Hybrid Senior Director, Financial Systems

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Director, Financial Systems
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $195,000 - $315,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chevy Chase, United States

About the role

• Senior Director of Financial Systems at GEICO focusing on automation and modernizing financial testing processes. Collaborating with teams to enhance efficiency and reliability in financial systems.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Director of Financial Systems is responsible for leading and modernizing testing efforts for the organization's front-end systems and managing a team of testing analysts.
• The testing team ensures that all transactions initiated through these systems are tracked and monitored as they move downstream through various processes, maintaining the integrity of transactional workflows.
• This role is focused on increasing the speed of testing efforts through AI and automation while maintaining accuracy and quality, and will be required to oversee selection, implementation, and integration of such tools to improve capabilities.
• Strong analytical skills and a comprehensive understanding of financial systems processes are essential, along with effective communication abilities for reporting findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure escalation protocols are in place for addressing and remediation of issues that may affect transaction accuracy or timeliness.
• Code deployment and compliance monitoring: Responsible for identifying code moved into lower environments or Production that could impact front end or downstream processes. Requires monitoring of compliance with internal controls and regulatory requirements to ensure all processes adhere to established standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in technology, engineering, or related majors is preferred
• 12+ years of finance and program/product management experience in a complex and large-scale financial organization
• Strong business acumen and proven track record of being able to understand needs of the business stakeholders and crafting and executing strategy to meet those requirements
• Demonstrated experience with testing automation, agile product planning, issue resolution
• Project management skills, including ability to develop project plans, roadmaps, and status reports
• Deep product ownership expertise, excellent leadership and influencing skills and strong business judgement.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s 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.
• Employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.