Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Location(s)

Chicago, Illinois

Details

Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises. 

Position Summary:

In this highly visible role, you will be reporting directly to the Director, Claims Finance to support and interface with Claims on financial needs. This includes the creation of qualitative and quantitative analyses that provide critical insights enabling leaders to make data-driven decisions. Candidates must demonstrate strong presentation, analytical and critical thinking skills, a strategically oriented thought process, exceptional communication skills and must conduct themselves with the utmost professionalism. Understand key metrics and leverage financial information to deliver required financial targets. Create financial reports and presentations that translate data into meaningful insights to facilitate tactical and strategic data driven decision-making. Resolve business and financial issues at hand and design, develop, and implement business and financial applications to meet customer needs quickly and accurately to support internal planning and budgeting as well as to support external reporting. Collaborate directly with colleagues across all levels at Kemper to implement business improvement initiatives, including partnering with Claims Leadership to improve efficiency, optimize staffing, and manage expenses.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of financial models and perform analysis of financial results driving strategic insights and help address diverse business problems.
• Assist in the evaluation of our Claims business strategy relative to our broader corporate strategy.
• Evaluate the impact of strategic decisions on our stakeholders.
• Translate content needed for senior level presentations; ensure content provided meets requirements; assist in preparation of presentations for senior management.
• Support, construct, and maintain structured financial and operational analysis models as tools to aid in financial data analysis involving revenue, losses, expenses, personnel, et al.
• Prepare and validate the accuracy of data that can be used for critical analysis and reporting.
• Aggregate, organize, and analyze financial data from multiple platforms and systems and suggest procedural changes to increase the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of models and reports used or produced by the team.
• Document work processes, including data sources and definitions to help ensure data accuracy.
• Suggest and implement procedural changes to increase the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of models and reports used or produced by the team.
• Frequently interact and coordinate with other departments to address business issues and to meet organizational objectives, including making effective presentations to constituents.
• Interpret data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to help leadership understand drivers of results, make decisions, and develop strategy.
• Understand long term impacts of leadership decision making and appropriately produce analysis based on creative thinking.
• Develop deep subject matter expertise and industry knowledge relating to the insurance finance to undertake both structured and unstructured analysis relating to industry and competition.
• Effectively manage increasingly ambiguous problems in a fast-changing environment managing perceived conflicts with strong research and data driven analyses.
• Analyze internal projects and external contracts for financial effectiveness, including performing Cost Benefit Analysis and getting appropriate approvals for effective implementation.

Position Requirements:

• 5+ years of finance, data analysis, or accounting experience. Insurance experience is preferred.
• Demonstrate effective financial, strategic, and executive leadership. She or he will appreciate the rigorous, analytical requirements of a public company, and can build the requisite infrastructure to support those needs within the business.
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize work, and manage multiple projects and deadlines in a complex business environment.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Workday Office Connect, consistent with an expert analyst are required.
• Advanced skills in data visualization tools, Power BI/Tableau, Python, SQL, SAS, and R are required.
• Strong descriptive and predictive Financial/Insurance modeling skills are required.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex analysis and recommendations clearly.
• Ability to self-manage progress and deliverables with a high degree of accountability and urgency.
• Experience partnering with colleagues across an organization as well as an ability to work in a collaborative and collaborative culture.
• A bachelor’s degree in finance, statistics, business, and accounting or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements (income statements, balance sheets and cash flows).
• Understanding of differences between GAAP and STAT, including relevant knowledge.
• Knowledge of insurance products and distribution. Solid understanding of insurance concepts.
• Ability to deliver structured and unstructured work products in a timely and accurate manner.
• Strong Business Acumen and knowledge of how the business works; knowledgeable in current and potential future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting the organization; knows the competition well; is keenly aware of how strategies and tactics work.
• Ability to work at strategic, operational, and tactical levels.
• Developing executive presence and ability to foster trusting relationships and influence others.
• The selected candidate will work a hybrid work schedule which will require weekly reporting to our office in Chicago, IL.

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

Kemper will never request personal information, such as your social security number or banking information, via text or email. Additionally, Kemper does not use external messaging applications like WireApp or Skype to communicate with candidates. If you receive such a message, delete it. 

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