Lead Specialist, Business Analysis

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Financial Accounting & Reporting

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Responsible for partnering with leaders in bringing clarity through reporting progress in achievement of strategic objectives primarily through the development and routine monitoring of key performance indicators. This role will be part of the Finance Transformation organization and involves enabling Oracle Cloud Financials solutions to support business objectives. This role requires both financial process expertise as well as Oracle ERP technology experience.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Enabling finance solutions within Oracle Cloud Financials ERP platform (ERP, EPM and FAH)

• Lead process redesign efforts and demonstrate how Oracle ERP can help the business solve problems and meet their key business objectives.

• Mentor and guide other junior team members in use of Oracle Financials ERP, best practices, configuration, etc.

• Partnering with leaders on the design and implementation of key performance indicators to appropriately measure progress of execution of strategic objectives and to support management decision making

• Collaborating with leaders and management reporting team to develop effective and accurate routine reporting of key performance indicators, including setting clear definitions to ensure clarity of results

• Drive and deliver upon continuous improvement of quarterly and annual reporting

• Analyze actual results of key performance indicators relative to expected trends and gain understanding of drivers of change; influencing management actions based on completed analysis

• Develop effective communication of progress of key performance indicators for Americas Executive Committee, including overview of macro environment, regulatory and competitive updates, and business developments

• Provide insight and effective communication of Americas progress on key performance indicators for use with the Management Board and Supervisory Board

• Partners with management on development of external communication and presentation of Americas’ execution of strategy and financial results

• Acts as the key business control point of contact with Group Business Control team members

• Partners with senior management to meet business goals.

• Develops strong business relationships with all levels of management

• Creates effective communication of complex messages to a variety of audiences - ability to operate at strategic and operational levels

Qualifications:

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