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Kemper is one of the nation’s leading specialized insurers. Our success is a direct reflection of the talented and diverse people who make a positive difference in the lives of our customers every day. We believe a high-performing culture, valuable opportunities for personal development and professional challenge, and a healthy work-life balance can be highly motivating and productive. Kemper’s products and services are making a real difference to our customers, who have unique and evolving needs. By joining our team, you are helping to provide an experience to our stakeholders that delivers on our promises.

Position Summary:

Kemper Health is adding a Senior Financial Analyst to their growing finance team to support the strategic initiatives. This role is a great opportunity for the right person who wants to be part of a dynamic team poised to make impactful contributions to the growth of the business.

The ideal candidate will build financial models, reports, and presentations to support internal planning and budgeting as well as to support external reporting. In this role you will be reporting to the Director, FP&A for Kemper Health and will interface regularly with Business and Functional Leaders on financial needs. This includes providing in-depth analysis and recommendations enabling leaders to make data-driven decisions. Candidates must demonstrate strong analytical, critical thinking and communication skills. Candidates must conduct themselves with the utmost professionalism.

Position Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain and calibrate business models to facilitate effective planning, analysis and decision making throughout the organization
• Build and maintain monthly, department level, driver based, expense forecast models; lead unit cost analysis to understand fixed vs variable expense
• Aggregate and organize financial data from multiple platforms and systems; suggest procedural changes to increase the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of models and reports used or produced by the team
• Develops and/or assists in developing budgets, reporting, and forecasting of expense for Kemper Health, guide Functional Leaders in the expense budget process
• Drive actionable information and advice to teams. Evaluate financial outcomes of various decision alternatives; advise on key business planning assumptions, identify, and quantify risks and/or opportunities
• Translate content needed for senior level presentations; ensure content provided meets requirements; assist in preparation of presentations for senior management
• Drives expense reporting objectives within the team and responsible for maintaining the periodic goals to meet the year end objectives
• Support Health close process and project reporting
• Seek out ways to continuously improve processes; support project analysis and input on business cases and provide additional support across

Position Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in a finance role with analysis experience or equivalent combination of experience
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize work, and handle multiple projects and deadlines in a complex business environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a quantitative discipline
• Strong knowledge of Excel including Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, Macros, and formulas
• Advanced Excel skills required
• Intermediate skills in Workday, Adaptive, SQL or Tableau preferred but not required

Kemper is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, disability status or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We are committed to supporting diversity and equality across our organization and we work diligently to maintain a workplace free from discrimination. Kemper is focused on expanding our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion efforts to align with our vision, mission, and guiding principles. Kemper does not accept unsolicited resumes through or from search firms or staffing agencies. All unsolicited resumes will be considered the property of Kemper and Kemper will not be obligated to pay a placement fee.

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