Director of Strategic Finance & Business Partnering – Operations
The Hartford•Hartford, CT
•Hybrid
About The Position
This role serves as a catalyst for transforming Operations Finance into a modern, insight-driven function—elevating how financial planning, forecasting, and performance management support decision-making. The Director partners with Operations, Workforce Planning, and Finance leadership to connect workforce models to financial outcomes, enabling more accurate forecasts, faster insights, and stronger alignment to business strategy. This role moves beyond traditional reporting to focus on decision enablement, financial structuring, and team leadership, while driving modernization across Operations Finance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting required
- 10+ years of experience in FP&A, analytics, or decision support (insurance/financial services preferred)
- Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing teams, including building capabilities in analytics, financial modeling, and business partnership
- Strong experience with data and analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python)
- Experience driving automation and process improvement initiatives (tightened + outcome-focused)
- Strong communication skills with ability to influence senior leaders
- High attention to detail with strong financial control mindset
- Advanced Excel skills
Nice To Haves
- MBA or CPA preferred
- familiarity with TM1 preferred
Responsibilities
- Design driver-based forecasting models that connect workforce planning to financial outcomes
- Identify and implement opportunities to automate and operationalize workforce-to-financial model integration
- Develop scalable forecasting approaches that improve speed, accuracy, and transparency
- Proactively identify trends, risks, and opportunities using data
- Lead the roadmap to modernize forecasting, reporting, and analytics
- Standardize and streamline workflows to reduce manual effort and improve consistency
- Strengthen integration between financial and workforce planning models
- Serve as a strategic advisor to Operations leadership, shaping decisions with clear financial insights
- Translate operational activity and workforce drivers into structured financial models and decision frameworks
- Provide forward-looking insights, shifting from retrospective reporting to proactive decision support
- Translate workforce updates/changes into clear financial insights
- Own a proactive process to communicate forecast impacts to Business Segment CFOs ahead of or in line with forecast cycles
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing finance team
- Build capability in workforce analytics, financial modeling, and business partnership
- Establish clear expectations around ownership, accountability, and strategic thinking
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and engagement
- Partner with Technology Finance to streamline, standardize, and centralize reporting
- Align financial structures and reporting frameworks across teams to improve the quality, consistency, and usability of reporting for Operations leadership, while reducing duplication and enabling a more scalable finance operating model
- Lead development of Operating Plan, forecasts, and monthly results
- Own financial reporting, variance analysis, and executive commentary
- Partner with Workforce Planning / HR on staffing assumptions and financial impact
- Ensure accuracy, transparency, and consistency of financial information
Benefits
- short-term or annual bonuses
- long-term incentives
- on-the-spot recognition
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
