Senior Financial Analyst

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Kemper is one of the nation's leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper's products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.
Position Summary:
The Senior Financial Analyst will create financial reports and presentations that translate data into meaningful insights to facilitate tactical and strategic decision-making. Resolve business and financial issues at hand and design, develop, and implement business and financial applications to meet customer needs quickly and accurately. Work directly with colleagues across all levels at Kemper to implement business improvement initiatives, including partnering with Claims Leadership to improve efficiency and optimize expense management.
Position Responsibilities:

• Support, construct and maintain structured financial and operational analysis models as tools to aid in financial data analysis involving revenue, losses, expenses, personnel, et al.
• Prepare and validate the accuracy of data that can be used for critical analysis and reporting.
• Aggregate, organize, and analyze financial data from multiple platforms and systems and suggest procedural changes to increase the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of models and reports used or produced by the team.
• Document work processes, including data sources and definitions to help ensure data accuracy.
• Suggest and implement procedural changes to increase the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of models and reports used or produced by the team.
• Frequently interact and coordinate with other departments to address business issues and to meet organizational objectives, including making effective presentations to constituents.
• Interpret data, identify trends, and provide actionable insights to help leadership understand drivers of results, make decisions, and develop strategy. Understand long term impacts of leadership decision making and appropriately produce analysis based on creative thinking.
• Develop unstructured analysis to drive key leadership insights into business performance.
• Develop deep subject matter expertise and industry knowledge relating to the insurance finance to undertake both structured and unstructured analysis relating to industry and competition.
• Effectively manage increasingly ambiguous problems in a fast-changing environment.
• Analyze internal projects and external contracts for financial effectiveness, including performing Cost Benefit Analysis and getting appropriate approvals for effective implementation.

Position Requirements:

• 3+ years of finance, data analysis, or accounting experience. Insurance experience is preferred.
• A bachelor's degree in finance, statistics, business, and accounting or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements (income statements, balance sheets and cash flows).
• Understanding of differences between GAAP and STAT, including relevant knowledge.
• Knowledge of insurance products and distribution. Understanding of insurance concepts.
• Ability to deliver structured and unstructured work products in a timely and accurate manner.
• Advanced Excel skills, including Workday Office Connect, is required.
• Advanced skills in Power BI/Tableau, Python and SQL strongly preferred.
• The selected candidate will work a hybrid work schedule which will require weekly reporting to our Chicago location.

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.
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