VP, Finance

Job Description

VP, Finance

Commercial Insurance (CI) is looking to hire a Vice President of Finance who can be a strategic thinker for our FP&A team. This critical role will help drive the strategy of the growing business and will be viewed as a key business partner by members of the CI leadership team.

This is a diverse accounting and finance leadership position within Chubb Commercial Insurance (CI), with responsibility for the planning, forecasting and reporting deliverables of the division. The successful candidate will partner with senior leaders across CI to drive results and ensure delivery of our business objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and finance leaders to produce weekly production forecasts and monthly P&L forecasts
• Lead the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and YTD production, KPI and P&L analysis
• Prepare quarterly results presentations and work with CI leadership to prepare them for meetings with executive management
• Partner with operations, IT and corporate finance to resolve process/system/data issues that are uncovered through results analysis
• Continue the development of increasingly granular metrics to drive better results in key business cohorts
• Lead the development of the strategic plan and annual plan, including coordinating changes to the production planning application and working with CI leadership to develop granular planning metrics that enable more effective management of the business
• Work with corporate finance to ensure timely submissions of deliverables, and respond to questions that arise in the consolidated review of results

Critical factors for success include:

• Comfort working directly with senior leaders on a day-to-day basis
• Ability to accomplish team objectives while also maintaining a detailed focus on individual tasks
• Ability to take ownership and meet deadlines
• Effectively building relationships and influencing others
• Identifying process/data issues and driving remediation
• Exhibiting a genuine willingness and desire to continuously build on insurance and product knowledge, and incorporating this into developing team members
• Desire to build new tools and create analytics that enable leaders to more effectively manage their businesses

Qualifications

• Experience leading and developing teams
• Demonstrated commitment to results and execution
• Ability to work effectively and independently with non-finance business leaders throughout the organization
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Expert knowledge of Excel and TM1
• Experience with business intelligence tools (Qliksense, Power BI, Tableau, etc.), including developing business requirements for new applications/application enhancements and partnering with developers to test and implement applications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Business with an Accounting/Finance major (preferred)
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience -with a large public company in an accounting or financial analysis role or large or Big 4 firm in an auditing role
• Understanding of insurance accounting and insurance concepts including reinsurance, loss pegging/reserving, deferred acquisition costs, premium audit, etc.

About Us

Chubb is a world leader in insurance. With operations in 54 countries, Chubb provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance, and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The company is distinguished by its extensive product and service offerings, broad distribution capabilities, exceptional financial strength, underwriting excellence, superior claims handling expertise and local operations globally.

At Chubb, we are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations pertaining to it. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, ancestry, mental and physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, age, and pregnancy or any other characteristic protected by law. Performance and qualifications are the only basis upon which we hire, assign, promote, compensate, develop and retain employees. Chubb prohibits all unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation against any individual who reports discrimination or harassment.