Director of FP&A for Program Business - $180,000 - $215,000

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(Philadelphia, PA) Client is a $5BB+ Insurance/Reinsurance carrier that writes a diverse mix of P&C and specialty lines business. Client is part of an insurance carrier that dates back over 100 years, has a global footprint in over 40 countries and has close to 10,000 employees. The group itself is one of the top 25 insurers and reinsurers in the world. The client has been acquisitive over the years and is in a post-acquisition integration and growth stage. The work environment is collaborative. The client’s most successful executives, managers and associates have the ability to work in a mid-sized environment and have a desire to be impactful in their roles. There is good career relationship development since associates are surrounded by respected players in the insurance space. 

Client seeks an AVP (Director Level) of FP&A for the Client’s Program Business. This role is open due to the Client’s desire to continue to build synergy between the business units and finance by embedding strong finance professionals in the business unit. The scope of this role is to provide quality business insight to the Executive Team in order for the team to make solid, forward looking, business decisions based on real time operating metrics/scorecard data. 

Compensation is open but gravitating to the $150,000 - $165,000 range on the fixed plus a bonus on top of this. All in, the role is expected to be in the $180,000 - $215,000 range.  

12+ years of finance and reporting experience backed up with at least 3 years of Program Insurance experience and/or property lines/specialty lines support experience. CPA, CMA, CFA, MBA ideal. A fuller job description is below:

Scope:

Develop and deliver financial reports by translating hard numbers into factual information using internal reporting, collaborating with team members, evaluating complex financial issues and recommending solutions to guide future organizational decisions and ensure alignment with business objectives.

Responsibilities:

Analysis & Modeling

Works closely with product and business leaders to support development and preparation of long-term financial models, including GWP and expense forecasting models to improve business planning, and other analysis to drive new initiatives

Provides analysis of recent performance and trends including monitoring and development of relevant KPIs, to measure and monitor returns

Leads and participates in cross-functional initiatives to ensure alignment across the business and create strong partnerships with business leaders in these functional groups to provide advice regarding financial implications of business activities and make recommendations to strategically enhance financial performance

Identifies and implements FP&A initiatives that simplify and scale the business.

Organize and manipulate quantitative data to identify and explain trends, problems, and root causes.

Provides a framework to support new product and/or strategic initiatives evaluation

Planning & Forecasting

Participates and assists the VP of FP&A in the development of the annual and long range plans, including participation in the design of the annual planning framework, helping to lead the business and financial plan development, strengthen the business forecasting, reviewing and participating in setting company objectives and action items for revenues and expenses

Assists with any M&A activities, including modeling and due diligence

Serves as business partner and contributor to growth and remediation strategies

Identify information gaps and bridge those gaps through process design, and re-engineering as it relates to reporting and forecasting.

Management Reporting

Support the development of the management reporting framework to support the growth of the division and its strategic and operational segments, including the design of new reports to provide innovative information to manage the business more effectively

Develops and maintains financials models with sensitivity analyses around internal and external factors ensure they support overall business objectives

Work with senior management, financial leadership, product leaders, and business units to assess, identify, and prioritize performance reporting needs including key metrics.

Other Duties and Responsibilities

Prepare executive level presentations and communications with logical reasoning and data support.

Prepare reports and analysis on an ad hoc basis.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.