate functions
- Identify and develop KPI’s and variance drivers
- Understand the key R&O’s and emerging business issues in International
- Support ad hoc requests for Earnings Call
- Maintain the International Trend report which consists of downloading data from EPA and regularly updating/setting-up by country P&L trends with variance comparisons and FX calculations
- Track, review and validate expense allocations to/from international countries and assist the regional team with questions related to allocations
- Maintain and validate the list of all global role employees and ensure country/LOB expense allocations are accurate
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field
- Minimum 5 years of experience in financial analytics and forecasting
- Advanced excel skills
- Experience in strategic planning and execution
- Knowledge of finance, accounting, budgeting, and cost control principles including Generally Accepted Accounting Principles
- Knowledge of automated financial and accounting reporting systems
- Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports and projections using an advanced level of Excel
- Thorough understanding of business issues and concepts related to insurance or financial services industry
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with internal teams
- A team player that can work in a complex and fast-paced environment
- Proficient in understanding foreign exchange changes and impact on the financial statement lines
- Insurance experience
- Experience identifying, evaluating, and resolving financial, accounting and data quality discrepancies
- Ability to utilize dynamic spreadsheet / database design in providing comprehensive decision support to executive management
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