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Financial Analyst
Allstate
Northbrook, IL, United States
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Job Description
Allstate Technology and Strategic Ventures (ATSV) Finance supports the senior leadership of ATSV by providing financial analysis and consulting focusing on expense management. You will provide meaningful analysis on the drivers of expense and provide consulting on courses of action to ensure optimal expense control. Analysis includes technology and operational metrics, resource sourcing options, project delivery metrics, and benchmarking.
Activities include historical trending reporting and analysis and future forecasting and planning.
Job Summary
• 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 ATSV Finance’s credibility and reputation of high quality (accurate, timely, meaningful) 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 storyline 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
Job Qualifications
• A minimum of 1.5 years of financial analysis experience
• Need to have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related area of study.
• Intermediate analytical and financial model building skills
• Proven work ethic, including ability to follow-up, focus on details and take initiative
• Intellectual curiosity and work towards 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
• Effective time management and organization skills with a confirmed ability to multi-task
• Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills required. Working knowledge of Power Point and Word.
**We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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