Business Strategist Lead - Alternative Capital Solutions

Why USAA

At USAA our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA where our core values honesty integrity loyalty and service define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

The Opportunity

USAA is seeking a Business Strategist Lead Alternative Capital Solutions to drive transformative strategies in insurance capital management and risk financing. This role is critical in exploring alternative capital solutions such as Excess & Surplus (E&S) insurance special purpose vehicles (SPVs) catastrophe risk solutions reinsurance structures (quota share parametric and other mechanisms) and other innovative capitalraising approaches to enhance affordability and coverage for USAA members.

As a key member of the Property & Casualty (P&C) Innovation Team the Lead will collaborate with internal and external partners to strategize design and test and implement parametric insurance solutions and other capital strategies that reduce USAAs liability exposure while maintaining financial strength and a positive balance sheet. This role requires a deep understanding of capital markets risk financing parametric insurance and the evolving insurance landscape to ensure sustainable and fiscally responsible innovation.

This candidate will also be responsible for managing and communicating the progress and outcomes of business strategic and operational efforts with senior leadership throughout the planning process and ongoing. Provides thought leadership resources support guardrails and guidance to enable senior leaders across CoSA and enterprise to achieve strategic goals. Contributes to the sustainability of CoSA and functional strategies while also ensuring all production and expense targets are achievable for the plan horizon.

This position can work remotely in the continental U.S. with occasional business travel.

What youll do:

• Leverages expert business acumen critical thinking abstract thinking and empathy to independently reframe business problems into business opportunities.
• Leads crossfunctional teams to evaluate business strategies across Enterprise P&C Group and P&C entitylevel viewpoints. Engages key stakeholders to facilitate comprehensive impact analysis across capital liquidity reinsurance tax accounting legal regulatory risk and operational disciplines.
• Develops custom project approaches to uniquely address the specific needs of each defined initiative ensuring a deep focus on achieving business objectives.
• Leads diverse audiences including partners senior executive leadership stakeholders and users towards a shared vision and desired outcomes through impactful communication and engagement strategies.
• Conducts comprehensive strategic analysis employing advanced data analysis skills to manipulate interpret and study additional data sources to translate findings into comprehensive actionable insights for further business strategy development.
• Synthesizes and interprets large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data to create narratives that communicate strategic recommendations These recommendations may include audience and market recommendations; vision advantage scope; experience guardrails; journey maps; prototypes; sketches; visual concepts; narratives; white papers; blueprints.
• Maintains a deep understanding of business needs goals and challenges and connects all aspects of the business strategy to tell a cohesive impactful story aligning to the enterprise corporate strategy.
• Defines and executes recommendations to enhance the business strategy practice ensuring alignment of business strategies to the enterprise corporate strategy
• Elevates experience related opportunities to USAA strategic planning process.
• Executes and evolves functional strategies developed in partnership with the CoSA strategy team.
• Understands and supports the of functional CoSA and enterprise strategies with functional implications.
• Partners with the CoSA strategy team on the USAA strategic planning process.
• Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified measured monitored and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

What you have:

• Bachelors Degree OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• 8 years of business strategy experience to include 4 years of experience leading strategy engagements.
• Deep expertise in industries such as financial services and/or insurance.
• Ability to identify strategic needs and lead all aspects of projects with sound business recommendations and alignment with key business partners.
• Demonstrated experience influencing business decisions and driving strategic outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience translating complex business strategy and vision into an executable business process and technology plan and successfully delivering component.
• Demonstrated technical Consulting Skills including but not limited to Hypothesisdriven problem solving; Primary Market research (e.g. interviews); Secondary Market research (e.g. desk research); Data analysis (e.g. whatif sensitivity etc.; Story Telling; PowerPoint / Excel; Presentation skills; Meeting Leadership
• Advanced quantitative analytical written and oral communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively with crossfunctional teams and stakeholders at all levels.

What sets you apart:

• Masters degree (MBA CFA or actuarial credentials such as FCAS/ACAS preferred).
• Experience designing and launching parametric insurance products including climaterelated natural disaster and supply chain risk solutions.
• 10 years of experience in insurance reinsurance capital markets or risk financing with a strong background in alternative capital strategies.

Compensation range: The salary range for this position is: $143320 $273930.

USAA does not provide visa sponsorship for this role. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e. H1B TN STEM OPT Training Plans etc..

Compensation: USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market data of the position. The actual salary for this role may vary by location.

Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance and at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.

Benefits: At USAA our employees enjoy bestinclass benefits to support their physical financial and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical dental and vision plans 401(k) pension life insurance parental benefits adoption assistance paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours and various wellness programs. Additionally our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.

For more details on our outstanding benefits visit our benefits page on .

Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.

USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or status as a protected veteran.