Vice President - Finance

EMC Insurance Companies•Des Moines, IA

1d•$187,556 - $256,006

About The Position

EMC Insurance is seeking a Vice President – Finance to shape its financial future through strategic insight, strong stewardship, and forward-looking leadership. The role serves as a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team, translating complex financial information into actionable insights while leading accounting, financial reporting, tax, treasury, financial planning and analysis, and finance systems. The position influences enterprise decisions, develops talent, and advances finance capabilities to strengthen financial resilience and long-term performance. The Vice President leads financial reporting and controls, enterprise planning and analysis, treasury and liquidity, finance technology transformation, and tax governance. The role works with executive, board, business, and technology leaders to support financial discipline, effective decision-making, compliance, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field.
Ten years of experience leading complex finance functions and teams, including oversight responsibility for multiple areas such as accounting, treasury, and financial planning and analysis.
Demonstrated knowledge of statutory and GAAP financial reporting, insurance regulatory requirements, Model Audit Rule compliance, corporate tax, treasury, and financial controls.
Ability to evaluate capital, surplus, liquidity, cash flow, profitability, and enterprise financial risk.
Advanced capability in forecasting, scenario analysis, financial modeling, KPI design, and data-informed decision support.
Excellent ability to clearly communicate and present complex financial results, risks, and recommendations and influence decisions with senior executives, governing bodies, regulators, auditors, and business leaders.
Demonstrated change leadership, talent development, organizational design, and cross-functional collaboration.
Knowledge of enterprise financial systems, analytics, automation, and technology-enabled finance transformation.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the property and casualty insurance industry.
Experience leading finance transformation, process improvement, or financial-system implementations.
CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced credentials.

Responsibilities

Ensure timely, accurate, and compliant financial statements, regulatory filings, disclosures, and management reporting under statutory accounting principles and applicable requirements.
Provide executive leadership and board committees with analysis of financial results, trends, risks, unusual items, and corrective actions.
Direct regulatory and external audit relationships, coordinate audits, and ensure timely remediation of findings.
Establish and continuously improve the enterprise financial control framework, including Model Audit Rule compliance, fraud-risk awareness, documented policies and procedures, and audit readiness.
Lead enterprise budgeting, forecasting, and multiyear financial planning aligned with corporate strategy and measurable goals.
Oversee financial modeling and analysis of business performance, strategic initiatives, investments, and emerging risks and opportunities.
Strengthen decision-making and forecast accuracy through performance dashboards, KPI governance, and actionable variance analysis.
Partner across the organization to integrate operating, loss, investment income, surplus, staffing, and expense assumptions into enterprise financial plans.
Communicate outlooks and tradeoffs to executive leadership and establish policies, targets, and accountability measures that promote operating effectiveness and financial discipline.
Develop and implement a talent strategy and develop and grow internal talent.
Advance EMC’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals and foster an innovative culture by supporting new ideas and guiding potential changes.
Lead treasury, cash management, liquidity planning, and banking relationships to maintain sufficient liquidity under normal and stressed conditions.
Oversee cash flow, funding needs, credit facilities, counterparty exposure, and banking services.
Recommend changes that strengthen control, resilience, service, or cost effectiveness, and support enterprise decisions involving capital, surplus, and financial risk.
Lead a multi-year finance technology and transformation roadmap aligned with corporate priorities.
Partner with business and technology leaders to prioritize finance capabilities, system enhancements, and automation.
Sponsor process standardization and improvements that strengthen controls, increase scalability, reduce manual effort, and improve financial information.
Monitor adoption and business outcomes to ensure technology investments deliver intended value.
Oversee compliant tax provisions, filings, payments, disclosures, and regulatory reporting.
Lead an enterprise tax strategy aligned with corporate objectives, financial plans, and risk appetite.
Evaluate tax implications of business decisions, transactions, and changes in law and advise executive leadership.
Maintain effective tax governance, controls, documentation, and audit readiness; direct relationships with external advisors and taxing authorities; and resolve examinations and identified issues.