Lead Financial Analyst

When you enter a finance and accounting position at Liberty Mutual Insurance, you'll find the same dynamic environment and challenges as within other organizations. Yet you'll find something more: an opportunity to

apply your analytic and technical skills to a company renowned for its integrity and focus on developing its employees' careers. This Lead Financial Analyst role will support the Enterprise Functions FP&A team with primary responsibility for Liberty Mutual’s Real Estate portfolio and Enterprise Transformation & Solutions. You will lead planning, forecasting and monthly reporting for these areas, deliver insightful variance and trend analysis, and provide actionable recommendations to senior management to support decision‑making for operations, program spend and the real estate portfolio.

PLEASE READ: Typical starting salary for this position is $97,000-$122,500 and is based on experience and geographical location. This position may have in-office requirements depending on candidate's location. Preferred locations for this role are Boston, MA or Portsmouth, NH.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the annual planning and multi‑year forecasting processes for Enterprise Transformation & Solutions and Real Estate, including development of assumptions, consolidation of inputs, and presentation of plan packages to leadership.
• Drive the monthly reforecast and rolling forecast cadence: collect business inputs, update projections, perform sensitivity and scenario analysis, and reconcile variances to prior forecasts and plan.
• Own the monthly reporting for these areas—prepare standardized financial and operational reports, executive summaries, dashboards and KPIs for senior stakeholders and the Corporate Functions finance team.
• Perform timely, rigorous variance analyses (plan vs. actual, forecast vs. actual, prior period and multi‑year trends), identify key drivers, perform follow‑up investigation and recommend corrective actions or opportunities
• Obtain and validate required data from internal systems (general ledger, fixed assets, lease management, expense systems) and external sources as needed; ensure data integrity and appropriate reconciliations.
• Ensure timeliness, accuracy and completeness of all reports and analyses by maintaining full documentation of recurring job duties, data sources, assumptions and calculation methodologies; update documentation to reflect process or system changes.
• Partner with budget managers, real estate operations, Accounting, Procurement and treasury to align on budget vs. spend, capital and operating classifications, lease accounting impacts (e.g., ASC 842), and to support month‑end close activities.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, controls enhancements and tool rationalization to increase efficiency and scalability of planning, forecasting and reporting activities.
• Provide ad‑hoc financial modeling and business case support for strategic initiatives, site acquisitions/dispositions, lease renewals, workplace strategy changes and transformation investments.
• Present findings and recommendations to finance leadership and business partners in a clear, concise manner to support strategic decision making.

You will use a broad knowledge of financial practices and procedures to produce high quality analysis and provide strategy recommendations that advance Liberty Mutual’s enterprise transformation objectives and real estate portfolio strategy.