Financial Strategy Analyst III

At The Standard, you’ll join a team focused on putting our customers first.

Our continued success is driven by a high-performance culture. We’re looking for people who are collaborative, accountable, creative, agile and are driven by a passion for doing what’s right across the company and in our local communities.

We offer a caring culture where you can make a real difference, every day.

Ready to reach your highest potential? Let’s work together.

Job Summary :

The Corporate FP&A Team is responsible for leading the development and execution of enterprise financial growth strategy, annual planning, and performance management efforts.

The team succeeds by driving financial visibility and accountability, building strong relationships, and grounding in facts with executive and finance teams across the company.

Ideal candidates for this team will have a bias towards action, partnership and communication skills, and know-how to balance getting the details right while still moving quickly.

Curiosity and initiative are required daily to develop, outline, and execute on a meaningful path forward.

This role will contribute to team responsibilities including end-to-end ownership of analysis and presentation including both development and delivery of materials, partnering with executive and peer finance teams, and executing financial planning activities.

Team members will leverage financial modeling and systems knowledge to provide solutions and meet stakeholder needs, then utilize strong communication skills to deliver outputs.

The team has significant responsibility and interaction with finance leadership as well as opportunity for self-directed progress.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities of the Team :

• Deep understanding of enterprise financials, business operations, and key operational drivers. Ability to cut through the noise to identify areas of focus and highest impact.
• Build thoughtful analysis and presentation appropriate for executive leadership to drive business decisions that align with the enterprise performance needs and strategy.
• Creation of strong partnership with key financial stakeholders to understand business needs, opportunities, and areas of support.

Help influence leaders to reach optimal financial decisions for the organization.

• Serve as the central point in creation of Annual Financial Plan and Forecasts including consolidation activities, analysis of performance, and presentation of enterprise results.
• Lead ad-hoc financial strategy projects to fulfill needs of the organization including support of potential M&A transactions.
• Drive process improvements by partnering with up and downstream process owners and enhance current tools / systems related to financial management.

Job Specifications :

Core Responsibilities :

• Preparation of financial models to provide insights to company-wide leadership.
• Preparation of various financial and management reporting, including qualitative narrative describing results.
• Preparation of financial analyses to provide insights to customers, including qualitative narrative describing results.
• Guide business leaders in the development of annual budgets and forecasts ensuring alignment to enterprise-wide financial goals.
• Support business leaders and finance groups in troubleshooting related to financial systems.
• Ad hoc finance related projects to fulfill needs of customers.

Key Behaviors :

• Diligence own the completion of assigned deliverables by expected due dates.
• Detail Oriented approaches the preparation of all deliverables with a priority for cleanliness and precision. In addition, ensures financial data included in deliverables are always complete and accurate.
• Curiosity approaches everyday work with a desire to continuously further their understanding and can align their work to the mission of the enterprise.
• Resourcefulness leverages a strong understanding of the enterprise-wide finance ecosystem to resolve issues and deliver insights.
• Vision can take ambiguous tasks and align it to the working model of the team to ensure execution.
• Team Oriented puts the needs of the team above their own desires and priorities.
• Knowledge : Uses skills as a seasoned, experienced professional with a full understanding of industry practices and company policies and procedures;

resolves a wide range of issues in imaginative as well as practical ways. This job is the fully qualified, career-oriented, journey-level position.

Job Complexity : Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data and operations requires evaluation of identifiable factors.

Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions. Interacts with senior internal and external personnel.

Supervision : Normally receives little instruction on day-to-day work, general instructions on new assignments.

Experience : Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience in accounting and / or finance. In some situations, the requirement may be less if requisite knowledge and technical skills can be demonstrated.

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Please note - the salary range for this role is listed below. In addition to salary, our package includes incentive plan participation and comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits, as well as an initial PTO accrual of 164 hours per year.

Employees also receive 11 paid holidays and 2 wellness days per year.

Eligibility to participate in an incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program and plan. Any award depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.

Salary Range :

$90,250.00 - $132,500.00

Standard Insurance Company, The Standard Life Insurance Company of New York, Standard Retirement Services, Inc., StanCorp Equities, Inc.

and StanCorp Investment Advisers, Inc., marketed as The Standard, are Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status or any other condition protected by federal, state or local law.

The Standard offers a drug and alcohol free work environment where possession, manufacture, transfer, offer, use of or being impaired by an illegal substance while on Standard property, or in other cases which the company believes might affect operations, safety or reputation of the company is prohibited.

The Standard requires a criminal background investigation, employment, education and licensing verification as a condition of employment.

All employees of The Standard must be bondable.