Senior Financial Analyst - Life & Group Insurance Analytics

01460 Continental Casualty Company; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 54,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

CNA seeks a finance professional to develop performance analyses and support monthly reporting in a hybrid Chicago-based role, partnering with Actuarial and Accounting teams. The role emphasizes accuracy, strategic insight, and cross-functional collaboration across CNA's finance and operations groups.

You will build forecasting models, automate processes, and deliver clear recommendations to senior leadership, driving data-driven decision making and continuous improvement in a dynamic

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, accounting, or equivalent
• 3 or more years of finance experience or a related analytical field with progressively increasing levels of responsibility

Responsibilities

• Develop results analysis to contextualize performance against business unit financial and operational goals
• Prepare monthly financial reporting results packages and support analysis to explain income statement results in close collaboration with Actuarial and Accounting partners
• Prepare monthly management reporting results packages and supporting analysis in support of Claim and Operations leadership’s oversight of CNA's third-party administrators who manage CNA's claims and policyholder interactions
• Participate in annual financial planning process and reporting in close partnership with Actuarial and Operational teams
• Manage monthly expense forecast assembly and reporting to enable informed decisions and contextualize business trajectory
• Analyze company performance to generate insights relative to peer companies
• Leverage financial expertise to recognize and resolve emerging issues, independently investigate anomalies and variances in data
• Support decision-makers through effective verbal and written communication
• Synthesize key insights, clearly and concisely communicating them with actionable recommendations to senior leadership
• Drive process improvement and automation
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Skills

Advanced modeling

BI tools

AI in workflow

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, accounting, or equivalent

Tools

Tableau

PowerBI

Looker

SQL

Alteryx

Workday

Adaptive

Google Cloud

Job description

CNA seeks a finance professional to develop performance analyses and support monthly reporting in a hybrid Chicago-based role, partnering with Actuarial and Accounting teams. The role emphasizes accuracy, strategic insight, and cross-functional collaboration across CNA's finance and operations groups.

You will build forecasting models, automate processes, and deliver clear recommendations to senior leadership, driving data-driven decision making and continuous improvement in a dynamic