Vice President - Finance

Vice President
- Finance# Careers## Vice President
- Finance Apply:
On-Site:
Des Moines
- Corporate Office:
Full time:
Posted Today:
End Date:
November 27, 2026 (30+ days left to apply):
R6600
** At EMC, we’re all about working together to make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and gain experience that matters. We strive to be caring leaders, close partners, and responsive experts—always supporting each other to do our best work. Join us, and let’s improve lives together.
** EMC Insurance is seeking a
** Vice President – Finance
** to help shape our financial future through strategic insight, strong stewardship, and forward-looking leadership. As a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team, you’ll translate complex financial information into actionable insights while leading accounting, financial reporting, tax, treasury, financial planning and analysis, and finance systems. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise decisions, develop talent, and advance finance capabilities that strengthen EMC’s financial resilience and long-term performance.

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* Essential Functions:

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* * Ensures timely, accurate, and compliant financial statements, regulatory filings, disclosures, and management reporting in accordance with statutory accounting principles and applicable requirements.
* Provides executive leadership and board committees with clear analysis of financial results, trends, risks, unusual items, and corrective actions.
* Directs regulatory and external audit relationships, coordinates audits, and ensures timely remediation of findings.
* Establishes and continuously improves the enterprise financial control framework, including Model Audit Rule compliance, fraud-risk awareness, documented policies and procedures, and audit readiness.
* Leads enterprise budgeting, forecasting, and multiyear financial planning aligned with corporate strategy and measurable goals.
* Oversees financial modeling and analysis of business performance, strategic initiatives, investments, and emerging risks and opportunities.
* Strengthens decision-making and forecast accuracy through performance dashboards, KPI governance, and actionable variance analysis.
* Partners across the organization to integrate operating, loss, investment income, surplus, staffing, and expense assumptions into enterprise financial plans.
* Communicates outlooks and tradeoffs to executive leadership and establishes policies, targets, and accountability measures that promote operating effectiveness and financial discipline.
* Develops and implements a talent strategy. Effectively develops and grows internal talent—a priority in EMC’s culture.
* Advances EMC’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals. Fosters an innovative culture, including supporting new ideas and providing guidance on potential changes.
* Leads treasury, cash management, liquidity planning, and banking relationships to maintain sufficient liquidity under normal and stressed conditions.
* Oversees cash flow, funding needs, credit facilities, counter party exposure, and banking services.
* Recommends changes that strengthen control, resilience, service, or cost effectiveness and supports enterprise decisions involving capital, surplus, and financial risk.
* Leads a multi-year finance technology and transformation roadmap aligned with corporate priorities.
* Partners with business and technology leaders to prioritize finance capabilities, system enhancements, and automation.
* Sponsors process standardization and improvements that strengthen controls, increase scalability, reduce manual effort, and improve financial information.
* Monitors adoption and business outcomes to ensure technology investments deliver intended value.
* Oversees…