Company Information
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Job Summary
We are looking for a proven finance leader and business partner to join the Technology & Operations Finance leadership team to support the Digital & Enterprise Architecture community at Travelers. This role will directly support the SVP/CIO - Digital & Enterprise Architecture and focus on building and executing a holistic framework for strategic planning and investment focused on our Digital and Enterprise Architecture strategies and related initiatives to achieve business goals and outcomes. Key investments would include Digital enterprise and cross-business area initiatives as well as investments within the businesses.
The finance leader will be accountable for financial planning and analysis for the Digital & Enterprise Architecture organization as well as aggregating all data and analytic activity across the company into a single view. The Digital & Enterprise Architecture finance function will work across the enterprise to inform the SVP of overall investments, inclusive of developing and tracking key metrics and outcomes. The leader will have a hands-on but pragmatic approach in articulating strategies, informing metrics and implementing strong analytics and financial views to support engagement and transparency in all Travelers Digital & Enterprise Architecture work.

The leader will also support the investment planning and governance processes at the TRV enterprise level and support the agile transformation within the Digital Enablement organization. This includes investment funding, reporting, financial management, and governance practices. This role will be expected to build collaborative partnerships across the enterprise and will report to the Vice President, Technology FP&A with direct financial support for the SVP/CIO - Digital & Enterprise Architecture.

Primary Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Support an integrated planning process for our Digital & Enterprise Architecture programs to feed into Functional, Business and Technology planning processes across the enterprise. This would include working with technology and business groups across the enterprise to align information as needed to enable aggregation at the broad Travelers level, and to integrate division/functional information into an overall Travelers Digital & Enterprise Architecture financial framework.
• Lead monthly cross-enterprise meetings with business and technology leadership to ensure continued alignment and coordination of key investments, to inform decision-making on initiatives, and highlight new spend or unplanned initiatives that arise during the year.
• Support processes that facilitate ongoing executive engagement on key Digital & Enterprise Architecture investments. Periodic executive discussion on key investments would include: progress along shared outcomes, discussion on priorities, pace and direction as needed, and key issues for management attention. Cadence to include mid-year checkpoint and annual review of next year plan to provide visibility and tracking of full portfolio of strategic investments.
• Engage and support the development of key metrics to support the Digital strategies and roadmap along with support for current and target core Digital strategic priorities, goals and outcomes. Working across the enterprise to build out financial models to align Digital capabilities to business goals and outcomes, assess gaps and investment needs, and define the business case for key investments for Travelers outcomes.
• Provide financial support for investment funding and governance processes, engaging with the organization to ensure enterprise views of investments and outcomes.
• Develop Cost Benefit Analysis and Business Case models to align support funding requests. Design approaches for benefit evaluation and tracking that is oriented around KPIs as leading indicators of financial benefit and aligned with enterprise and business area goals/outcomes, and coordinate with business areas to aggregate full cost and benefit views.
• Manage all aspects of financial planning and accounting in support of the Digital & Enterprise Architecture group.
• Provide ongoing input to strategic planning across the organization to ensure end-to-end accountability for driving results. Includes approach for alignment of investment KPIs to strategic goals/outcomes/financial KPIs and MYPs and a process for monitoring and tracking.
• Provide Digital & Enterprise Architecture input for Enterprise Governance Report scorecards / reporting for key investments, including horizontals and critical business investments.
• Support expanded governance processes for Digital & Enterprise Architecture cross-enterprise senior leadership forums.
• Drive positive change across the organization by uniting, influencing, and collaborating across the organization.
• Assist with various projects as assigned/other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications
Minimum of 6 years of related experience. Minimum 3 years of management experience.

Education, Work Experience & Knowledge

• Bachelor's Degree in finance, business, economics or similar required; MBA strongly preferred
• 10+ years' leadership experience in finance; strategic FP&A experience a plus
• Strong P&C industry financial experience required
• Experience with Travelers planning and investment governance is strongly preferred.

Job Specific & Technical Skills & Competencies

• Demonstrated experience defining, motivating and driving change at the executive level and across stakeholders in a highly matrix environment.
• Strong executive management skills with the ability to lead, build, and influence.
• Strong alignment with and support for the SVP/CIO - Digital & Enterprise Architecture.
• Strong communicator who can engage with leaders and peers across the company.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking and execution delivery.
• Excellent leader and developer of talent.
• Ability to navigate effectively across complex matrixed organization with strong interaction and influencing skill.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain a positive attitude in all environments, under multiple time constraints, requests, and pressure levels.
• Ability to work with a strong sense of urgency and working with limited information and data.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with all levels of management through diplomacy and tact.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills - compelling ability to tell stories from complex data.

Physical Requirements
Operates standard office equipment (Frequently) Sitting (can stand at will) (Frequently)

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Travelers is an equal opportunity employer.
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