Financial Planning & Analysis Lead
Financial Planning & Analysis Lead
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$ 86500 - 160000
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Job Description
Finance business partners (FBPs) empower financially sound planning and decision making throughout the organization. You will do this by coaching others in financial acumen and telling compelling datadriven stories to spur action. The Information Technology (IT) Lead Business Partner is a member of Securians FP&A Team and is responsible for supporting overall Expense Management of Securians IT Division.
In this role you will engage IT Leaders in the budgeting and forecasting process cost center management expense monitoring and variance analysis and serve as a liaison between IT leaders and business areas profit center finance teams to review both budget and actual expenses including allocations. As a senior FBP you will take a datadriven approach to partner with business leaders enabling decision makers to make sound financial decisions.
As the lead IT business partner the CIO and IT senior leaders will rely on you as a soughtafter thoughtpartner for strategic decisions and for insights that help achieve performance targets and outcomes. You will work closely with other members of the IT business partner team to provide holistic IT finance reporting and analysis.
Responsibilities
Assess and anticipate decision makers needs:
- Build strong relationships with executives and business unit leaders to understand their financial needs and challenges and anticipate the most effective support path.
- Surface nonexecutive decision makers latent needs by actively listening to uncover new opportunities for creating FP&A decision support tools and services.
- Enable rapid improvement in service and support via a continuous feedback loop with all decision makers.
- Bring industry best practice perspectives and ideas to the team including understanding of IT total cost of ownership frameworks and stay uptodate on industry trends and best practices.
Provide support to IT leaders to facilitate strong expense management and financial acumen:
- Review of direct and allocated results and forecasting with IT leaders throughout the year. This will involve leading the team to create publish and present monthly quarterend expense results and forecasts for the IT division.
- Support the quarterly close process including review of accruals to ensure accurate and complete results.
- Proactively identify expense reduction opportunities working with IT and finance leaders to assess and action on enterprise reduction strategies.
- Provide support and coaching for IT leaders in support of business case best practices including development of cost / benefit analysis.
Provide leadership for the IT Expense budgeting and forecasting processes:
- Serve as the lead contact for IT during the annual budget process understanding IT initiatives and staffing needs to develop the budget for approval.
- Support IT leaders in determining strategies to close any gaps between projected expenses and expense targets.
- Partner with IT leaders (and IT business partner team) to review allocation methods to ensure operational expenses are charged to the appropriate business areas.
Serve as the liaison between IT and business areas:
- Ensure that IT leaders understand how expenses are allocated to business areas and that business areas understand the expenses they are being charged for in order to facilitate expense management discussions across teams.
- Lead review of allocation methods at least annually and ensure that all parties are aligned on expense allocation impacts as part of the decision making process for any new expenses.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field such as finance or accounting. MBA preferred.
- Extensive experience in Information Technology financial planning and analysis including budgeting forecasting and financial modelling.
- Demonstrated financial data analysis and problemsolving skills to effectively research analyze and respond to stakeholder questions.
- Strong analytical skills with a high attention to detail.
- Experience with Apptio SAP or other BI tools.
- Proven history of building and maintaining strong relationships with business unit leaders and other stakeholders
- Experience in collaborating with crossfunctional teams to create and implement financial decision support tools.
- Leadership or supervisory experience is a plus.
- Selfstarter with strong organizational and timemanagement skills an ability to work with minimal direction flexibility to adapt to shifting priorities and schedules handle multiple issues simultaneously and to manage stressful situations
*Internal Securian Financial job title for this position is Financial Planning & Analysis Sr. Consultant
Securian Financial believes in hybrid work as an integral part of our culture. Associates get the benefit of working both virtually and in our offices. This position requires you to work within a commutable distance (90 minutes) of our Home Office in St. Paul MN youll join us 3 days each week in our offices to collaborate and build relationships. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules. #LIHybrid #PIQ
The estimated base pay range for this job is:
Pay may vary depending on jobrelated factors and individual experience skills knowledge etc. More information on base pay and incentive pay (if applicable) can be discussed with a with a member of the Securian Financial Talent Acquisition team.
Be you. With us. At Securian Financial we understand that attracting top talent means offering more than just a job it means providing a rewarding and fulfilling career. As a valued member of our highperforming team we want you to connect with your work your relationships and your community. Enjoy our comprehensive range of benefits designed to enhance your professional growth wellbeing and worklife balance including the advantages listed here:
Paid time off:
We want you to take time off for what matters most to you. Our PTO program provides flexibility for associates to take meaningful time away from work to relax recharge and spend time doing whats important to them. And Securian Financial rewards associates for their service by providing additional PTO the longer you stay at Securian.
Leave programs: Securians flexible leave programs allow time off from work for parental leave caregiver leave for family members bereavement and military leave.
Holidays: Securian provides nine company paid holidays.
Companyfunded pension plan and a 401(k) retirement plan: Share in the success of our company. Securians 401(k) company contribution is tied to our performance up to 10 percent of eligible earnings with a target of 5 percent. The amount is based on company results compared to goals related to earnings sales and service.
Health insurance: From the first day of employment associates and their eligible family members including spouses domestic partners and children are eligible for medical dental and vision coverage.
Volunteer time: We know the importance of community. Through companysponsored events volunteer paid time off a dollarfordollar matching gift program and more we encourage you to support organizations important to you.
Associate Resource Groups: Build connections be yourself and develop meaningful relationships at work through associateled ARGs. Dedicated groups focus on a variety of interests and affinities including:
Mental Wellness and Disability
Pride at Securian Financial
Securian Young Professionals Network
Securian Multicultural Network
Securian Women and Allies Network
Servicemember Associate Resource Group
For more information regarding Securians benefits please review our Benefits page.
This information is not intended to explain all the provisions of coverage available under these plans. In all cases the plan document dictates coverage and provisions.
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Employment Type
Full-Time
