Highlights
The Business Unit FP&A team primarily partners with leaders in the Underwriting and Actuarial departments to deliver deeper insight into P&L results, driving improvements in top-line growth, expense management, and profitability. Additionally, this role will seek opportunities to optimize and streamline reporting, build out new analytical resources, lead special projects, and be a key player in financial forecasts and plans.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
| Industry | Other/Not Classified |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1940 |
| Website | https://www.cna.org/ |
Description
You have a clear vision of where your career can go. And we have the leadership to help you get there. At CNA, we strive to create a culture in which people know they matter and are part of something important, ensuring the abilities of all employees are used to their fullest potential.
About CNA
CNA is one of the largest U.S. commercial property and casualty insurance companies. Backed by more than 120 years of experience, CNA provides a broad range of standard and specialized insurance products and services for businesses and professionals in the U.S., Canada and Europe.
About the Finance Team
We are trusted partners who enable smart, informed decisions that enhance shareholder value. We are a group of nimble, resilient and tenacious finance professionals who thrive on solving problems, continuously learning, and improving outcomes. We are strengthened by diversity and we are committed to inclusion. Most of all, we are all leaders. We unlock our full potential by investing in our development – both individually and together, as a team.
We’re looking for team members who are excited about developing and growing their careers while moving our business forward.
About the Job
CNA Is seeking an experienced Financial Analysis Consultant to join the Business Unit FP&A Team. The Business Unit FP&A team primarily partners with leaders in the Underwriting and Actuarial departments to deliver deeper insight into P&L results, driving improvements in top-line growth, expense management, and profitability. Additionally, this role will seek opportunities to optimize and streamline reporting, build out new analytical resources, lead special projects, and be a key player in financial forecasts and plans.
This role is located in Chicago, IL and team comes into the office in a hybrid model.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Your Day to Day
- Leverage financial expertise to recognize and resolve emerging issues, independently investigate anomalies and variances in data
- Influence decision-makers through effective verbal and written communication
- Extract or summarize key insights, clearly and concisely to communicate insights with actionable recommendations to senior leadership
- Manage multiple constituents and requests to build relationships and deliver maximum value to the organization
- Prepare business cases to support decision-making by identifying innovative strategies for revenue growth and cost reduction
- Develop forecast models based on comparative performance metrics and implement improvements as the business grows
- Drive process improvement and automation
- Lead special projects with minimal direction
- Coach, lead and develop less experienced analysts while fostering a positive, open team environment
Skills & Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of corporate and departmental accounting/finance practices, procedures and principles. Knowledge of an insurance organization and industry a plus
- Advanced modeling skills including advanced Excel skills
- Track record of delivering results with a high degree of accuracy
- Ability to work independently and self-motivate in a rapidly changing environment
- Ability to work with senior business partners with tight deadlines
- Experience preferred with the following or equivalent tools/systems: Tableau Prep, Alteryx, Tableau, PowerBI, Workday, Adaptive, Thoughtspot, and Looker
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics or business, or equivalent
- 5 to 7 years of finance experience or a related analytical field with progressively increasing levels of responsibility
This position may be filled at the Senior Financial Analyst level based on experience and qualifications.
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In certain jurisdictions, CNA is legally required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. In District of Columbia,California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois,Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Washington,the national base pay range for this job level is $72,000 to $141,000 annually. Salary determinations are based on various factors, including but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals. For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.
CNA utilizes AI-enabled technology during the recruiting process. For more information, please visit our careers page.
CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact
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About Company
CNA's approach to research is a modern iteration of the Newtonian principle that complex, dynamic processes are best understood through direct observation of events and people.
That was the methodology CNA analysts first applied in the 1940s when they pioneered the field of operations research by helping the Navy address the German U-boat threat. Not content to study the problem from afar, this small group of MIT scientists insisted on deploying with Navy forces in order to observe operations and collect the data needed for meaningful analyses. Their groundbreaking work, and the anti-submarine warfare equations it produced, set a standard for operations research methods that CNA has maintained for 75 years.
Today, with more than 500 professionals at our headquarters and 50 researchers in the field, CNA still takes a multi-disciplinary, real-world approach to our work. On-site analysts carefully observe all aspects of a process—people, decisions, actions, consequences—and then collaborate with a headquarters-based research team to assess data and arrive at findings.
CNA's objective, empirical research and analysis helps decision makers develop sound policies, make better-informed decisions, and manage programs more effectively. Our work, which in its early decades focused solely on defense-related matters, has grown to include investigation and analysis of a broad range of national security, defense, and public interest issues including education, homeland security and air traffic management. Through our Center for Naval Analyses and Institute for Public Research, we provide public-sector organizations with the tools they need to tackle the complex challenges of making government more efficient and keeping our country safe and strong.