Senior Director, Financial Systems – Product Management

At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

The Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) is a private American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase Maryland. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and is the third largest auto insurer in the United 2024 GEICO earned premiums worth over $43 billion U.S. dollars.

At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is in the midst of an exciting transformation as a product and tech powered company. We are recruiting a Product Leader to champion and execute the strategic vision development and execution of innovative digital products and platforms that drive financial transformation within a large complex financial organization. This leader will work closely with internal stakeholders and end-users to help design the future of financial systems embrace emerging technologies like AI machine learning and cloud-based platforms to create efficiencies enhance data-driven decision-making and deliver exceptional experiences. Reporting directly to the Head of Financial Systems this leader will work closely with partners in finance business engineering product and design to realize the vision for the CFO organization.

Location: This is a hybrid role requiring a minimum on-site presence of 3 days per week at our Chicago IL; New York NY or Chevy Chase office.

Position Responsibilities

• Lead Finance Transformation Initiatives:Drive strategic changes in financial processes systems and report to enhance efficiency accuracy and business value within the organization.
• Product Delivery:Develop and execute a holistic finance transformation roadmap aligned with the overall strategy business objectives and financial targets including assessing current operations identifying pain points and defining target operating models.
• Financial System Implementation & Adoption:Oversee the selection implementation and integration of finance systems (ERP Oracle Workday) and drive the adoption of new technologies like AI and machine learning to improve financial capabilities.
• Process Optimization:Redesign and optimize finance processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness leveraging automation and industry best practices.
• Data Analytics & Reporting:Drive the use of data analytics to improve financial insights and reporting capabilities including implementing advanced analytics and predictive modeling.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Management:Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. Finance HR Technology Sales) to align product strategy with enterprise goals and manage expectations.
• Lead & Mentor Teams:Oversee and mentor a professional team of 60 members in the delivery of innovative FinTech solutions.
• Ensure Compliance & Risk Management:Maintain compliance with regulatory requirements (e.g. GAAP SEC) and mitigate risks through robust controls.
• Drive Innovation:Champion a culture of creative problem-solving and innovation within the finance function exploring and implementing new solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or masters degree in finance Technology Engineering or related majors is preferred.
• 12 to 15 years of finance and program/product management experience in a complex and large-scale financial organization
• Demonstrated experience with agile product planning issue resolution and negotiation.
• Possess project management skills including ability to develop project plans roadmaps and status reports with proficiency in project management software (Jira and Confluence a plus).
• This role requires deep product ownership expertise excellent leadership and influencing skills and strong business judgement.
• Excellent communication collaboration and problem-solving skills.
• Strong business acumen and proven track record of demonstrating the ability to deeply understand the needs of the business stakeholders and crafting the data and product strategy.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• In office and remote opportunities as well as our signature GEICO Flex program offering the ability to work remotely for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

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Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.

Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.