Vice President - Finance

EMC Insurance; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 188,000 - 256,000; Full time

Job summary

EMC Insurance seeks a Vice President – Finance to shape the company’s financial future through strategic insight, strong stewardship, and forward-looking leadership. As a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive team, you’ll translate complex financial information into actionable insights while leading accounting, financial reporting, tax, treasury, FP&A, and finance systems.

This executive role emphasizes talent development, enterprise risk awareness, and a data-informed approach to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or related field.
• Ten years of experience leading complex finance functions and teams.
• Experience in property and casualty insurance preferred.
• CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced credentials preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensures timely, accurate, and compliant financial statements and regulatory filings.
• Provides executive leadership with clear analysis of financial results, trends, risks, and actions.
• Directs external audits and coordinates remediation of findings.
• Leads budgeting, forecasting, and multi-year financial planning.
• Oversees financial modeling, KPI governance, and performance dashboards.
• Partners to integrate operating, loss, and investment assumptions into enterprise plans.
• Communicates outlooks and tradeoffs to executives and boards.

Skills

GAAP & statutory reporting

Forecasting & modeling

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting/finance/business

CPA/CMA/MBA or equivalent

Job description

Vice President - Finance# Careers## Vice President - FinanceApply: On-Site: Des Moines- Corporate Office: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 27, 2026 (30+ days left to apply): R6600**At EMC, we’re all about working together to make an impact. As part of our team, you’ll have the opportunity to grow, contribute, and gain experience that matters. We strive to be caring leaders, close partners, and responsive experts—always supporting each other to do our best work. Join us, and let’s improve lives together.**EMC Insurance is seeking a **Vice President – Finance** to help shape our financial future through strategic insight, strong stewardship, and forward-looking leadership. As a trusted advisor to the CFO and executive leadership team, you’ll translate complex financial information into actionable insights while leading accounting, financial reporting, tax, treasury, financial planning and analysis, and finance systems. This is an opportunity to influence enterprise decisions, develop talent, and advance finance capabilities that strengthen EMC’s financial resilience and long-term performance. **Essential Functions:** * Ensures timely, accurate, and compliant financial statements, regulatory filings, disclosures, and management reporting in accordance with statutory accounting principles and applicable requirements.* Provides executive leadership and board committees with clear analysis of financial results, trends, risks, unusual items, and corrective actions.* Directs regulatory and external audit relationships, coordinates audits, and ensures timely remediation of findings.* Establishes and continuously improves the enterprise financial control framework, including Model Audit Rule compliance, fraud-risk awareness, documented policies and procedures, and audit readiness.* Leads enterprise budgeting, forecasting, and multiyear financial planning aligned with corporate strategy and measurable goals.* Oversees financial modeling and analysis of business performance, strategic initiatives, investments, and emerging risks and opportunities.* Strengthens decision-making and forecast accuracy through performance dashboards, KPI governance, and actionable variance analysis.* Partners across the organization to integrate operating, loss, investment income, surplus, staffing, and expense assumptions into enterprise financial plans.* Communicates outlooks and tradeoffs to executive leadership and establishes policies, targets, and accountability measures that promote operating effectiveness and financial discipline.* Develops and implements a talent strategy. Effectively develops and grows internal talent—a priority in EMC’s culture.* Advances EMC’s diversity, equity and inclusion goals. Fosters an innovative culture, including supporting new ideas and providing guidance on potential changes.* Leads treasury, cash management, liquidity planning, and banking relationships to maintain sufficient liquidity under normal and stressed conditions.* Oversees cash flow, funding needs, credit facilities, counterparty exposure, and banking services.* Recommends changes that strengthen control, resilience, service, or cost effectiveness and supports enterprise decisions involving capital, surplus, and financial risk.* Leads a multi-year finance technology and transformation roadmap aligned with corporate priorities.* Partners with business and technology leaders to prioritize finance capabilities, system enhancements, and automation.* Sponsors process standardization and improvements that strengthen controls, increase scalability, reduce manual effort, and improve financial information.* Monitors adoption and business outcomes to ensure technology investments deliver intended value.* Oversees compliant tax provisions, filings, payments, disclosures, and regulatory reporting.* Leads an enterprise tax strategy aligned with corporate objectives, financial plans, and risk appetite.* Evaluates the tax implications of business decisions, transactions, and changes in law and advises executive leadership.* Maintains effective tax governance, controls, documentation, and audit readiness; directs relationships with external advisors and taxing authorities; and resolves examinations and identified issues. **Education & Experience:**The education and experience below are required for the job unless labelled as preferred:* 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* Experience in property and casualty insurance industry preferred* Experience leading finance transformation, process improvement, or financial-system implementations preferred* CPA, CMA, MBA, or other relevant advanced credentials preferred**Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:**The knowledge, skills, and abilities below are required for the job unless labelled as preferred:* 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**The hiring salary range for this position will fall within the following range:**$187,556 - $256,006**A hiring range represents a subset of the full salary range. The actual salary will depend on several factors, including relevant education, skills, and experience of an applicant, and business needs.****For information relating to the benefits EMC Team Members receive as part of a comprehensive rewards package, please visit** **www.emcins.com/careers****.***Our employment practices are in accordance with the laws that prohibit discrimination due to race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, active military status, citizenship status, marital status or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local laws.****All of our locations are tobacco free including in company vehicles.***