Budget Analyst

At COUNTRY Financial, our Budget & Expense Analyst builds strong relationships throughout the enterprise, partnering with business areas to understand their expenses, analyze results, and help drive strategies to drive change as needed. This position also provides insight using cost benefit analysis on proposed initiatives and performs industry benchmarking and analysis. In addition, you will build budget and forecast reports to provide valuable insight to leaders to communicate effects on enterprise results.

This position offers a hybrid work schedule and is based out of our corporate offices in Bloomington, IL.

How does a Budget & Expense Analyst make an impact?

• Prepares annual budget for all companies, including budget exhibits that are presented to the Board of Directors for approval.
• Prepares forecasts of financial results reflecting the changes from trends, other resources, and upcoming organizational and regulatory changes.
• Prepares monthly budget variance reports and analysis.
• Prepares ad hoc reports to assist management in evaluation of financial results.
• Develops and maintains applications to support the budget and forecast process and the allocation of expenses.
• Assists, maintains and/or develops an approach that will produce a fair and equitable allocation of expenses utilizing the process costing methodology and initiates or reviews intercompany billings in accordance with service contract agreements.