Lead Financial Analyst (Hybrid)

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About The Business

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency. We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient. You can learn more about LexisNexis Risk at the link below, https://risk.lexisnexis.com/

 

About The Team

Insurance Finance Decision Support team is a dynamic and collaborative group dedicated to providing critical financial insights and support to drive Insurance's strategic objectives.  We focus on decision support and creating financial visibility through partnering, reporting, and financial metrics. We work to ensure financial information is timely, accurate, and actionable. We collaborate in a fast-paced environment, contribute to innovative solutions, and support our business partners.

 

This position will be hybrid from our Alpharetta, GA offices.

 About The Job

The Insurance Decision Support Lead Analyst role is focused on providing essential data-driven insights to guide executive level decision-making, collaborating across departments, and having a direct impact on financial performance. You will be responsible for expense management, month-end and forecasting responsibilities, consolidation activities, as well as reporting for business support.  Our ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys business partnering through communication and financial management, and is passionate about financial analysis that provide actionable insights.  This position focuses on Insurance consolidation across all expenses and analysis and reporting on Labor/FTE, Marketing, Travel and all other expense line items including acquisition, integration related items, and Tier 2 expenses. This role will also support revenue consolidation activities. This role will collaborate across Insurance decision support teams, accounting and compliance teams, as well as FPR&A. Primary decision support teams include Insurance Analytics, Marketing, and BPMO.

Responsibilities

• Independently gathers, interprets, and analyzes information, makes assessments, and completes reconciliations.
• Provides critical financial insights to the executive team by conducting in-depth analysis, scenario planning, and trend identification that guides strategic decision-making.
• Gains a deep understanding of our financial systems and processes.
• Analyzes large sets of data and extracts valuable insights to present to leadership and business partners.
• Supports month-end close activities, preparing and analyzing schedules and understands their impact on the overall financials.
• Identifies problem areas when looking at information, seeing patterns, trends, or missing pieces, and identifies the similarities. Questions inconsistencies in financial data and makes recommendations to resolve.
• Identifies improvements and enhancements, documenting and recommending appropriate course of action, and assists with implementing new processes.
• Supports and provides guidance to other functional areas, helps with questions, and assists them with solutions.
• Provides guidance and support to other analysts within the department and sets a positive example.
• Performs Ad hoc analysis as needed.
  
  

 Qualifications

• 5 years prior experience of substantial diverse financial analysis and accounting
• BA/BS, Accounting/Finance
• Advanced computer skills including Excel, Essbase, Hyperion
• Understanding of financial system structures and data flows
• Attention to detail, advanced analytical and problem-solving skills to identify problem areas when reviewing data/information and question inconsistencies to determine proper resolution
• Advanced organizational and time management skills
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Ability to complete financial analysis with minimal direction
  
  

Benefits

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
• Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
• Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
• Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
• Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
• In addition to annual Paid Time Off, we offer up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice