Financial Analyst

Job Description

Financial Analyst | Unum

The Tone:
This is an early career role at Unum, where you’ll contribute to a company committed to helping client employees thrive through life’s moments. Unum provides essential employee benefits and service solutions globally. In this role, you will play a crucial part within the Finance organization, specializing in Net Investment Income, where your analytical work will directly inform and ground significant business decisions. You will impact customers by ensuring sound financial operations that support the combined talents of the entire team.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Flexible work environments
• Pay: $45600–$86200 yearly
• Team: Finance organization, supporting Net Investment Income
• Mission: This person performs intermediate-level financial analysis and/or accounting to inform and ground business decisions related to Net Investment Income.
• Tech Stack: EXCEL, Word, PowerPoint, General ledger systems, reporting tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Participate: You will actively engage in the regular monthly and quarterly financial cycles.
• Prepare and Reconcile: You will prepare, verify, reconcile, and balance accounts specific to the financial area, ensuring control and accuracy in accounting and reporting by identifying discrepancies and recommending corrective actions.
• Analyze and Report: You will prepare more complex financial analyses for your designated area and generate routine reports for management, demonstrating ownership and applying specialized knowledge.
• Maintain Systems: You will maintain various systems and data assets that support the specific financial areas, assuming ownership of the data related to your assigned analysis.
• Partner: You will collaborate with business areas to provide requested analysis, information, and data, leveraging your specialized working knowledge of Unum’s products and processes.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s degree (required for those after September 2015) or comparable work experience at Unum that prepares and qualifies the individual, along with a basic understanding of multiple financial statement components and their interactions.
• Experience: Zero to three years of comparable experience, exhibiting developing customer service and teamwork skills within the job area.
• Skills: Basic to intermediate EXCEL skills, proficiency in Word and PowerPoint, and strong communication skills relevant to the job.
• Bonus: Experience with general ledger systems and reporting tools is preferred.