Vice President - CFO, Auto

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

Chief Financial Officer, Auto

Job Description

The Government Employees Insurance Company (GEICO) is a private American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway and is the third largest auto insurer in the United States. In 2024, GEICO earned premiums worth over $43 billion U.S. dollars.

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.

When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.

As Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Auto, you serve as the primary financial leader of the Auto Division, as well as a key business partner to GEICO’s finance leadership team. You will ensure the delivery of the quarterly, annual, and medium-term financial commitments of the Auto Division through best-in-class performance management processes, systems, and capabilities. GEICO is driving to continually enhance its finance infrastructure, to standardize its reporting and analysis processes, and to drive more robust forecasting metrics, processes, and tools across the organization for leading insights.

You will utilize data and analytical projections in order to lead and execute a comprehensive finance transformation agenda aimed at business growth. You will oversee the division’s key financial activities, including financial planning and analysis and will drive all strategic financial initiatives. As Auto CFO, you will be responsible for setting expectations for management and delivery of timely financial information including results, forecasting and budgeting, competitive analysis, predictive modeling and performance against key operating metrics that deliver strategic insight on the short-, medium-, and longer-term outlook of the business. 

The Auto CFO will:

• Prepare and review material for the management teams of GEICO.
• Advise and serve as a business partner to the finance and business leadership teams on business strategy, financial strategy, and performance.
• Lead and monitor financial policies and practices to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting, in compliance with all laws and regulations in order to safeguard the company’s assets.
• Accurately compile the division’s financial statements. This includes reviewing data provided from departments and ensuring accuracy while meeting deadlines.
• Challenge operational and financial trends and assumptions, while incorporating strategic assumptions into the annual planning, budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Work cross-functionally on strategic issues and opportunities facing the company, including the development of a business strategy for sustained profitability and expected financial returns, the introduction of new programs/strategies, and regulatory action. Be seen as a resource in the development of solutions to business challenges.
• Build agility and resilience within the team and the broader finance organization to drive transformation.

Qualifications:

Technical / Functional:

• Accomplished business and finance leader with a consistent record of high performance, financial, strategic and operational leadership across consumer and commercial business segments. Extensive functional experience in corporate planning, business unit finance, strategy, and operations a plus.
• Excellent analytical, financial, and business management skills with deep understanding of P&L management.
• Strong strategic skills including ability to assess and/or define new business opportunities.
• Deep understanding of finance data flow and tools.
• Outstanding ability to communicate and break down complex ideas into understandable and actionable messages.

Leadership:

• Proactive mindset and a relentless passion to win.
• Effective and inspiring team leadership skills with proven ability to hire and train top talent and inspire through coaching and recognition.
• Highly collaborative individual who can influence multiple internal partners to drive results in a matrixed environment.
• Extensive project management expertise and experience in transformation.
• Ability to balance attention to detail and accuracy with tight deadlines on critically meaningful work.
• An "own it" attitude; a "doer" comfortable in a lean, informal, and free flowing environment; solves problems collaboratively through open and constructive discussion. Not overly corporate or too big company. Proactive and comfortable wearing many hats.  
• Data-driven and biased for action. Able to make quick, calculated decisions with confidence.
• Provide a strong point of view as a key member of the senior finance team. Provide strategic vision and tactical execution to enhance revenue growth.
• Highly motivated; brings a high level of enthusiasm and energy; wants to win. Brings a scrappy attitude and is unafraid to roll up their sleeves and dive into the details.
• Possess strong leadership qualities and proven ability to lead through influence in a strong region/business led organization; a track record of recruiting, motivating, and developing “A” talent. Builds strong teams and is able to get work done through teams.
• Track record of strong personal and professional integrity; committed to continue building a sustainable, profitable business while meeting the highest ethical standards.

Location:

• This is a hybrid role, requiring a minimum, on-site presence of 3 days per week at our Chicago, IL; New York, NY or Chevy Chase office.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• In office and remote opportunities, as well as our signature GEICO Flex program, offering the ability to work remotely for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.

Annual Salary

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
• Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
• Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.

The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.

GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.