Senior Director, Financial Systems

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. That’s 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 States. In 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. That’s 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 around testing, including driving automation and increasing speed of execution to enable the organization to deliver new products and services faster. This leader will work closely with internal stakeholders and end-users to help design the future of automated testing of systems, embrace emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and cloud-based platforms to create efficiencies, 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 offices in Chicago, IL;
New York, NY, or Chevy Chase, MD.

Key Responsibilities

• Transaction monitoring: Lead efforts to convert transaction monitoring from initiation in front-end systems to their accurate completion downstream from manual reviews to systematically generated exception-based reviews and validations. Determine the best sustainable approach to correcting issues originating from the front end that affect downstream processes.
• Process optimization: Drives process improvements, optimize workflows, and enhance reporting reliability. Responsibilities include implementing new tools and facilitating training initiatives to keep the analyst team up to date with best practices.
• Leadership: Direct daily activities of the analyst team, providing guidance, and ensuring adherence to established testing protocols. Leading efforts to automate for more efficient processing while maintaining integrity of the testing process, ensuring that results are documented, and meeting SLAs for reviewing data fixes, remediations, POCs, etc. Champion a culture of creative problem-solving and innovation within the finance function, exploring and implementing new solutions.
• Stakeholder collaboration & management: Actively participating in leadership discussions to advocate for the team’s priorities and ensure requirements are factored in planning for strategic initiatives. Engaging with peers across the organization to foster a collaborative environment that promotes knowledge sharing and collective problem-solving, enhancing alignment with broader company objectives. Partner with Product and Tech to ensure that systems requirements, new development, and ongoing maintenance are completed in a timely manner, meeting the needs of both the Finance Team and CFO Team.
  
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