Senior Staff Operations Engineer - Finance Systems (FP&A) - REMOTE

GEICO is seeking a very experienced Product/Program Manager with a passion for managing complex programs across multiple departments and teams to join our Finance Systems team as a Senior Staff Operations Engineer. You will be integral in driving teams of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide products.  You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Our team thrives and succeeds in delivering high quality technology products and services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly.  As the Senior Staff Operations Engineer, 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 and strong Finance business knowledge while collaborating with a wide variety of stakeholders at different levels to ensure timely delivery of impactful projects. 

Position Responsibilities

As a Senior Staff Operations Engineer within the Finance Technologies (FP&A) area, you will: 

• Partner with the project sponsor, delivery team, and stakeholders to deliver a transformational solution for the FP&A function 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 how a new system or process will impact the FP&A function and any impacts to other 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

• Coordinate project activities across multiple systems, departments, and teams

• Leverage your knowledge of Finance systems to drive towards the right solutions to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs

• Engage in cross-functional collaboration throughout the entire software lifecycle

• Leverage your deep understanding of FP&A to drive solutions to meet business requirements

• Collaborate with vendors, product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems

• Partner with vendors to manage dependencies and timeliness and quality of deliverables

• Work with your leadership to address project dependencies, negotiate and estimate incremental delivery dates for milestones with the stakeholder community

• Identify and raise appropriate project risks, in addition to presenting detailed and implementable solutions or alternatives

• Report on progress of the program/project and other key metrics to align leadership and staff

• Present detailed and implementable ideas for areas to further improve or influence product or project delivery

• Perform process engineering through the review, refinement and improvement of existing processes and manage the improvements to completion without jeopardizing tactical delivery

• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans

• Facilitate agreement among all technical teams regarding technical solutions. Assure all system design issues are identified, tracked, and resolved on a timely basis

• Perform ad hoc research and analysis to ensure requirements are identified, tracked, and met

Qualifications 

• Prior Financial Services Industry experience is required, with a solid understanding of the functional and technical aspects of ERP applications

• Prior FP&A Systems implementation or support experience is strongly preferred (i.e. Hyperion; Oracle EPM Cloud; Anaplan; Board; Adaptive; etc)

• Strong program and project management skills with proven experience coo