Senior Staff - Engineering Operations - Finance Systems

October 10

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10,000+

Description

• Partner with the project sponsor, delivery team, and stakeholders to deliver a transformational solution for the FP&A function on time and within budget • Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation • Work with your Senior Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time • Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives • Understand how requirements and design choices may impact how a new system or process will impact the FP&A function and any impacts to other systems across multiple areas • Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery • Leverage your knowledge of operational and LEAN practices/principles to streamline organizational and team processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness • Coordinate project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams • Leverage your knowledge of Finance systems to drive towards the right solutions to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs • Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle • Leverage your deep understanding of FP&A to drive solutions to meet business requirements • Collaborate with vendors, product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems • Partner with vendors to manage dependencies and timeliness and quality of deliverables • Work with your leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community • Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives • Report on progress of the program/project and other key metrics to align leadership and staff • Present detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery • Perform process engineering through the review, refinement and improvement of existing processes and manage the improvements to completion without jeopardizing tactical delivery • Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams • Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans • Facilitate agreement among all technical teams regarding technical solutions. Assure all system design issues are identified, tracked, and resolved on a timely basis • Perform ad hoc research and analysis to ensure requirements are identified, tracked, and met

Requirements

• Prior Financial Services Industry experience is required, with a solid understanding of the functional and technical aspects of ERP applications • Prior FP&A Systems implementation or support experience is strongly preferred (i.e. Hyperion; Oracle EPM Cloud; Anaplan; Board; Adaptive; etc) • Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product delivery at scale • Deep Financial Planning and Analysis domain expertise to be able to interpret requirements into system solutions • Strong understanding of Accounting process; Management reporting philosophies; Profitability Analysis; and cross-finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed • Experience or certification in LEAN principles and practices • Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills • Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills • Strong experience of using ADO is recommended • Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail • Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status • Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance • Experience with continuous delivery • Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches • Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment • Self-motivated and able to work independently while coordinating activities with cross-divisional teams • Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority • Experience managing conflict to achieve project goals • Transparency with management and stakeholders • Proven ability to multi-task is a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period** • Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave • 401(k) Plan • Tuition Reimbursement • Paid Training and Licensures