Snr TPM - Finance Data

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.

Job Description:  Senior Staff Engineer, Operations (Finance Technologies, Planning & Controls)

External Posting Title:  Senior Technical Program Manager – Finance Data

GEICO is seeking a very experienced Program Manager with a passion for managing complex programs across multiple departments and teams to join our Finance Technologies (Planning & Controls) team as a Senior Technical Program Manager. You will be integral in driving teams of engineers to implement a Finance Data Warehouse / Lake that will become the hub and store for GEICO’s Finance Data. 

As the Senior Technical Program Manager, you will be responsible for planning, prioritizing, and leading implementations within the Finance Technology domain.  The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in applying project management skills, have strong Finance business knowledge to collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders, and awareness of a Finance Warehouse / Lake. 

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Technical Program Manager within the Finance Technologies area, you will: 

• Partner with the project sponsor, delivery team, and stakeholders to deliver quality solutions on time and within budget
• Create, maintain, and actively manage a detailed project schedule, change control process, and documentation
• Work with your Senior Director to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community, and deliver projects on time 
• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives 
• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas 
• Report on your team’s progress for project and other key metrics, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery 
• Leverage your knowledge of operational and LEAN practices/principles to streamline organizational and team processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness
• Prior Financial Services Industry experience is required, with a solid understanding of the functional and technical aspects of ERP applications
• Coordinate project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams. 
• Leverage your knowledge of Finance Warehouses/Marts/Lake to support the build out of GEICO’s Finance Data Warehouse to be the hub and store of Finance Data
• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle.
• Leverage experience with various ERPs (e.g. PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; Workday; or SAP) to enhance existing applications or build new ones to support GEICO’s Finance organization
• Leverage your deep understanding of Finance, Accounting, and Management Reporting to drive solutions to meet business requirements
• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

Qualifications 

• Very strong program/project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project delivery at scale
• Deep Finance domain expertise to be able to interpret Finance requirements into system solutions
• Strong understanding of Accounting process; Management reporting philosophies; and cross-finance practices to ensure data, integrations, and solutions are well designed
• Detail and deadline oriented with effective organizational and analytic skills
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, and analytical skills
• Experience or certification in LEAN principles and practices is an asset
• Outstanding time management skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including the ability to clearly document findings, proposals, issues, and status
• Ability to communicate and work directly with business leaders across Technology and Finance
• Experience in building out a Finance Data Warehouse is highly preferred
• Effective leadership qualities, ability to influence without direct management authority
• Experience managing conflict to achieve project goals
• Must be able to work both independently and in a team environment
• Proven ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Awareness of ADO is preferable

Experience 

• 12+ years of experience in managing large-scale Finance Systems projects
• PMI/PMP or Scrum certified
• Excellent understanding of Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• 10+ years in working with industry leading ERP solutions (e.g. PeopleSoft; Oracle EBS; Oracle Cloud; Hyperion; Workday; or SAP)
• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Project Management, or equivalent

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field; or equivalent experience

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Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• 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.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.