AVP, Finance

Overview of Position

The AVP of Finance is a key leadership role responsible for driving financial strategy, operational excellence, and digital transformation.  This role partners closely with senior leadership leveraging automation, analytics, and innovative financial solutions to enhance profitability, optimize resources, and ensure strong financial governance.  The AVP will play a critical role in leading finance technology advancements, including process automation and analytics-driven decision-making.  financial analysis, planning, reporting, and budgeting processes, while collaborating across various function to provide insights and recommendations for business growth. 

This role will drive performance and cultivate talent, focusing on continuous improvement, talent assessment and development, while fostering additional financial analytics to support business growth.

What will be my duties and responsibilities in this job?

Business Performance & Strategy (60%)

• Partner with business leaders to drive financial performance and align financial strategies with business objectives.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Business Finance, Accounting, Operations, Capital & Investments etc.) to ensure alignment on assumptions to deliver short- and long-term business objectives

• Provide data-driven insights to leadership through advanced financial modeling and analytics to drive business decisions

• Develop and implement simplified, scalable solutions that drive financial efficiency, transparency and enable decision making

• Develop and identify the key metrics and leading indicators that drive business results to enhance understanding of business performance and improve forecasting

• Prepare and present insightful analysis to finance and business leaders in support of strategic objectives, leading to timely actions and value creation.

• Develop and recommend solutions in the event of deviations from intended value

• Lead the Enterprise Expense story, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of expense allocation, business trends, and financial implications. 

Technology & Process Automation (30%)

• Lead the deployment of process automation and other digital finance solutions to improve efficiency and accuracy.

• Identify opportunities to streamline financial operations, automate manual processes, and reduce complexity.

• Partner with IT, Data, and Finance teams to enhance financial reporting and analytics tools. 

• Champion the use of AI, predictive analytics, and machine learning to enhance forecasting and decision-making.

Leadership & Team Development (10%)

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of finance professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and professional development.

• Provide coaching, training, and performance management to ensure team success.

• Drive process improvements and implement financial systems to enhance reporting and analysis capabilities.

• Prepare and assist in presentations to senior leadership and the Board of Directors.

• Focus on leading and cultivating a high-performing support team, continuously attracting, developing, and retaining talent.

Number of Direct Reports - 0-3 with leadership of Analyst, Manager or Director

Financial Responsibility - Business decision support to ensure achievement of enterprise financial goals

What are the requirements needed for this position?

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.

• 10+ years of progressive finance experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership capacity.

• 5+ years of experience in deploying process automation, analytics, and digital finance solutions.

• Proven expertise in deploying process automation, AI-driven analytics, and digital finance solutions.

• Expertise in managing complex budgets exceeding $2B, ensuring financial alignment with business strategy and operational priorities. 

• Experience leading finance transformation initiatives, process simplification, and automation projects.

• Strong knowledge of financial planning, analysis, reporting, and risk management.

• Proven ability to partner with executive leadership, influence decisions, and drive financial strategy.

• Expertise in ERP systems, automation tools, and financial data visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

• Strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills, with a results-driven mindset.

What other skills/experience would be helpful to have?

• Visionary leader with a track record of financial innovation and technology adoption.

• Ability to simplify complex financial data into actionable insights for business leaders.

• Strong change management expertise, navigating teams through automation and process transformation.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-impact environment with evolving priorities.

• Advanced degree MBA and/or CPA preferred.

• Experience with Apptio would be a plus.

• Background & knowledge in insurance industry.

• Direct experience in partnering with a business to manage their P&L, and ensuring business growth and profitability.

• Experience leading teams and driving them to excel.

• Strong financial acumen, with the ability to leverage information through advance analytics to produce valuable business, market, and customer insights.

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Pay Range:

$119,600.00 - $199,800.00

Any posted pay range considers a wide range of compensation factors, including candidate background, experience and work location, while also allowing for salary growth within the position.

Expected application deadline is

05/02/2025

If date is blank then this is a pipeline requisition, and we will continue to collect applications on an ongoing basis.

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Company Overview
Assurant is a leading global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases. A Fortune 500 company with a presence in 21 countries, Assurant supports the advancement of the connected world by partnering with the world’s leading brands to develop innovative solutions and deliver an enhanced customer experience through mobile device solutions, extended service contracts, vehicle protection services, renters insurance, lender-placed insurance products, and other specialty products.

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