Sr. AVP, Corporate Finance and Expense Management

As a team member in the Finance department at Nationwide, the opportunities are endless! You can grow and learn in diverse areas across many disciplines such as Advanced Analytics, Investments, Actuarial, Accounting, Risk Management, Critical Business Advisor, Internal Audit, and so much more. Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

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Job Description Summary

Are you fascinated by the financial services business and committed to providing the most outstanding service in the industry? Has your professional experience prepared you to lead and contribute crucial work that delivers high quality service in collaboration with partners from multiple functions of the organization? If you are passionate about putting your strategic-level thinking to work in financial operations, we’d like to know more about you!

As Sr AVP, Corporate Finance and Expense Management, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the strategic direction of Nationwide's Corporate Finance spend across various staff functions, including Technology, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, and Customer, Strategy and Innovation. You will have end to end accountability in overseeing the preparation and alignment of a multi-year budget and expense plans of all corporate staff functions and create strong partnerships with business unit expense teams to align with Nationwide's strategic and operating plans. We’ll count on you to drive financial excellence across the organization.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Participates in the development of strategic plans and direction related to all corporate finance spend across corporate staff functions including Technology, Marketing, Human Resources, Finance, and Customer, Strategy and Innovation.    

• Oversees the preparation of the multi-year budget and expense plans to align with Nationwide Strategic and Operating Plans, and performance targets. Tracks Corporate staff spending compared to annual budgets, adjust spending as needed throughout the year, and analyze/report on expenses compared to budgets, forecasts, and prior periods. 

• Oversees the enterprise portfolio management process including the portfolio planning process for the enterprise, establishing enterprise policy for portfolio planning, developing business case best practices and conducting peer review/postmortems. 

• Responsible for developing standardized financial reporting across each portfolio, as well as run, on a pre-and-post allocated basis. 

• Provides oversight and leadership of planning and forecasting for corporate staff functions.  

• Develops detailed analysis to assist leadership’s understanding of the bottom-line results. Maintains responsibility for the development of the annual operating plan. 

• Responsible for the review and management of financial performance and viability of corporate staff functions including decision support modeling for labor and non-labor decisions.   

• Serves as primary contact for all operational and financial audits. 

• Oversees and leads associate management including performance management, talent management, engagement, salary planning and administration, development, and talent acquisition. 

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.  

Reporting Relationships: Reports to SVP.  Leads a team of four or more direct reports and approximately fifty indirect reports.    

Typical Skills and Experiences:  
 
Education: Undergraduate degree in finance or accounting preferred.  Graduate degree desired. 

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