Senior Director, Financial Systems

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

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The Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) is a private American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and is the third largest auto insurer in the United States. In 2024, GEICO earned premiums worth over $43 billion U.S. dollars.

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

GEICO is in the midst of an exciting transformation as a product and tech powered company. We are recruiting a Product Leader to champion and execute the strategic vision around testing, including driving automation and increasing speed of execution to enable the organization to deliver new products and services faster. This leader will work closely with internal stakeholders and end-users to help design the future of automated testing of systems, embrace emerging technologies like AI, machine learning, and cloud-based platforms to create efficiencies, and deliver exceptional experiences. Reporting directly to the Head of Financial Systems, this leader will work closely with partners in finance, business, engineering, product, and design to realize the vision for the CFO organization.

Location: This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum, on-site presence of 3 days per week at our offices in Chicago, IL; New York, NY, or Chevy Chase, MD.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Director of Financial Systems is responsible for leading and modernizing testing efforts for the organization's front-end systems and managing a team of testing analysts. The testing team ensures that all transactions initiated through these systems are tracked and monitored as they move downstream through various processes, maintaining the integrity of transactional workflows. This role is focused on increasing the speed of testing efforts through AI and automation while maintaining accuracy and quality, and will be required to oversee selection, implementation, and integration of such tools to improve capabilities.

Strong analytical skills and a comprehensive understanding of financial systems processes are essential, along with effective communication abilities for reporting findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Transaction monitoring: Lead efforts to convert transaction monitoring from initiation in front-end systems to their accurate completion downstream from manual reviews to systematically generated exception-based reviews and validations. Determine the best sustainable approach to correcting issues originating from the front end that affect downstream processes.
• Process optimization: Drives process improvements, optimize workflows, and enhance reporting reliability. Responsibilities include implementing new tools and facilitating training initiatives to keep the analyst team up to date with best practices.

• Leadership: Direct daily activities of the analyst team, providing guidance, and ensuring adherence to established testing protocols. Leading efforts to automate for more efficient processing while maintaining integrity of the testing process, ensuring that results are documented, and meeting SLAs for reviewing data fixes, remediations, POCs, etc. Champion a culture of creative problem-solving and innovation within the finance function, exploring and implementing new solutions.
• Stakeholder collaboration & management: Actively participating in leadership discussions to advocate for the team’s priorities and ensure requirements are factored in planning for strategic initiatives. Engaging with peers across the organization to foster a collaborative environment that promotes knowledge sharing and collective problem-solving, enhancing alignment with broader company object