Strategic Finance and Analytics Lead

Capgemini is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Lead Cx Journey Owner for a top 10 US Insurance Carrier.

Our Client is one of the United States’ largest insurers, providing a wide range of insurance and financial services products with gross written premiums well over US$25 Billion (P&C). They proudly serve more than 10 million U.S. households with more than 19 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 18,500 employees. Finally, our Client is part of one the largest Insurance Groups in the world.

Position Objective:

The Strategic Finance & Analytics Lead will lead data, analytics, and finance for critical enterprise-wide initiatives. This includes leading cross-functional teams for (1) analytics & reporting, (2) data requirements, and (3) financial modeling.

Responsibilities:

(1) Analytics & Reporting:

• Creates objectives & key results (OKRs), analyzes results/drivers, and holds the business accountable
• Identifies insights needed to support project needs and business decisions
• Prioritizes analytics requests received from various stakeholders and ensures clear accountability within a cross-functional analytics team
• Partners with cross-functional analysts to synthesize insights and data from across the company into a contextualized view that provides clear, compelling recommendations that drive business impact
• Accountable for packaging insights into strong narratives for senior leaders across the company including c-level executives and agents

(2) Data Requirements:

• Facilitates workshops with a cross-functional working group to identify holistic data and reporting requirements for finance, analytics, data science, finance, and operations
• Ensures connectivity between business and data requirements
• Prioritizes requirements received from various stakeholders
• Balances when to leverage tactical, short-term solutions vs strategic, long-term solutions
• Supports Data Product Manager and Data Product Owners in feature / user story facilitation and creation
• Supports Release Train Engineer (RTE) and IT leads for requirement solutions and delivery
• Coordinates directly with internal and external stakeholders to demo prototypes and completed products
• Facilitates cross-functional coordination and change management

(3) Financial Modeling:

• Evaluate initiatives from across the company and quickly assess their financial viability through rapid and accurate opportunity sizing
• Build detailed business cases for complex projects including assessments across multiple entities (management company, exchange, and agents)
• Track and communicate benefit realization against business case/targets 

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English, required
• Bachelors degree in mathematical, statistical or business/financial field, required
• 5 or more years of experience in data, analytics, data science, or finance, required (experience in insurance preferred)
• Proficient in the use of data visualization tools for presenting insights, required
• Strong knowledge of SQL or other querying language, required
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office products such as Excel and PowerPoint, required
• Strong leadership skills to effectively lead and influence cross-functional project teams, required
• Experience in organizing and managing multiple teams and departments, required
• Works well with ambiguity and thrives in a fast paced environment, required
• Experience in planning and leading strategic initiatives required
• Nimble business mindset with a focus on creative solutions, required
• Proactive and great at communicating with different audiences, required

Other Critical Skills

Financial Modeling - Advanced
Data Analysis - Advanced
Data Visualization - Advanced
Project Management - Advanced
Data Requirements - Advanced
Strategic Thinking - Advanced
Communication & Presentation - Advanced

Software / Tool Skills

Excel - Advanced (7+ Years)
Office Suite - Advanced (7+ Years)
SQL - Intermediate (4-6 Years)
Power BI - Intermediate (4-6 Years)

Benefits

This position comes with competitive compensation and benefits package:

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
2. Comprehensive benefits package
3. Career development and training opportunities
4. Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)
5. Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally reknowned group
6. Private Health Insurance
7. Pension Plan
8. Paid Time Off
9. Training & Development

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group €22.5 billion in revenues in 2023.

https://www.capgemini.com/us-en/about-us/who-we-are/