Operations Senior Staff Engineer - Finance (Controls & Planning) Technologies (REMOTE)

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 (Controls and Planning) team as an Operations Senior Staff Engineer. You will be integral in driving teams of engineers with a deep focus on delivering enterprise-wide Finance products.  You will help drive our insurance business and finance 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 Operations Senior Staff 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 an Operations Senior Staff Engineer 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 Snr 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 systems to drive towards the right solution to support the department and GEICO’s current and future needs

• 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

• 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

• Understand how requirements and design choices may impact systems across multiple areas

• 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 

• Very strong program/project management skills with proven experience coordinating projects across multiple teams, with successful project/product del