Kemper

Director – Financial Operations

Kemper

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Birmingham • Alabama, Montana, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $131,900 - $208,800 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Refine, devise, and implement scalable processes and standards to ensure a positive customer experience, a controlled operating environment, and internal efficiency.
  • Proactively discover inefficiencies in workstreams and process flows and find ways to improve.
  • Understand the team’s key metrics and KPIs, and advance initiatives that ultimately support these objectives.
  • Provide input and advice as a subject matter expert across several topics including payment processing methods.
  • Help operational teams with the analysis of incidents, implementations of workarounds, formulate solutions to mitigate risks.
  • Ensure that all processes and procedures are compliant with various accounting and regulatory requirements.
  • Identify and communicate the impacts of regulatory changes or market practices with support of compliance department stakeholders.
  • Administrator for the Corporate Credit Card program, Travel & Expense Policy, and Expense Reimbursement processes.
  • Manage external vendor relationships, as necessary.

Requirements

  • At least 10 -12 years of experience in Accounting and/or Finance.
  • Candidates should be able to clearly articulate key business objectives, and primary metric measures for financial products and services.
  • Strong analytics, strategic thinking and consumer empathy a must.
  • Strong background in managing teams.
  • Hands-on/team-player attitude toward tackling tactical as well as strategic work.
  • Proven teamwork skills to help deliver on-time product and project results.
  • Excellent written, oral, and presentation skills.
  • Experience with Workday Finance is a plus.
  • BA/BS in business, management or related field required.
  • MBA is a plus.
Benefits
  • Qualify for your choice of health and dental plans within your first month.
  • Save for your future with robust 401(k) match, Health Spending Accounts and various retirement plans.
  • Learn and Grow with our Tuition Assistance Program, paid certifications and continuing education programs.
  • Contribute to your community through United Way and volunteer programs.
  • Balance your life with generous paid time off and business casual dress.
  • Get employee discounts for shopping, dining and travel through Kemper Perks.

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Hard skills
accountingfinanceanalyticsstrategic thinkingpayment processingrisk mitigationcompliancevendor managementKPI analysisprocess improvement
Soft skills
team managementcommunicationconsumer empathyproblem-solvingcollaborationpresentation skillstactical thinkingstrategic workarticulation of business objectivesteamwork
Certifications
BA/BS in businessMBA