Staff Engineer - Finance BI Engineer (Hybrid)

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.

Hybrid: PaloAlto, CA and Dallas, TX

GEICO is seeking Finance Data specialists to support the build out of a Finance Data Warehouse/Lake by partnering with both Finance and Technology teams to redesign the way they use their technologies in managing GEICO's business. This individual must have strong functional and technical Finance Systems background to partner with the Business ensuring effective discussions to drive the capture, transformation, and analytics-driven utilization of Finance data to meet Business goals.

The Staff Engineer, Finance Data BI Specialist will report to the Senior Manager of Finance Data & Analytics and will provide solutions on how to build out, maintain, and support a Finance Data repository to support FP&A processing and business intelligence analytics while also supporting the larger Finance organization’s need for Finance data and analytics. The Finance Data Specialist will work with multiple Finance and Technology leaders to support the build out the company’s Finance Data Warehouse/Lake to provide a central repository for all Financial related transactions so it can be a reconciled source of truth for processing and the source for Revenue and Expense analytics. This role is also accountable to support the delivery of technology solutions that will support FP&A Planning/Budgeting, financial reporting, Revenue/Expense Analytics, and the build out of the Finance Data Warehouse to become a reconciled source to allow the GL to become a “thin” ledger.

The ideal candidate has deep Finance Systems experience across multiple companies; a background in ERP and Finance Data Warehouses from both technical and functional aspects; and has supported the deployment of best practices leveraging their broad knowledge of various ERPs (e.g. Oracle; Workday; SAP or PeopleSoft). Prior Financial Systems experience is required for consideration.

Position Responsibilities

As a Staff Engineer, Finance Data BI Specialist supporting Finance functions you will:

• Leverage your strong Functional and Technical systems expertise to drive towards the right solutions to support Finance’s current and future needs

• Collaborate with Finance Leaders within the FP&A, Controllers, Financial Reporting, and Finance QA & Systems team along with the Data Engineering and Finance Technology leaders to ensure organizational goals are met
• Have a deep understanding of a few Finance functions to support the establishment of a vision and technology roadmap to build out a Finance Data Lake/Warehouse
• Have a good understanding of finance data lake/mart technologies, and approaches for data transformation using ETL/ELT tools such as Informatica, DBT, etc.
• Experience working with cloud data solutions (Delta Lake, Iceberg, Hudi, Snowflake, Redshift or equivalent)
• Develop high-quality, accurate data visualizations and reports using tools like Power BI and Apache Superset to support data-driven business decisions
• Support the implementation of a strong control and governance framework and maintain it for SOX and Audit reviews
• Support Business and Technology discussions at various levels to ensure alignment towards long term goals of Finance and Technology
• Analyze and translate business and functional specifications and change requests into technical specifications
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Qualifications
• 15+ years of Finance Systems experience with industry leading ERP solutions (e.g. implementing and supporting Oracle; Workday; SAP or PeopleSoft)
• 3+ years of experience in implementing and supporting FP&A applications (Preferred)
• 3+ years working with or supporting a Finance Data Lake/Warehouse/Mart along with various Financial Reporting tools
• Good understanding of Dimensional Data Modeling
• Deep knowledge of Power BI administration (workspaces, capacities, security, governance) and Power Platform administration (environments, Dataverse, flows, apps)
• Advanced knowledge of business intelligence tools (strong preference for Power BI) and ETL tools (strong preference for DBT)
• Strong understanding of identity, access management, and compliance in Microsoft 365 and Azure AD
• Experience architecting CI/CD pipelines for Power BI solutions (Azure DevOps or GitHub)
• Strong understanding of identity, access management, and compliance in Microsoft 365 and Azure AD.
• Experience with enterprise orchestration tools such as Airflow is preferred
• Finance domain expertise to be able to work with senior Finance leaders to interpret their process and functional needs into system solutions
• Good understanding of FP&A Budgeting, Planning, and forecasting processes
• Good understanding of accounting process and reporting expectations to partner with Finance teams

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent education or work experience

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.