Financial Analysis Consultant, Business Unit FP&A

CNA • Chicago, IL

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

CNA is seeking an experienced Financial Analysis Consultant to join its Business Unit FP&A team. The team partners primarily with Underwriting and Actuarial leaders to provide deeper insight into profit and loss results and drive improvements in top-line growth, expense management, and profitability. The role also identifies opportunities to optimize and streamline reporting, build analytical resources, lead special projects, and contribute to financial forecasts and plans.

The position is based in Chicago, Illinois, with a hybrid office model. The Financial Analysis Consultant uses financial expertise to investigate issues and data variances, communicate insights and recommendations to senior leadership, and support decision-making through business cases and forecasting models. The role also drives process improvement and automation, leads projects, and coaches less experienced analysts.

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of corporate and departmental accounting and finance practices, procedures, and principles.
• Advanced modeling skills, including advanced Excel skills.
• Track record of delivering results with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to work independently and self-motivate in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to work with senior business partners under tight deadlines.
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or business, or equivalent.
• 5 to 7 years of finance experience or experience in a related analytical field, with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of an insurance organization and industry.
• Experience with Tableau Prep, Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI, Workday, Adaptive, Thoughtspot, Looker, or equivalent tools and systems.

Responsibilities

• Recognize and resolve emerging issues, and independently investigate anomalies and variances in data.
• Influence decision-makers through effective verbal and written communication.
• Extract or summarize key insights and communicate them clearly and concisely, with actionable recommendations to senior leadership.
• Manage multiple constituents and requests, building relationships and delivering value to the organization.
• Prepare business cases supporting decision-making by identifying strategies for revenue growth and cost reduction.
• Develop forecast models based on comparative performance metrics and implement improvements as the business grows.
• Drive process improvement and automation.
• Lead special projects with minimal direction.
• Coach, lead, and develop less experienced analysts while fostering a positive, open team environment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package intended to support employees' and their family members' physical, financial, emotional, and social wellbeing.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior