FP&A Analyst

Location: Richmond, VA

What part will you play? If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it.

The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward and seize opportunities, and you’ll find your fit amongst our global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

As an FP&A Analyst, you'll turn financial data into insights that guide real business decisions, working alongside a global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We're always pushing each other to go further because we believe that when we realize our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

As an FP&A Analyst, you will play a key role in a broad range of financial planning and analysis activities, delivering insights, solutions and services that help our internal business partners make informed decisions. Core responsibilities include supporting the annual budget and quarterly forecast cycles, building and maintaining financial models, contributing to the incentive compensation process, identifying and piloting new analytical and AI tools, and producing clear, actionable reporting. Success in this role requires strong analytical thinking paired with excellent communication skills.

Job Responsibilities

• Supports the compilation and analysis of the annual budget and quarterly forecast
• Produce clear reports that summarize financial output, issues and recommendations
• Develops and maintains models and tools to support effective and efficient analysis
• Provide decision support through value added analysis and financial insights
• Works with business partners to gain a deeper understanding of financial data, to confirm assumptions, and validate output of analyses
• Analyzes insights on competitor and industry analysis workflows
• Identifies and pilots new analytical and AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, Power Query) to improve the speed and quality of data analysis and reporting
• Supports reporting needs of the broader organization to provide increased visibility of financial performance
• Identifies, recommends and implements continuous process improvement
• Documents standard processes and process flows
• Participate in ad hoc initiatives as they arise
• Travel to other Markel offices, conferences, etc. as required