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Director, Consolidated Expense Reporting & Budgeting
Reinsurance Group of America
Chesterfield, MO, United States
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Position Overview
This role is responsible for creating, managing, and overseeing the consolidation, analysis, and reporting of Budgets, Forecast, and Actuals expenses for RGA as well as coordinating the overall financial budgeting process.
Responsibilities
• Create processes to analyze financial data, draw conclusions and effectively articulate recommendations and results to senior leadership and business partners.
• Partner with other areas of finance and other areas of the company to create insightful financial analyses and presentations (standard and ad-hoc) to leadership, which contribute to their effectiveness and the oversight of RGA’s expense base.
• Monitor on a monthly basis risks and opportunities compared to forecast and budget and provide recommendations to manage risks and opportunities identified.
• Develop reporting processes, standard reports, and ad hoc financial analysis.
• Lead the overall financial budget process. This includes the Budget and Forecast cycles and requires cross-functional and cross-regional coordination in maintaining a process that supports submissions and reviews of expense budget with local and senior management as well as RGA’s Executive Council reviews.
• Leads and manages work area activities including, but not limited to, team/department workflow, establishing and monitoring quality goals, reviewing work completed by direct reports, ensuring quality accounting and financial reporting practices and communication to associates and management.
• Works with other functional areas in RGA to achieve efficient and effective accounting and reporting practices and procedures and responds to and requests from other functional areas on various inquires.
• Manage the process and produce the quarterly calculation for both short and long-term incentive plans.
• Maintains regular and predictable attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Required:
• 8+ years of experience in Financial Analytics and Report Development; 5+ years of management experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance and/or a related field
• Understanding of enterprise-wide Reporting platforms / tools
Preferred:
• Advanced Degree in Accounting, Business, and/or Finance
• CPA certification
• Insurance or reinsurance industry experience
SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
Required:
• Advanced Word Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Advanced knowledge of broad business practices
• Highly advanced people management skills, demonstrating the ability to lead, mentor, and develop associates; including the ability to delegate key areas of responsibility
• Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions
• Advanced oral and written communication skills, demonstrating the ability to convey business terminology that is meaningful and well received
• Advanced investigative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to work well within a team environment, participate in department/team projects and balance detail with departmental objectives
• Advanced ability to manage multiple projects and/or teams simultaneously
• Advanced ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional and technical disciplines
• Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
• Advanced skills in customer relationship management and change management
• Ability to resolve conflict and foster teamwork
• Broad business knowledge
• Advanced persuasion and negotiating skills when working with internal/external customers
• Ability to travel within North America up to 25% of the time.
Company Overview
Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA) is one of the largest global providers of life reinsurance, with offices around the world. RGA delivers expert solutions in individual life reinsurance, individual living benefits reinsurance, group reinsurance, financial solutions, facultative underwriting and product development. Our mission is to enhance our clients’ prosperity by supporting their financial and risk management capabilities.
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