Financial Analysis Consultant (Remote Home-Based Worker)

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

 

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

 

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

 

We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary:

The Financial Consultant analyzes and communicates financial results for key products, markets and initiatives, develops compelling story lines to help deepen client insights and recommends creative actions to guide strategy and operations. This role formulates financial projections to support in predicting and tracking performance and diagnosing potential issues.

 

This role will be part of the Corporate Finance & Treasury department and the Finance - Enterprise Cost Management team supporting initiatives that increase customer value with lower prices, funded through expense reductions and investments to lower loss costs. The team is responsible for creating and managing best practice financial processes, performing financial reporting, creating analytics to assess financial performance and identify trends.

 

This position is a permanent remote home-based worker. Your home office does not need to be near an Allstate office, but it does need to be in the United States. This position is eligible for a monthly connectivity reimbursement to offset the costs of internet and phone expenses.

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
• Use analysis to influence and drive action within finance, leadership and our business partners by using fact-based, holistic and forward-looking perspectives to identify emerging issues and current trends, and assist in implementation of strategies
• Provide accurate, timely reports with financial insight to allow business partners to improve performance
• Work collaboratively within the team and cross-functionally across the finance organization with suppliers of plan and data/analysis
• Develop and lead effective presentations for small groups
• Drive conversations with leadership to understand business implications of current trends
• Participate on special projects and analyses

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education and Experience:

• 4 year Bachelors Degree (Preferred)
• 2 or more years of experience (Preferred)
• Experience with SAP strongly preferred

Functional Skills:

• Intermediate business knowledge (i.e. deep financial skills/flow of the numbers) of financial and accounting concepts as well as intermediate analytical and financial model building skills
• Oral and written communication skills to partner with employees both internal and external to finance as well as interpersonal skills to work effectively in a team environment
• Effective time management and organization skills with a proven ability to multi-task
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Excel is and working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
• Inspire trust and confidence in clients through strategic and diplomatic handling of relationships

Notes:

The preceding description is not designed to be a complete list of all duties and responsibilities. May be required to perform other related duties as assigned. Regular, predictable attendance is an essential function of this job.

Compensation offered for this role is $75,000-$80,000 per year and is based on experience and qualifications.

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