Senior Manager, Financial Analysis at Kemper Corporation in Chicago, IL

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In this role you will be reporting directly to the VP, Chief Financial Officer to support and interface with the business on financial needs. This includes the creation of qualitative and quantitative analyses that provide critical insights enabling leaders to make data-driven decisions. Define, design, and build financial models, reports and presentations to support internal monthly operating reviews, planning and forecasting as well as to support external reporting. Understand key metrics and leverage financial information to deliver required financial targets. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical and critical thinking skills, a strategically oriented thought process, exceptional communication skills and must conduct themselves with the utmost professionalism.

Work with leaders both within finance and the organization to support goals. Lead the development of financial disciplines, modeling, and analysis including planning, and data requirements, drive processes, and develop efficiency tools. Drives decision-making and recommended outcomes to improve financial performance.

Position Responsibilities:

• Drives strategic objectives within the team and responsible for maintaining the periodic goals to meet the year end objectives
• Drives the Key Drivers (KPIs) and Decision-Making Financial Analysis; responsible for periodic alignment checks to make sure these are still appropriate and align with changes in the company objectives; build insights from data & make recommendations for strategic alignment
• Develop and provide leadership in expense budget, forecasting, and reporting for the business; guide both the business and functional teams in the expense budget and forecast process
• Manage and monitor all aspects of the expense P&L. Drive actionable information and advice for the CFO, business and functional teams. Evaluate financial outcomes of various decision alternatives; provide management with information on potential decision impacts along with recommended options and action plans. Advise on key business planning assumptions, identify, and quantify risks and/or opportunities
• Translate content needed for senior level presentations; ensure content provided meets requirements; assist in preparation of presentations for senior management
• Develop ad-hoc analyses required by the CFO
• Provide analysis, insight, and decision support recommendations to the business with emphasis being placed on the ability to continuously seek out and discover root cause relationships and conclusions that are not always intuitive, obvious or have a precedent
• Move forward projects/improvements that need leadership and support. Seek out ways to continuously improve operations/processes
• Manage and monitor all initiatives impacting expenses including the realization of the long-term benefits as defined in the original business case
• Support management roll forward reporting/management operating report process
• Enhance management information and Seek out ways to continuously improve processes
• Manage/assist in preparation of presentations for senior management
• Lead the development and analysis of financial models that drive strategic insights and help address diverse business problems
• Assist in the evaluation of our business strategy and initiatives relative to our broader corporate strategy

Position Qualifications:

• Demonstrated proficiency of leadership skills with 3+ years’ direct people leadership accountability experience; 7+ years of experience in a finance role with analysis experience or equivalent combination of experience.
• Demonstrate effective financial, strategic, and executive leadership. She or he will appreciate the rigorous, analytical requirements of a public company, and have the ability to build the requisite infrastructure to support those needs within the business
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize work, and handle multiple projects and deadlines in a complex business environment
• Strong financial analysis skills
• 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
• Eagerness to tackle ambiguous problems
• Experience partnering with colleagues across an organization as well as an ability to work in a collaborative and team-oriented culture
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a quantitative discipline
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint