About GEICO and the Role
GEICO, a leading insurance company, is seeking an experienced Finance Systems Senior Manager to join their team. As a key member of the organization, you will play a crucial role in managing the systems and teams supporting the Internal Audit, SOX, Internal Controls, and Real Estate departments. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your expertise in Finance, GRC, and Risk Systems to drive innovation and success at GEICO.
Job Summary
The Finance Systems Senior Manager will be responsible for managing a team of engineers and overseeing the development, implementation, and maintenance of systems supporting GRC and Real Estate functions. You will work closely with stakeholders to design and implement solutions that meet business needs, drive process improvements, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. This is a remote-based position, offering the flexibility to work from anywhere while being part of a dynamic and innovative team.
Key Responsibilities
- Leverage your deep Functional and Technical systems expertise to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs.
- Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.
- Lead and experienced group of Engineers by guiding, planning, and budgeting for their area, finalizing performance appraisals, submitting salary increases, and implementing disciplinary action when needed.
- Direct the activities of engineering teams in the establishment and implementation of new or revised systems and programs.
- Lead design sessions with peers to ensure systems are well designed, efficient, and meet Business expectations.
- Collaborate with the Finance Leaders to standardize on a GRC platform to track issues, centralize processes and documentation of controls, risks, and mitigation approaches associated to higher risk based functions and processes.
- Collaborate with Real Estate and Facilities Management leaders to support applications for Lease Accounting; facilities maintenance, and management of facilities and real estate projects.
- Have a deep understanding of these multi-entity department functions to establish a vision and technology roadmap for the Audit, Controls, and Real Estate departments.
- Provide resource plans, budget tracking and forecasting while managing the team to achieve target scope, schedule, and cost targets per plan.
- Work with Business Sponsors to develop project roadmaps which align to business objectives and sequenced by priority and resource availability.
- Identify and manage dependencies and impacts among projects across the portfolio. Manage issues escalated from related projects.
- Manage through influence customers and stakeholders, and properly manage divergent expectations.
- Ensure a strong control and governance framework is established and maintained to support SOX and Audit reviews.
- Facilitate Business and Technology discussions at various leadership levels to ensure alignment towards long term goals of Finance and Technology.
- Manage the team to ensure accuracy and integrity of data and applications through analysis, coding, clear documentation, and problem resolution.
- Work with the team to analyze and translate business and functional specifications and change requests into technical specifications.
- Work with the team to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions to support Business expectations.
- Share your passion for staying on top of tech/industry trends, experimenting with, and learning recent technologies, participating in internal and external technology communities, and mentoring other members of the engineering community.
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you will need to possess the following qualifications:
- 20+ years of Technology Systems experience.
- 15+ years of management or lead experience in guiding Technology teams.
- 5+ years at a Senior Manager or above level managing Technology teams.
- 2+ years working with a GRC or Risk related tools (e.g. Archer; Open Pages; Auditboard; Workiva; MetricStream; etc.).
- GRC/Risk domain expertise to be able to work with senior Finance leaders to interpret their process and functional needs into system solutions.
- Understanding of Accounting process; Controls; Security; and SOX to partner with senior Finance Leaders.
- Experience with developing systems that are scalable, resilient, and highly available.
- Understanding of monitoring concepts and tooling.
- Experience architecting and designing new systems.
- Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance.
- Solid understanding of project management techniques, methodologies, and best practices.
- Strong problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment.
- Knowledge and experience with the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication).
- Ability to prioritize workload and execute tasks independently, providing timely follow-up and resolution.
- Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented collaborative environment.
Education
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent education or work experience is required.
Compensation and Benefits
The annual salary for this position is $130,000.00 - $260,000.00, depending on experience and qualifications. Benefits include:
- 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity
GEICO is an equal employment opportunity employer and welcomes applications from diverse candidates. We are committed to creating a workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment, and where all employees feel valued and respected.
How to Apply
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