Senior Manager Finance Transformation

Job Family

Corporate Development, Strategy and Sustainability

About Us

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.
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Who We Are

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States.

Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services.

What We Do

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development;
Finance;
Internal Audit;
Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology).

Job Description Summary

Provide leadership, direction, execution of strategic objectives while partnering with business, technology, and project teams. Align focus and drive efforts and objectives to the higher organizational strategy while implementing and applying best practice processes and procedures. Responsible for leading and developing staff.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Provide direct management activities and guidance for end-to-end platform, capability or strategic initiatives that will include some to all the following:
  Project leadership, strategic planning, execution, and evaluation of results.
• Communicate goals based on organizational objectives tied to strategic vision; assist staff in setting goals and developing performance measures.
• Research and collaborate with key stakeholders to develop innovative and transformational solutions. Guide teams to overcome obstacles and explore the best possible solutions from various stakeholder and/or system perspectives.
• Act as a change agent and strive to build unity across business groups.
• Partner with existing individuals and teams throughout the organization to create a cohesive network of working groups comprised of subject matter experts and stakeholders who are focused on positive outcomes and relationships for the entire organization.
• Translate business needs into system requirements documentation and explain to the end user in an easy to understand way.
• Recommend improvements across all aspects of operating model - re-design of organizational structure, process efficiencies and technology enhancements.
• Identify weaknesses, gaps and opportunities for improvement and report findings in a simple, compelling way.
• Provide opportunities for knowledge transfer through training and development of others in areas such as operational excellence and productivity improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or related field
• Ten years of broad general business experience and knowledge across many disciplines including:
  Business Process Analysis, Business Analyst, Benchmarking Performance, Project,…