Unum Group

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:

• Award-winning culture
• Inclusion and diversity as a priority
• Performance Based Incentive Plans
• Competitive benefits package that includes: Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
• Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
• Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
• Mental health support
• Career advancement opportunities
• Student loan repayment options
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible work environments
• All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans.

And that’s just the beginning…

With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team. Help us help others, and join Team Unum today!

General Summary:

Unum’s Broker Compensation team is seeking a Business Programmer II, the second level in a four-tier career path. This role involves designing, coding, testing, and maintaining applications that support business functions. Projects are typically medium in scope and range from moderately to highly complex, requiring knowledge of established programming procedures and data processing.

This is a hybrid opportunity out of our Chattanooga, TN and Portland, Maine Campus.

Job Specifications

• Bachelor degree or equivalent related work experience is required.
• 3 – 6+ years experience of business or financial analysis, management reporting, or related work experience is required.

Technical Experience

• Experience with query, reporting and analysis tools in a mainframe environment, such as QlikView, SAS and Easytrieve Plus, is required.
• 2+ years of Business Programming
• Advanced PC skills required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, etc.).
• VBA Coding experience needed
• Strong SQL Skills required
• Python and COBOL are a plus
• Experience working with a Data Warehouse or relational databases is required.
• Solid understanding of data modeling, extraction, transformation and batch load processing is required.
• Knowledge of business systems is preferred.

Business Experience

• Insurance industry knowledge is preferred.
• Cross-functional general knowledge of the business or operational processes or in-depth knowledge of a business or operational process is preferred.

Additional Skill-Set Requirements

• Highly motivated and self-directed.
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment.
• Ability to prioritize work under the pressure of deadlines.
• Demonstrated analytical skills.
• Good problem solving skills.
• Good project management skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Strong collaborative skills with functional area management, business analysts and IT staff.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Development (30%)

• Design, code, test and troubleshoot programs utilizing the appropriate hardware, database, and programming technology.
• Maintain and modify existing programs; make approved changes.
• Develop simple applications utilizing the appropriate hardware, database, and programming technology.
• Test and develop programming modifications.
• Write new program code using prescribed specifications.
• Write and maintain programming documentation.

Analysis (15%)

• Evaluate simple interrelationships between programs such as whether a contemplated change in one part of a program would cause unwanted results in a related part.
• Analyze performance of programs and take actions to correct deficiencies based on consultations with users and approval of supervisor.

Consulting (15%)

• Confer with users to gain understanding of needed changes or modifications of existing programs. Resolve questions of program intent, data input, output requirements, and inclusion of internal checks and controls.

Management Reporting (35%)

• Conduct or support low to moderate level of analysis and research of data to support management decision making.

Other (5%)

• Maintain confidentiality with regard to the information being processed, stored or accessed.
• Other duties as assigned.

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Unum and Colonial Life are part of Unum Group, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of employee benefits to companies worldwide. Headquartered in Chattanooga, TN, with international offices in Ireland, Poland and the UK, Unum also has significant operations in Portland, ME, and Baton Rouge, LA - plus over 35 US field offices. Colonial Life is headquartered in Columbia, SC, with over 40 field offices nationwide.

Unum is an equal opportunity employer, considering all qualified applicants and employees for hiring, placement, and advancement, without regard to a person's race, color, religion, national origin, age, genetic information, military status, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or protected veteran status.

The base salary range for applicants for this position is listed below. Unless actual salary is indicated above in the job description, actual pay will be based on skill, geographical location and experience.

$53,300.00-$100,700.00

Additionally, Unum offers a portfolio of benefits and rewards that are competitive and comprehensive including healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental), insurance benefits (short & long-term disability), performance-based incentive plans, paid time off, and a 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not. All benefits are subject to the terms and conditions of individual Plans.

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