Manager, Financial Analysis

Travelers Canada; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 149,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) matching

Paid Time Off

Wellness Program

Volunteer Encouragement

Job summary

Travelers in the United States is seeking a Manager, Financial Analysis to lead design, modeling and evaluation of incentive deals within the Small Commercial Agency Compensation team. You will advise on economic viability, identify trends, and help steer decisions affecting over half a billion dollars in commissions expense.

The role requires collaboration across Product, Actuarial, Agency Comp and Legal, with a focus on accuracy, timely contracts and insightful financial reporting.

Qualifications

• Three years of finance, financial planning, accounting, or related experience.
• Experience with financial analysis concepts and reporting practices.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support Sales leadership by evaluating incentive deals for economic viability.
• Create reporting to provide insights and drive decision making.
• Collaborate to create the Commission Plan and oversee contract accuracy.
• Analyze trends and variances in business performance against objectives.
• Prepare and present financial insights to leaders and teams.

Skills

Strong communication

Influence management

Data analysis

Financial analysis concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics

CPA / CMA or MBA in finance/accounting

Tools

TM1

Essbase

Hyperion

Job description

Who Are We? Taking care of our customers, our communities and each other. That’s the Travelers Promise. By honoring this commitment, we have maintained our reputation as one of the best property casualty insurers in the industry for over 170 years. Join us to discover a culture that is rooted in innovation and thrives on collaboration. Imagine loving what you do and where you do it.

Job Category Finance and Accounting

Compensation Overview

The annual base salary range provided for this position is a nationwide market range and represents a broad range of salaries for this role across the country. The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. As part of our comprehensive compensation and benefits program, employees are also eligible for performance-based cash incentive awards.

Salary Range $89,800.00 - $149,300.00 Target Openings 1

What Is the Opportunity?

The Small Commercial Agency Compensation team partners with Sales leadership and key business partners to strategize and manage the overall compensation philosophy ensuring alignment with profitable, sustainable growth, maintaining a competitive cost structure, driving execution of strategic plans and monitoring of results. As a Manager, Financial Analysis, you will lead the design, modeling, and evaluation of incentive deals to ensure economic viability and proactively identify trends and impacts to inform business decisions. You will act as a subject matter expert on agency compensation and leverage strong business acumen and financial skills to advise on the development of optimal outcomes in managing over half a billion dollars in commissions expense.

What Will You Do?

• Support Sales leadership by engaging key stakeholders (Product, Actuarial, Agency Comp, Legal, Enterprise Distribution Management, etc) and evaluating incentive deals to ensure economic viability.
• Create meaningful results reporting to provide insights and drive decision making while proactively communicating with key stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to create the Commission Plan.
• Oversee execution of desired commission deals to ensure accuracy and timeliness of contracts and commission tables.
• Support strategic initiatives which may include collaboration with matrix partners to enable best practices to effectively leverage incentives, evaluation and analysis to advance efforts to achieve competitive cost structure, and enhance best practices to drive efficiency.
• Prepare, evaluate, and validate complex financial and operational reports focusing on improving the process of completing these tasks and the effectiveness of the content delivered while ensuring accuracy and help synthesizing data into impactful observations.
• Review team members’ reports and provide feedback on accuracy and presentation.
• Perform analysis of trends and variances in business performance against broad business objective.
• Perform testing and validation of data and analyses with a strong understanding and ability to communicate data limitations and gaps.
• Prepare and present financial insights to financial leaders and/or functional teams, answering most questions.
• Manage the creation of complex analyses to support business strategy.
• Participate and/or lead in projects that involve complex analysis and implementation of non-complex, routine business and financial regulatory changes relating to financial reporting, such as reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, etc.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What Will Our Ideal Candidate Have?

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration with a concentration in finance or accounting or professional designations such as CPA, CMA or comparable advanced professional education.
• Experience with Financial Analysis concepts, principles and processes and accounting practices and principles.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to consult on projects and present information effectively.
• Ability to influence team members and management.
• Strong data analysis skills with the ability to interpret trends and provide insights and recommendations to business partners.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and follow through to ensure timely completion.
• Ability to think strategically and use judgement to resolve issues as they arise.
• Experience using Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) and Financial Reporting Software (e.g. TM1, Essbase, Hyperion, etc.).

What is a Must Have?

Three years of finance, financial planning, accounting, or related experience.

What Is in It for You?

• Health Insurance: Employees and their eligible family members – including spouses, domestic partners, and children – are eligible for coverage from the first day of employment.
• Retirement: Travelers matches your 401(k) contributions dollar-for-dollar up to your first 5% of eligible pay, subject to an annual maximum. If you have student loan debt, you can enroll in the Paying it Forward Savings Program. When you make a payment toward your student loan, Travelers will make an annual contribution into your 401(k) account. You are also eligible for a Pension Plan that is 100% funded by Travelers.
• Paid Time Off: Start your career at Travelers with a minimum of 20 days Paid Time Off annually, plus nine paid company Holidays.
• Wellness Program: The Travelers wellness program is comprised of tools, discounts and resources that empower you to achieve your wellness goals and caregiving needs. In addition, our mental health program provides access to free professional counseling services, health coaching and other resources to support your daily life needs.
• Volunteer Encouragement: We have a deep commitment to the communities we serve and encourage our employees to get involved. Travelers has a Matching Gift and Volunteer Rewards program that enables you to give back to the charity of your choice.

Employment Practices

Travelers is an equal opportunity employer. We value the unique abilities and talents each individual brings to our organization and recognize that we benefit in numerous ways from our differences.

In accordance with local law, candidates seeking employment in Colorado are not required to disclose dates of attendance at or graduation from educational institutions.

If you are a candidate and have specific questions regarding the physical requirements of this role, please send us an email so we may assist you.

Travelers reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

To learn more about our comprehensive benefit programs please visit http://careers.travelers.com/life-at-travelers/benefits/.

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