Director, Capital Strategy, Liquidity & Rating Agency Relations

About the role

We are seeking a highly analytical, strategically minded finance leader to drive enterprise capital strategy, liquidity planning, and credit stewardship. This role partners closely with senior leadership to shape financing decisions, proactively manage rating agency relationships, and safeguard the company's financial strength. The Director will lead consolidated liquidity forecasting and capital structure analysis, ensuring alignment between growth objectives, funding strategy, and rating considerations. In addition, this role will champion innovation within Finance by advancing AI-enabled forecasting, analytics, and decision-support capabilities that enhance transparency, agility, and strategic insight. This position also provides cross-functional oversight and continuity for the company's internal corporate insurance program, ensuring alignment between risk transfer strategies and capital management objectives. The role requires deep capital markets expertise, rigorous financial modeling capability, executive-level communication skills, and the ability to translate complex financial dynamics into clear, decision-oriented recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Capital Markets & Capital Structure Strategy
• Evaluate, structure, and execute capital markets transactions, including debt issuances, hybrid securities, alternative financing arrangements, and other capital initiatives.
• Partner with banks and financial institutions to assess market conditions, pricing dynamics, investor demand, and optimal transaction timing.
• Develop forward-looking capital structure strategies that balance growth, liquidity, leverage, and rating considerations.
• Analyze market trends and comparable transactions to inform strategic financing decisions.
• Clearly communicate capital strategy, credit considerations, and rating implications to senior leadership in a concise, decision-oriented manner.
• Coordinate transaction execution across internal stakeholders, external advisors, and banking partners.
• Enterprise Liquidity Strategy & Forecasting
• Own development and oversight of consolidated enterprise liquidity projections, integrating operating cash flows, financing plans, capital deployment, and stress scenarios.
• Lead short- and long-term liquidity planning to ensure adequate financial flexibility under base and stressed conditions.
• Establish and monitor liquidity risk metrics, funding triggers, and early warning indicators.
• Develop contingency funding frameworks aligned with rating agency expectations and risk appetite.
• Partner with Treasury, FP&A, and business leaders to align liquidity forecasts with operating plans and strategic initiatives.
• Provide liquidity analysis and forward-looking funding insights for executive and Board-level materials.
• Financial Modeling, Analytics & AI Enablement
• Own and enhance the enterprise capital and liquidity model, integrating capital structure alternatives, cash flow forecasting, covenant compliance, and rating agency metrics into a unified decision-support framework.
• Perform scenario analysis and stress testing to assess impacts on leverage, financial flexibility, and credit ratings.
• Champion adoption of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics tools to enhance forecasting precision, automate recurring analyses, and improve decision speed.
• Identify opportunities to streamline covenant tracking, market monitoring, scenario modeling, and credit metric reporting through AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with Finance, Data, and Technology teams to build scalable analytics capabilities and strengthen data governance standards.
• Serve as a thought partner to the broader Finance organization on emerging AI applications in capital management and risk analysis.
• Rating Agency Management & Credit Stewardship
• Serve as strategic lead in shaping and delivering the company's external credit narrative.
• Lead preparation and completion of annual rating agency surveys and recurring information requests.
• Develop comprehensive rating agency presentations, including business overview, financial performance, forward outlook, capital strateg

Benefits

Additional Information

Come join one of America's fastest-growing insurance companies. Since 1848, National Life Group has aimed to keep our promises, providing families with stability in good times and in bad. Throughout that history, we have provided peace of mind to those families as they plan their futures. Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we offer. We strive to make the world a better place through our grants from our charitable foundation, paid volunteer time for our employees, environmentally sustainable and healthy workplaces, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard. We foster a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth and encourage our associates to live our values: Do good. Be good. Make good. Please note that we do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

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