Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Skyward Specialty Insurance is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to help shape business performance through insightful analysis and strong partnership. This role involves supporting financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis while delivering actionable insights to strengthen data-driven decision making.
Responsibilities
- Help business leaders make informed decisions by developing financial models, analyzing performance trends, summarizing key assumptions, and translating results into clear insights
- Partner and underwriting leaders on timely analysis that supports strategic priorities, including financial modeling of new business opportunities
- Build, maintain, and enhance reports, dashboards, and analyses within planning, financial reporting, Power BI, and other business intelligence tools to improve self-service analytics and reporting efficiency
- Develop analysis and presentation materials for quarterly business reviews with divisional leaders and Executive Management
- Prepare, review, and distribute quarterly profit and loss statements, including variance explanations, key business drivers, and opportunities to improve financial visibility
- Promote a culture of personal responsibility/accountability and open communication
- Ensure fair and ethical policies and practices in all relationships and operations
Skills
- Experience managing multiple priorities with competing deadlines, with the ability to adjust approach as needed
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational skills with a proactive approach to identifying issues, improving processes, and driving work forward
- Analytical curiosity and ownership mindset, with the ability to ask thoughtful questions, connect financial results to business drivers, and follow through on commitments
- Ability to manage deadlines during key planning, forecasting, reporting, and business review cycles
- Sound judgment and comfort working through complex issues, balancing detail orientation with a practical understanding of business priorities
- Exercise initiative, demonstrate adaptability, service motivation, respect the differences of others, and accept personal responsibility
- Meet deadlines and work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated effectiveness working independently in a hybrid or remote environment
- Working knowledge of Power BI or other business intelligence tools, with interest in applying AI-enabled tools to modernize FP&A reporting, improve analysis, and reduce manual processes
- Minimum four (4) year degree from an accredited institution, Accounting/Finance
- 2–4 years of experience with accounting, financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis
- Prior experience working at an insurance company is a plus, but not a requirement
- Experience with Power BI or other business intelligence tools preferred; familiarity with AI-enabled tools for reporting, analysis, automation, or process improvement is a plus
Benefits
- Performance-based incentives
- Health and welfare benefits
- Tuition and professional certification assistance
- 401k savings
- Elective participation in the Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Child bonding leave
- Other employee assistance
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