Division Finance Officer – Commercial Lines

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a member of the COG Commercial Team and the COG Finance Team, the Division Finance Officer is responsible for overseeing the financial management and success of the commercial lines business, ensuring compliance with the company's policies and procedures, and providing strategic financial guidance and analytic tools to the divisional leadership team and the overall finance function.

Key Competencies:


* Strong financial management and analytic skills - ideally with experienced financial experience across Commercial lines


* Strategic thinking and leadership abilities - managing stakeholders across multiple countries, product lines and executive levels.

Comfortable working in a matrix environment


* Mature business partnering and influencing skills - ability to find a balance between business and financial stakeholders


* Strong executive communication and written skills - crisp executive level narrative and insightful commentary on all deliverables


* Relentless curiosity across all financial and strategic initiatives within Commercial Lines

Responsibilities



* Business Partnering: Day to day active business partnering across all product line leaders for Commercial lines, including both business and finance leaders.

Communicate financial information and analysis to the divisional leadership team, as well as COG FP&A and COG CFO, including presenting financial reports, analysis and recommendations for future performance KPI trending


* Financial Strategy: Work with the divisional leadership team to develop and implement business strategies that align with the company's financial goals.

Lead on business cases for new Commercial distribution deals and growth strategies, ensuring stakeholder management to deliver structured & timely sign-off an approval process as required


* Financial Planning and Analysis: Drive and lead on all Commercial Lines financial planning and analysis activities, including annual budget, quarterly forecasts, and monthly and quarterly performance.

Prepare insightful, timely, executive level FP&A deliverables to the business leaders and COG Finance in line with the corporate FP&A calendar.

Identify material variances on KPIs and provide insightful analytics, recommending adjustments and corrective actions as needed


* Financial Analytic Tools: Design, implement and deliver analytical tools that provide timely insights and trend analysis on business performance across all P&L categories, inclusive of premium roll forwards, acquisition cost bridging, and key expense analytics, and across all cohorts of commercial business, inclusive of segment and industry.


* Financial Compliance: Strong business partnering with COG Head of FP&A, COG Controllership and COG Actuarial teams to ensure compliance of the division, regional and local Commercial operations with local and US GAAP policies, as well as company policies and procedures


* Leadership: Manage and develop ...