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About the Role

This role plays a central position within Group Benefits Finance, supporting financial analytics, performance insights, and strategic decision support across all operational areas. The Financial Analyst partners closely with Operations, Service, Claims, Transformation, Actuarial, FP&A, and senior leadership to deliver actionable insights, enhance cost transparency, and support business decision-making. This role combines operational rigor, executive reporting, and forward-looking analytics to influence financial outcomes and support transformation priorities.

Responsibilities

Analyze business performance, emerging risks, and strategic opportunities across Operations, Service, Claims, and Transformation
Support senior leadership decision-making through targeted financial analysis, business planning, and operational insights
Evaluate unit cost trends and underlying business drivers to identify efficiency and performance improvement opportunities
Communicate financial implications, trade-offs, and risks through clear recommendations
Build and maintain business cases for Claims & Service initiatives, including investments, transformation efforts, and operating model changes
Quantify financial impact, including cost savings, productivity improvements, ROI, payback period, and other value drivers
Track results against business case commitments and identify variances, risks, dependencies, and financial implications
Partner with business leaders to monitor value capture and ensure benefits are realized and sustained
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce cost leakage, and enhance financial outcomes across Claims & Service
Develop executive-ready materials highlighting key insights, trends, risks, and opportunities
Translate complex financial and operational information into clear, actionable insights for leadership
Identify emerging trends in claims experience, service demand, and cost performance
Partner with Operations, Service, Claims, Transformation, Actuarial, Product, and FP&A teams to align financial insights with operational priorities
Support assigned initiatives with financial guidance, decision support, and targeted analysis
Influence outcomes through data-driven recommendations and thoughtful analysis

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Actuarial Science, or related field
4+ years of FP&A, financial analysis, expense management, or operational analytics experience
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to connect financial and operational data
Advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
Ability to synthesize complex data into clear, actionable insights
Strong communication and collaboration skills across functions
Experience in insurance or financial services
Familiarity with operational metrics such as unit cost, productivity, volume, complexity, and claims drivers
Experience supporting transformation initiatives, value capture, or business case development
Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar visualization tools
Analyze variances across actuals, plan, forecast, and prior periods
Identify key drivers of financial and operational performance
Translate data into insights, recommendations, and leadership-ready narratives
Manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work on tight timelines
Bring curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement to recurring reporting and analysis
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.

Skills

Financial Analysis
Decision Support
Business Case Development
Value Capture
Operational Insights
Executive Storytelling
Cross-Functional Partnership
Excel
PowerPoint
Tableau
Power BI

Location

Bethlehem PA
Hudson Yards, NYC
Holmdel, NJ
Pittsfield, MA
Boston, MA

Work Type

Hybrid
2 days WFH

Experience Level

4+ years of FP&A, financial analysis, expense management, or operational analytics experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Actuarial Science, or related field

Salary/Compensations

$86,210.00 - $141,635.00

Benefits

Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
Skill-building
Leadership development
Philanthropic opportunities
Opportunities to build communities and grow your career
Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

About the Company

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.
Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B).
As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at https://www.guardianlife.com/careers). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in our hiring process. All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.
Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to MyHR@glic.com, making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via MyHR@glic.com.
Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here.