FP&A Analyst III

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.•Jersey City, NJ

10d•Onsite

About The Position

The FP&A Analyst III is an experienced individual-contributor role supporting expense analysis, planning, forecasting, and reporting. The position independently manages recurring analytical deliverables, works with large datasets, and translates financial results into clear business insights. It partners with business stakeholders and finance teams on expense management, budgeting, allocations, and management reporting, while identifying opportunities to improve processes and automate recurring FP&A workflows. The role requires on-site attendance four days per week in Jersey City, New Jersey. It has no direct reports or people-management responsibilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
Typically 4–7 years of relevant experience in FP&A, expense reporting, financial analysis, accounting, or a related corporate finance role.
Solid understanding of financial statements, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, cost allocations, and expense management.
Advanced Excel skills, including building and maintaining financial models and working with large datasets.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain financial concepts and analytical findings to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
Ability to work independently, take ownership of deliverables, and follow through to completion.
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Proactive communication and effective cross-functional partnership.
Intellectual curiosity, adaptability, and willingness to learn new systems and tools.
Continuous-improvement mindset focused on automation, efficiency, controls, and scalable processes.
Comfort working with evolving processes, complex financial data, and changing business requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the insurance or broader financial services industry; familiarity with insurance concepts is a plus.
Proficiency with Power Query and/or Power BI.
Experience with enterprise financial systems such as Oracle, SAP, Hyperion, or FCCS.
Experience improving reporting processes, automating recurring workflows, or increasing data quality and efficiency.
Exposure to data analytics, automation, or AI-enabled solutions in a finance context.
Big Four or similar professional-services experience.

Responsibilities

Analyze expenses across business units and functions, including actual-versus-budget, forecast, and prior-period variances, and identify and explain key drivers.
Support annual budgeting, periodic forecasting, and long-range expense planning, including developing and maintaining allocation methodologies and cost drivers.
Prepare recurring expense reporting packages, management analyses, and presentations for finance and business stakeholders.
Maintain and enhance financial models, datasets, reports, and dashboards using Excel, Power Query, Power BI, and related tools.
Work with large structured datasets and perform reconciliations and validation procedures to ensure accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
Support the design, testing, and implementation of expense planning and reporting processes in Oracle or similar enterprise financial systems.
Partner with business and functional teams to understand expense trends, operating drivers, risks, and opportunities.
Identify and implement improvements to recurring expense reporting, forecasting, and data-preparation processes.
Use automation and AI-enabled tools where appropriate to improve financial analysis, reporting quality, and workflow efficiency.
Maintain documentation, controls, assumptions, and audit trails for financial models, allocation processes, and reporting outputs.
Independently manage assigned deliverables, promptly escalate issues, and meet reporting and planning deadlines.
Support ad hoc financial analysis and special projects.