Specialist - Financial Planning & Analysis

Argo Group International Holdings, Inc.and American National, US based specialty P&C companies, (together known as BP&C, Inc.) are wholly owned subsidiaries of Brookfield Wealth Solutions, Ltd. ("BWS"), a New York and Toronto-listed public company. BWS is a leading wealth solutions provider, focused on securing the financial futures of individuals and institutions through a range of wealth protection and retirement services, and tailored capital solutions.

Job Description

Argo Group, through its operating subsidiaries, offers high-quality commercial Property and Casualty (P&C) insurance products and services tailored to the needs of businesses and public entities. At Argo Group, we leverage the success, discipline and expertise of our people and an understanding of our customers' needs to provide a diverse portfolio of products and services. This approach helps those we insure drive down their ultimate cost through prevention and aggressive claims handling. Simply stated, our products and services help keep businesses in business.

Argo Group currently has a challenging opportunity for a Financial Planning Analyst located in San Antonio, TX. This self-motivated individual will support the planning, forecasting and analysis of financial activities at the corporate level and report to Corporate FP&A.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist in analytical review of actual results versus prior year, plan, and forecast at varying levels of the organization for support functions and business segments.
• Interact with business department leaders across Argo Group, communicating a clear point of view and providing analytical support.
• Provide expense oversight, reporting, and variance analysis to key business partners.
• Partner with business teams by providing financial expertise for key business decisions in a timely, accurate and actionable manner.
• Assist business leaders in financial planning and forecasting activities.
• Work closely with business teams to create financial models and analyses that provide intelligence for key business decisions.
• Ability to coordinate and manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Ability to consolidate and model large amounts of data to work with business owners to answer key business questions.
• Other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent analytical discipline.
• Strong relationship building, interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
• Track record of working with business owners to develop and define key business questions and build datasets to answer those questions.
• Experience building complex and dynamic ad hoc models, clearly identifying assumptions and drivers.
• 3+ years of experience in planning, forecasting and financial modeling.
• Experience with Oracle, Cognos BI and Cognos Planning or Hyperion is preferred.
• Property & Casualty insurance industry experience is preferred.
• Advanced analytical skills.
• Proficient in the use of computer programs, including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.