Why USAA?
At USAA, we have an important mission: facilitating the financial security of millions of U.S. military members and their families. Not all of our employees served in our nation’s military, but we all share in the mission to give back to those who did. We’re working as one to build a great experience and make a real impact for our members.
We believe in our core values of honesty, integrity, loyalty and service. They’re what guides everything we do – from how we treat our members to how we treat each other. Come be a part of what makes us so special!
The Opportunity
This executive role oversees the identification and development of business analytics programs in line with overall company goals and principles. Responsible for strategies that deliver compliant data and information solutions that lead to improvement and optimization in business performance and risk minimization. Works in collaboration with other business leaders to drive decisions based on data, facts, and analytical findings across different parts of the organization.
What You’ll Do
- Accountable for strategic, tactical, operational, and financial responsibilities associated with data storage, data preparation, data exploration, information governance, analytics, and information delivery.
- Accountable for defining and developing business data & analytics strategy to enable achievement of business goals and objectives.
- Collaborate with company and staff agency data and analytics leaders to identify and deliver actionable insights and products to further USAA’s business strategy.
- Provide data & analytics products using Agile methodologies to enable fact based, enterprise decisions that drive the achievement of USAA’s mission and goals.
- May be assigned by the Chief Data & Analytics Officer, to chair high-level cross-business teams to identify strategy synergies and translating these insights into actionable, compliant deployments.
- Provide strategic direction and thought leadership to the Data and Analytics Community across USAA.
- Keep current of industry leading practices and advances in across all data & analytics sub-functions as well as the business associated with the assigned line of business.
- Fosters analytical innovation and promote the importance of data literacy through sharing of analytics knowledge and best practices.
- Responsible for educating, overseeing, and monitoring adherence with Information Governance policy and standards.
- Builds and oversees a team of employees for assigned functional area through ongoing execution of recruiting, development, retention, coaching and support, performance management, and managerial activities.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
What You Have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Engineering, or other quantitative field (e.g. finance or a social/behavioral science); OR 4 years of related experience (in addition to the minimum years of experience required) may be substituted in lieu of degree.
- 10 years progressive experience leveraging data and analytics to drive results in a complex financial services organization.
- 6 years of people leadership experience in building, managing and/or developing high-performing teams.
- Experience collaborating with key resources and stakeholders, influencing decisions, and managing work to achieve strategic goals.
- Executive-level business acumen in the areas of measuring business outcomes, business operations, industry practices and emerging trends.
- Experience leading matrixed teams using Agile methodologies.
- Experience building data and analytic teams and capabilities to support business decision making.
- Proven ability to tell a story through data and communicate problem, impact, and recommendations effectively with senior leadership.
- Expert ability to consult and advise business leaders on development of OKRs, KPIs and KRIs as well as appropriate data and analytic solutions to address business needs.
- Experience with large complex database systems & architecture, structured & unstructured data; with diverse analytics methodologies and approaches.
- Deep understanding of industry best practices and advancements in data and analytics.
- Deep understanding of risk management and compliance practices with experience developing data strategies that mitigate risk.
What Sets You Apart
- US military experience through military service or a military spouse/domestic partner.
- Progressive experience in insurance or financial services.
- Knowledge and application of Data Science principals and experience with data science methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas with business leaders to convey and present very technical information to an audience that may have little or no understanding of technical concepts in data science.
- Experience in the use of data analysis, predictive modeling, data science, measurement, reporting, and data warehousing to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- People leadership experience in building, managing and/or developing high-performing applied analytics (data science, decision science, etc.) team.
Compensation
What we offer:
USAA has an effective process for assessing market data and establishing ranges to ensure we remain competitive. You are paid within the salary range based on your experience and market position. The salary range for this position is: $216,750.00-390,150.00.
Employees may be eligible for pay incentives based on overall corporate and individual performance or at the discretion of the USAA Board of Directors.
Long Term Incentive Plan: Cash payment for Executive level roles only, representing a cash payment which is both time and performance based.
Benefits
At USAA our employees enjoy best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellness. These benefits include comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours, and various wellness programs. Additionally, our career path planning and continuing education assists employees with their professional goals.
For more details on our outstanding benefits, please visit our benefits page on USAAjobs.com.
Applications for this position are accepted on an ongoing basis, this posting will remain open until the position is filled. Thus, interested candidates are encouraged to apply the same day they view this posting.
USAA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.