Divisional Senior Financial Analyst - Insurance Broker

SUMMARY Responsible for providing analytical support to operating group leadership and team. Key responsibilities include management reporting and analysis, financial modeling, forecasting, budgeting, and process improvement. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Provides broad analytical support to assigned departments and acts as a liaison between departments. Analyzes and interprets financial results, comparing actual performance to prior periods, budgets, and forecasts; then clearly articulates to management the narrative behind the numbers. Designs and prepares ad hoc and standard management reporting. Proactively seeks opportunities to provide increasingly insightful reports to management.Independently constructs moderate to complex financial models to analyze the impact of current and proposed company initiatives. Leads the forecasting and budgeting processes. Creates and maintains planning templates and reports, helps to construct revenue and expense plans, identifies and analyzes variances, challenges and redirects business assumptions as needed. Organizes and analyzes large quantities of data and performs data reconciliations to ensure accuracy of work products. Identifies and interprets patterns and outliers in the data set and provides insight into the meaning of the data. Partners with IT to develop and maintain integrity of financial systems used for analysis. Proactively identifies areas for process improvement and implements methods to reduce error rates and m