Senior Director - Corporate Finance

About the role

Responsible for independently and objectively analyzing, forecasting and internally reporting financial results for Northwestern Mutual and subsidiaries. Highly visible position that has interactions with executive officers, business leaders and finance leaders and requires strong business partnerships as analyses, insights and recommendations are presented, including negotiating with senior leaders across the business to influence decisions making.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the preparation key internal financial reports to influence and support financial and strategic decisions for the company.
• Applies broad industry and enterprise knowledge to drive financial performance, anticipating and identifying issues that may impact enterprise-wide results.
• Drives accountability by setting, monitoring and reporting targets/outcomes related to key performance indicators, which may include financial, operational, or other metrics aligned with the company's financial and strategic goals.
• Leads variance and attribution analysis regarding financial results to ensure proper understanding and to support data-driven decisions.
• Brings new approaches or techniques to improve team's financial analysis capabilities and to solve problems that have a broad impact on the business.
• Builds and mentors a high-performing team to ensure timely and successful completion of responsibilities and fosters a culture of innovation and accountability.
• What You'll Bring to the Role:
• Bachelors degree in accounting, actuarial science, finance, or other business required
• Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), or Masters of Business Administration (CPA) preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in positions with increasing actuarial and/or financial management responsibilities
• Exceptional people leadership capabilities to create an engaging work environment
• Intellectual agility, analytical and problem-solving abilities and well-developed presentation skills.
• Ability to develop rapport and maintain effective relationships throughout the Company and influence decision making without authority
• Strong business acumen with an ability to understand and synthesize company-wide results.
• Demonstrated ability to overcome obstacles and lead through change.
• Skills You Have:
• Attention to Detail: Focuses on specific details to spot and correct errors in advance of them being found and surpass quality expectations. Performs work with thorough proofreading for presentation, content, accuracy, and overall quality.
• Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of both general and organization-specific business issues/financial implications for the organization to problem solve.
• Cross Functional Partnering & Planning: Facilitates collaboration, communication, coordination, and planning with individuals and teams from different functions within the organization, and who have different areas of expertise, to achieve common goals.
• Storytelling through Data: Communicates insights and opportunities from a dataset, using narratives, visualizations, and analysis.
• Talent Development & Planning: Develops direct reports' skills based on organizational objectives, evaluates skill gaps, and manages succession planning to develop more capable direct reports, diverse, strong teams and better organizational performance in an equitable and inclusive manner.
• Compensation Range:
• Pay Range - Start:
• $126,000.00
• Pay Range - End:
• $234,000.00
• Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
• Structure 110:
• $138,600.00 USD - $257,400.00 USD
• Structure 115:
• $144,900.00 USD - $269,100.00 USD
• Grow your career with a best-in-class company that puts our clients' interests at the center of all we do. Get started now!
• Northwestern Mutual is an equal opport

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