Senior Manager, Specialty Finance

GEICO•Bethesda, MD

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, Specialty Finance serves as a strategic finance partner to Commercial Product leadership, translating financial and operational data into clear, actionable insights that support revenue growth, as well as loss and expense management. This role sits at the intersection of Finance and Product, with a primary focus on growth performance drivers, loss analytics, and forward-looking projection support.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related field (MBA and/or CPA preferred).
5+ years in FP&A, Finance, Accounting, and the insurance industry, including work with financial forecasting, data modeling or data science.
Strong Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, VBA)
Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Strong business acumen and proven track record demonstrating ability to deeply understand the needs of the business stakeholders.
Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to use data and metrics to justify assumptions and develop business cases.
Agility to manage changing expectations and priorities.

Nice To Haves

Skillset in PowerBI and/or SQL preferred, but not required
Previous experience as a people leader preferred.

Responsibilities

Own financial analysis and decision support for the Specialty Finance organization: Revenue trends – sales, retention, average premium Loss cost, severity, and frequency trends General expense and operational cost dynamics Plan and forecast – model capabilities and initiative outlook
Partner closely with Product leaders to: Evaluate performance drivers and emerging trends Provide profitability glide path in respect to loss and expense costs Quantify trade-offs between rate and non-rate impacts to profitable growth Support data-backed decisions related to operational changes
Develop and maintain product-focused analytics, including: Retention elasticity insights Loss cost and expense outlooks Pure premium trend analysis Sensitivity analyses and scenario testing
Move beyond reporting to deliver insight-led storytelling that connects financial outcomes to operations and decision levers
Design and operationalize new analytical tools and models to support decision-making at scale
Identify opportunities to improve analytical frameworks, data usability, and insight timeliness across Finance and Product
Serve as a trusted thought partner to: Finance and Product senior leadership Cross-functional with other finance partners (e.g., Distribution, Claims, Reserving, Pricing Analytics)
Support financial and business readouts by distilling complex analyses into clear, decision-ready narratives
Anticipate questions and proactively surface risks and opportunities related to top and bottom line performance
Enhance consistency and rigor across finance’s commercial analytics through: Standardized metrics, templates, and decision frameworks Improved documentation and repeatability of analyses
Contribute to the evolution of FP&A toward a high-impact advisory, forward-looking model
Collaborate with peers to share best practices and elevate analytics maturity across the Specialty CFO organization
Lead, mentor, and develop team members within Specialty CFO organization
Set clear expectations around analytical quality, business partnership, and ownership
Build bench strength by coaching team members toward broader understanding of the business, economics, and trade-offs between decisions.