Senior Manager, Specialty Finance

Role Purpose

The Senior Manager, Specialty Finance serves as a strategic finance partner to Commercial Product leadership, translating financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights that support revenue growth, as well as loss and expense management. This role sits at the intersection of Finance and Product, with a primary focus on growth performance drivers, loss analytics, and forward-looking projection support.

Key Responsibilities

• Own financial analysis and decision support for the Specialty Finance organization: Revenue trends – sales, retention, average premium
  Loss cost, severity, and frequency trends
  General expense and operational cost dynamics
  Plan and forecast – model capabilities and initiative outlook

• Partner Closely With Product Leaders To Evaluate performance drivers and emerging trends
  Quantify trade-offs between rate and non-rate impacts to profitable growth
  Support data-backed decisions related to operational changes

• Analytics & Insight Generation
  Develop And Maintain Product-focused Analytics, Including Retention elasticity insights
  Loss cost and expense outlooks
  Pure premium trend analysis
  Sensitivity analyses and scenario testing
  Move beyond reporting to deliver insight-led storytelling that connects financial outcomes to operations and decision levers
  Design and operationalize new analytical tools and models to support decision-making at scale
  Identify opportunities to improve analytical frameworks, data usability, and insight timeliness across Finance and Product

• Senior Leader & Stakeholder Partnership
  Serve As a Trusted Thought Partner To Finance and Product senior leadership
  Cross-functional with other finance partners (e.g., Distribution, Claims, Reserving, Pricing Analytics)
  Support financial and business readouts by distilling complex analyses into clear, decision-ready narratives
  Anticipate questions and proactively surface risks and opportunities related to top and bottom line performance

• Process Improvement & Capability Building
  Enhance consistency and rigor across finance’s commercial analytics through: Standardized metrics, templates, and decision frameworks
  Improved documentation and repeatability of analyses
  Contribute to the evolution of FP&A toward a high-impact advisory, forward-looking model
  Collaborate with peers to share best practices and elevate analytics maturity across the Specialty CFO organization

• People Leadership & Development
  Lead, mentor, and develop team members within Specialty CFO organization
  Set clear expectations around analytical quality, business partnership, and ownership
  Build bench strength by coaching team members toward broader understanding of the business, economics, and trade-offs between decisions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field (MBA and/or CPA preferred).
• 5+ years in FP&A, Finance, Accounting, and the insurance industry, including work with financial forecasting, data modeling or data science.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, VBA). Skillset in PowerBI and/or SQL preferred, but not required.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong business acumen and proven track record demonstrating ability to deeply understand the needs of the business stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to justify assumptions and develop business cases.
• Agility to manage changing expectations and priorities.
• Previous experience as a people leader preferred.

Location

This position is a hybrid role. It is required to be on-site 3 days per week, at one of the following office locations: Chicago, IL Bethesda, MD

Annual Salary

$130,175.00 - $212,175.00

The GEICO Pledge

Great Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

EEO Statement

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled. GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.