Financial Analysis Consultant (Remote Home-Based Worker)

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

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.

Skills

Analytical Thinking, Finance, Financial Analysis

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $50,400 - 88,988 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.

You’ll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we’ve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.

Good Hands. Greater Together.®

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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