Senior Business Analyst/Project Leader, Special Projects-Boston, MA Job in Boston 02108, Massachusetts US
Senior Business Analyst/Project Leader, Special Projects-Boston, MA
Liberty Mutual Insurance
“Helping people live safer, more secure lives” since 1912, Boston-based Liberty Mutual Insurance is a diversified global insurer and third largest property and casualty insurer in the U.S. based on A.M. Best Company’s report of 2010 net written premium. Liberty Mutual also ranks 82nd on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the U.S. based on 2010 revenue. As of December 31, 2010, Liberty Mutual had $112.4 billion in consolidated assets, $95.4 billion in consolidated liabilities, and $33.2 billion in annual consolidated revenue.
Liberty Mutual Insurance offers a wide range of insurance products and services, including personal automobile, homeowners, workers compensation, property, commercial automobile, general liability, global specialty, group disability, reinsurance and surety.
Liberty Mutual Insurance (www.libertymutual.com) employs over 45,000 people in more than 900 offices throughout the world.
Advance your career at Liberty Mutual - A Fortune 100 Company!
As a Sr. Business Analyst in Personal Market Affinity Finance Operations, you will perform forecasting and expense- and budget-related business research that's designed to mitigate expense growth while supporting decisions that contribute to the growth of profitable business.
Responsibilities:
- Under limited supervision (working individually or as part of a project team), performs complex research and analysis to support business operations and decisions. Extracts information from various sources, manipulates data in spreadsheets; identifies and researches anomalies; and makes recommendations. Creates models to facilitate forecasts for current and future year plans, using information gathered to develop standard reports; draw conclusions about trends and variances; and present information in storyboards to convince internal and external stakeholders to make decisions. E.g., develop/revise a pro forma model to manage dozens of revenue projections to support the business strategy of winning and retaining clients.
- Assists others with conducting new business, expense, and budget-related research by gathering data, identifying options, performing cost-benefit analyses, and creating non-routine analyses and/or recommendations to address problems/issues; makes presentations to department senior managers (Director through SVP level).
- Plays a key role in identifying and implementing cost savings and process improvement projects. Leads improvement efforts to understand, document, and enhance current business processes with a goal to improve overall operational effectiveness and efficiency.
- Work with other teams in the department to coordinate activities and project work in order to ensure that Liberty meets customer expectations. Assists in problem resolution as needed to ensure that customers receive prompt, efficient service.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or equivalent experience. Master's Degree in a technical or business discipline or related experience is preferred but not required.
- Effective analytical/problem solving and research skills. Proficiency with spreadsheets and database software required. Experience with data modeling and creating efficiencies through automation preferred.
- Strong communication skills to effectively exchange information (verbally and in writing) with people inside and outside of the Company, as well as the ability to negotiate effectively and superior organizational abilities.
- This person will support both expense management and new business forecasting/development for a sales and marketing department. The ability to successfully manage relationships and multiple priorities is required.
- The ability to present complex issues succinctly to executive management is a must.
Benefits:
We recognize that talented people are attracted to companies that provide competitive pay, comprehensive benefits packages and outstanding advancement opportunities. For this reason we offer a Comprehensive Benefits Plan that includes the following:
- 401K and Company paid pension plan
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Paid time-off
- Pay-for-Performance
- Discounts on automobile and homeowner's insurance
- Discount fitness memberships
- Flexible spending accounts
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care coverage
- Work/Life resources
- Credit Union membership
- Employee and Dependent life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Long-term care insurance
Overview:
We believe strongly that commercial success can be achieved in a manner consistent with principles and ideals that bind us together as one company, that set us apart from our competitors, and that in the end will allow us to say we have succeeded commercially by doing the right thing the right way.
We believe that the Company's success is inextricably linked to our employees' satisfaction and success: satisfaction that they work for an industry leader committed to improving safety, satisfaction that they work for a company that does the right thing, and satisfaction that the company will reward them for their contributions and provide opportunities for personal growth and success.
We believe our employees take pride in knowing that they help people live safer more secure lives everyday.
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