Sr. Strategic Financial Analyst

The Standard • Portland, OR

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Standard is dedicated to helping customers achieve financial well-being and peace of mind, upholding a legacy of financial stability and investing in innovative technologies. The company fosters a high-performance culture focused on operational excellence, driven by compassion and a customer-first commitment. The Senior Strategic Finance Analyst acts as a finance business partner, ensuring sound financial management practices. This role involves collaborating with executives and senior management to develop and implement plans that optimize resource utilization for balanced financial, operational, and strategic business outcomes. The analyst will leverage a strong understanding of the Life, Absence and Disability (LAD) goals and company strategy to translate them into actionable financial objectives, focusing on business results and outcomes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or other related field required
• 10+ years of experience in a client-focused finance partner or finance consultant role.
• Proven ability to gather and analyze data, perform financial and strategic analysis and drive business cases that tell a story and make recommendations that lead to action.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to build trust and credibility throughout a matrixed leadership environment.
• As a trusted partner, you have a voice at the table to challenge assumptions and influence the best business decisions through financial acumen.
• Solid business acumen with a demonstrated understanding of the business, its operations, market trends and the competitive landscape.
• Able to effectively communicate with stakeholders to provide insight into business operations, financials and the impacts on organizational success.
• Proactively identifies trends and patterns and provides analysis and recommendations to stakeholders and decision makers, to define, implement, and deliver on financial strategy.
• Adapts quickly to changing priorities and is comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty driven by a fast-changing environment and constant new challenges.

Nice To Haves

• advanced degree preferred
• CPA, CMA or MBA preferred

Responsibilities

• Develops and facilitates financial management programs that draw the link between financial, operational and business strategy to drive measurable results.
• Partners with the business to implement key processes and tools that ensure transparency, collaboration and discipline in decision-making and monitors effectiveness through the tracking of key measures.
• Effectively advises and influences the business on a wide variety of business issues and leads positive change internally
• Conceptualizes solutions and develops alternatives to complex problems with a broad perspective applied to decision making.
• Highly sought-after by the business to provide depth and breadth of consultation.
• Experience analyzing and influencing outcomes of operational efficiency initiatives (i.e. benchmarking, Lean, structured problem solving, etc.)
• Develops complex financial models and analysis using advanced analytical techniques and financial systems.
• Articulates complex and/or complicated issues with a high level of skill, including the ability to extract and articulate key business issues in a manner that is meaningful to the audience
• Mentors junior analysts and helps educate leadership and management on strategic Finance topics such as cost-benefit, return on investment, resource analysis, cost competitiveness

Benefits

• A rich benefits package including medical, dental, vision and a 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
• An annual incentive bonus plan
• Generous paid time off including 11 holidays, 2 wellness days, and 8 volunteer hours annually — PTO increases with tenure
• A supportive, responsive management approach and opportunities for career growth and advancement
• Paid parental leave and adoption/surrogacy assistance
• An employee giving program that double matches your donations to eligible nonprofits and schools

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees