Manager, Financial Analysis

Liberty Mutual•Boston, MA

About The Position

The Manager – Enterprise FP&A will help advance the CFO’s long-term vision for Finance by translating strategic priorities into practical, technology-enabled solutions and supporting their implementation across the Finance organization. Reporting to the Director of Enterprise FP&A, this role coordinates and executes a multi-year transformation of how Finance plans, analyzes, and reports financial and operational performance, with a focus on integrated, efficient, and forward-looking capabilities. Working with Enterprise FP&A leadership and Finance stakeholders, the role translates future-state objectives into project plans, coordinates cross-functional initiatives, and supports solutions from concept through implementation and adoption. Focus areas include modernizing management reporting and performance analytics, improving connectivity across strategic, capital, and financial planning, and exploring automation, AI, and emerging technologies. The role partners with Finance Transformation & Enablement, SBU FP&A teams, Capital Management, and aligned data and technology teams to translate business needs into requirements and coordinate scalable solutions. Success requires bringing structure to complex initiatives, building productive relationships, proactively resolving challenges, and supporting adoption of new capabilities. With guidance and sponsorship from Finance leadership, the Manager helps deliver measurable improvements in Finance efficiency, analytical capabilities, and decision support.

Requirements

Strong background in FP&A, finance transformation, or a related finance role, with experience in planning, forecasting, management reporting, performance analysis, and executive decision support.
Demonstrated process-improvement mindset, including experience redesigning workflows, simplifying processes, and reducing manual or low-value work.
Strong understanding of finance technology and data capabilities; ideally includes Anaplan, Power BI, Excel, automation, and emerging AI tools.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects from problem definition and solution design through implementation, adoption, and measurement of results.
Ability to translate Finance business needs into clear process, data, reporting, and technology requirements for technical partners.
Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, including the ability to build alignment across Finance, data, technology, and transformation teams without direct authority.
Analytical, intellectually curious, and change-oriented, with a track record of challenging existing ways of working and delivering measurable business impact.
Minimum of 7 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

Translate the CFO’s vision for Finance into actionable transformation initiatives by understanding future-state objectives, assessing current capabilities, identifying improvement opportunities, and developing practical plans.
Manage cross-functional transformation projects and workstreams from initial planning through implementation and adoption.
Establish project plans, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and stakeholder responsibilities; coordinate execution; identify risks and issues; and work with leadership to resolve challenges and keep initiatives on track.
Partner with Finance stakeholders, including SBU Finance, Capital Management, Finance Transformation & Enablement, and other teams, to understand business needs, facilitate discussions, build alignment, and support organizational change.
Advance long-term planning capabilities by collaborating with SBU FP&A, Capital Management, Planning & Analytics, Product Owners, and the Anaplan Community of Practice to improve connectivity across strategic, capital, and financial planning, expand scenario analysis, and develop integrated, scalable planning processes.
Coordinate initiatives to modernize management reporting and performance analytics, improve integration of financial, operational, and external data, streamline management information production, and strengthen executive decision support.
Identify and help implement opportunities to use automation, AI, and emerging technologies to improve Finance workflows, reduce manual activities, strengthen analytics, and enable more forward-looking analysis and business decision support.
Track and communicate transformation progress and impact, maintain visibility into milestones, deliverables, risks, and outcomes, prepare Finance leadership updates, identify continuous-improvement opportunities, and help measure solution benefits.