Director, Financial Operations

Kemper
St. Louis, TX
Category Finance
Job Description
The Director, Financial Operations leads all activities for Accounts Payable, Billing, Escheatment, Travel & Entertainment Expense Processing, Vendor Processing, Payroll, Check Services, and 1099 Processing. This position also develops, implements, and administers the vision, strategy, and goals of the department.

Requirements

  • Refine, devise, and implement scalable processes and standards to ensure a positive customer experience, a controlled operating environment, and internal efficiency
  • Proactively discover inefficiencies in workstreams and process flows and find ways to improve
  • Understand the team’s key metrics and KPIs, how to advance initiatives that ultimately support these objectives
  • Provide input and advice as a subject matter expert across several topics including payment processing methods, NACHA Operating rules and Debit Card processing
  • Help operational teams with the analysis of incidents, and with the implementation of workarounds, formulate solutions to mitigate risks and minimize the impact for our stakeholders, internal and external
  • Ensure that all processes and procedures are compliant with various accounting and regulatory requirements and are well documented / implemented across the organization
  • Identify and communicate the impacts of regulatory changes or market practices with the support of the segments and compliance department stakeholders
  • Administrator for the Corporate Credit Card program, Travel & Expense Policy, and Expense Reimbursement processes
  • Manage the integration of Disbursement Service-related activities for acquired companies, as needed
  • Manage external vendor relationships, as necessary
  • Loading, Coding and Settlement: Non-trade vendor disbursements (checks and ACH); Agent Commissions (multiple workstreams); claim check reissues; abandoned property payments for claimed activity; abandoned property escheatment payment to States
  • Treasury Operations: Research and clear positive pay exceptions and reconciliations; manual uploads of positive pays; process bank returns
  • Claims Operations: Process stop payments, voids and reissues requests made through Kemper Claim Center
  • Agent Activity: Process commission payments, chargebacks, and exceptions

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k
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