Sr. Finance Operations Manager

Founded in 1985, SelectQuote (NYSE: SLQT) provides solutions that help consumers protect their most valuable assets: their families, health and property. The company pioneered the model of providing unbiased comparisons from multiple, highly rated insurance companies allowing consumers to choose the policy and terms that best meet their unique needs. Two foundational pillars underpin SelectQuote’s success: a strong force of highly trained and skilled agents, who provide consultative needs analysis for every consumer, and proprietary technology that sources and routes high quality leads. The company has three core business lines: SelectQuote Senior, SelectQuote Life and SelectQuote Auto and Home. SelectQuote Senior, the largest and fastest-growing business, serves the needs of a demographic that sees 10,000 people turn 65 each day with a range of Medicare Advantage and Medicare Supplement plans.

Job Summary

The Sr. Finance Operations manager will work closely with finance leadership to understand organization challenges and use their technical and business experience to build systems and processes to overcome those challenges. This role will also be responsible for assessing and recommending third party solutions that will help the finance organization achieve its strategic objectives. This is a high profile role with exposure to the highest levels of finance leadership

Essential Functions

• Independently develop and implement new finance technologies for a broad finance user group: enhance and provide new technology solutions that help automate/optimize processes and improve the analytic capabilities across all finance, accounting, treasury, and tax functions; test and perform quality assurance on new processes and applications; provide training and support for new and existing processes and tools
• Manage and maintain proprietary finance technologies, ensuring the system accurately represents accounting general ledger data; supports all internal/external reporting and reconciliation requirements; adequate controls (including security and back-ups); operates in a stable and efficient manner and self-sufficiently mitigates issues as needed
• Own key reporting & planning processes; perform routine month-end close functions, some of which include: data versioning, mapping table maintenance, reconciliation, and report creation/review; during planning cycles, create and capture planning scenarios, create planning templates/ reports, serves as the escalation point for user support and trouble-shoot problems
• Collaborate with non-Finance business units such as Sales, Marketing, Human Resources to identify process improvement opportunities; work with stakeholders to develop processes and systems to convert these process improvement opportunities into process improvement realities
• Take ownership of complex projects and executes to completion

Training and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required
• 10+ years of experience working in finance / accounting or supporting finance / accounting in a technical role required
• Experience working with general ledger / ERP systems required
• Experience working with integrating data from disparate sources required
• Experience working with data warehouses required
• High level knowledge of GAAP principles desired
• Experience working with senior executives required

Benefits:

It’s an exciting time to join SelectQuote. We became a publicly traded company in 2020 with the first 100% virtual IPO (non-biotech) in American history. We have also been recognized nationally on the 2021 Top Workplaces USA list and by the Kansas City Business Journal as a 2020 Best Places to Work honoree.

Full-time employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, voluntary short-term disability, company-paid long term disability, company-paid life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D), 401(k) + company match and 100% vesting after 4 years, discretionary profit sharing, employee stock purchase program (espp), paid time off, floating holidays, paid maternity leave, paid parental bonding leave, tuition reimbursement, jury duty pay, and other paid leaves vary based on work location.