Vice President – Decision Analytics (Actuarial)

Our client is a leading operations management and analytics company that helps businesses enhance growth and profitability in the face of relentless competition and continuous disruption. Using our proprietary, award tool, which integrates analytics, automation, benchmarking, BPO, consulting, industry best practices and technology platforms, we look deeper to help companies improve global operations, enhance data-driven insights, increase customer satisfaction, and manage risk and compliance. They serves the insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, utilities, travel, transportation and logistics industries.

Analytics provides data-driven, action-oriented solutions to business problems through statistical data mining, cutting edge analytics techniques and a consultative approach. Leveraging proprietary methodology and best-of-breed technology, their Analytics takes an industry-specific approach to transform our clients’ decision making and embed analytics more deeply into their business processes. Our global footprint of nearly 2,000 data scientists and analysts assist client organizations with complex risk minimization methods, advanced marketing, pricing and CRM strategies, internal cost analysis, and cost and resource optimization within the organization. Analytics serves the insurance, healthcare, banking, capital markets, utilities, retail and e-commerce, travel, transportation and logistics industries.

Role and Responsibilities:

Seeking an experienced Account Executive to generate revenue growth within new and existing accounts in insurance with core focus on life & annuities product. The successful candidate will have deep knowledge of analytics and insurance L&A. The candidate will have demonstrated consistent success and experience in meeting aggressive growth goals by proactively uncovering opportunities for analytics, actuarial, consulting and process management.

Major Job Functions

Account Management— Be self-driven with a mentality to identify and grow existing business with insurance relationships. Be responsible for managing key client executives and pro-actively identifying emerging opportunities within existing clients and working towards converting them. Work effectively in complex environments by always trying to put client needs first and solving for their key business challenges.

Consultative Selling— Earn the role of trusted advisor by demonstrating a thorough understanding of analytic solutions and matching these services to client needs and critical industry challenges. Provide guidance to internal teams that work with you to develop and implement effective solutions

Delivery— Be responsible for delivering on select engagements as identified by the practice leader. Contribute and participate in account planning efforts with all team members within the vertical to identify upcoming areas of interest and proactively identify audience to go after for those opportunities.

Relationship Management— Manage client relationships and work with the engagement managers in ensuring delivery of projects with an uncompromising focus on client satisfaction, timelines, budgets & other milestones while leveraging a global delivery model. Monitor client satisfaction with the ongoing delivery of existing projects and request interventions from delivery leaders, if required. Proactively identify expansion opportunities within existing relationships as well as new engagements to serve emerging needs of the clients and lead the business development leveraging capabilities and expertise within the organization.

Candidate Profile:

*           MBA from a top-tier business school

*           Experience delivering analytics engagements for Life & Annuities Insurance business

*           Strong understanding of Insurance business

*           Strong understanding of Actuarial practices and process improvement opportunities

*           Ability to drive personal results in a collaborative, team selling environment

*           Experience in managing senior level relationships extending to the C-level

*           Strong consultative sales and negotiation skills preferred

*           Demonstrates good problem solving and analytical skills

*           Ability to lead productive and engaging meetings with individuals who may have competing goals and objectives

*           Ability to influence contacts to become a change agent within their financial institution

*           Excellent written and oral communication skills; articulate and persuasive presence and speaking experience required

*           Proven skill to build relationships by offering recommendations through formal sales presentations, written proposals, and negotiating to yes preferred

*           Excellent planning, organizational and project management skills. Familiarity with Salesforce.com highly preferred

Sincerely,

Larry Janis, janis@issg.net

Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030

 

Digital Finance & Accounting Transformation Solutions Leader

Role Overview

Our clients Digital Business Operations business unit is growing quickly by transforming finance and accounting processes for over 100 clients, many of which are global marquee brands.  Their Finance & Accounting (F&A) practice is strategic to our growth and transforming to be a digital transformation leader in F&A.  Our strategy is centered on applying cutting-edge technology and platforms, industry-process domain expertise and full-suite of transformation assets into differentiated solutions that deliver outstanding business outcomes for our clients.

To enable that strategy we seeking several highly skilled, experienced and successful leader solutioning F&A transformations.  We are looking for someone from a top tier F&A services firm that has led solution teams and F&A solutioning for large, complex, transformative and global F&A outsourced solutions. In addition, the ideal candidate will be a domain subject matter expert in key F&A processes (i.e., P2P, O2C, RTR, FP&A), digital technologies and industries in order to define and enable new, winning solutions/offerings.

Experience

  • At least 10 years of experience as a solution architect/solution team manager in F&A / enterprise services for top tier global F&A business process services providers
  • Winning track record of leading the architecture of large, complex, technology-centric, global F&A solutions – from structuring the solution, costing-pricing, developing & presenting proposals, writing statements of work, service levels and business outcomes
  • F&A functional process subject matter expert in either or all; procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, financial planning & analysis, regulatory/compliance. Expertise and know-how in procurement, HR, supply-chain, customer experience is a plus
  • Industry domain specialization/know-how in F&A processes in a or multiple industries; banking, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics, B2B/B2B services, technology, utilities-energy
  • Defining competitively differentiated solutions & offerings with top F&A technology partners (e.g., Blackline, High Radius, Basware, TradeShift, etc.), intelligent-cognitive partners (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Celonis, etc.) and across an enterprise-wide technologies
  • Successfully leading multi-function, global teams on the solutioning and sales of F&A deal pursuits through all stages of the sales process with strong program management
  • Understanding of the CFO/F&A organization and ecosystem, F&A market and providers to develop and differentiate solutions and how we go to market to outperform them
  • Excellent problem solving and business communication (written & oral) skills to effectively engage with clients
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial and highly matrixed organization and “roll up your sleeves” attitude to get things done inside and outside the company

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect transformative solutions by defining how to operationalize processes, apply technologies, structure the organization, transition and transform and deliver the scope of services
  • Solution development from conceptualizing and structuring the solution, costing-pricing, developing & presenting proposals, writing statements of work, service levels and business outcomes
  • Engage with clients and our internal operations teams to successfully stand-up and transition work from clients to our client
  • Proactively engaging internal and external partners in the solutioning, offering development and deal pursuit to close opportunities with existing and new clients
  • Proactively reviewing solutions and gaining alignment with transition, transformation and operational delivery on proposals to existing and new clients
  • Sales support various internal teams (e.g., marketing, influencer relations, etc.) to provide the necessary support and collateral on to support our go-to-market execution

If you are interested or know someone who might be please let me know. Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

Larry Janis, janis@issg.net

Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

ISSG I Twitter I LinkedIn

Digital Finance & Accounting Transformation Solution Architect


Role
 Overview

Our clients Digital Business Operations business unit is growing quickly by transforming finance and accounting processes for over 100 clients, many of which are global marquee brands.  Their Finance & Accounting (F&A) practice is strategic to our growth and transforming to be a digital transformation leader in F&A.  Our strategy is centered on applying cutting-edge technology and platforms, industry-process domain expertise and full-suite of transformation assets into differentiated solutions that deliver outstanding business outcomes for our clients.

To enable that strategy we seeking several highly skilled, experienced and successful leader solutioning F&A transformations.  We are looking for someone from a top tier F&A services firm that has led solution teams and F&A solutioning for large, complex, transformative and global F&A outsourced solutions. In addition, the ideal candidate will be a domain subject matter expert in key F&A processes (i.e., P2P, O2C, RTR, FP&A), digital technologies and industries in order to define and enable new, winning solutions/offerings.

Experience

  • At least 10 years of experience as a solution architect/solution team manager in F&A / enterprise services for top tier global F&A business process services providers
  • Winning track record of leading the architecture of large, complex, technology-centric, global F&A solutions – from structuring the solution, costing-pricing, developing & presenting proposals, writing statements of work, service levels and business outcomes
  • F&A functional process subject matter expert in either or all; procure to pay, order to cash, record to report, financial planning & analysis, regulatory/compliance. Expertise and know-how in procurement, HR, supply-chain, customer experience is a plus
  • Industry domain specialization/know-how in F&A processes in a or multiple industries; banking, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, logistics, B2B/B2B services, technology, utilities-energy
  • Defining competitively differentiated solutions & offerings with top F&A technology partners (e.g., Blackline, High Radius, Basware, TradeShift, etc.), intelligent-cognitive partners (e.g., UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Celonis, etc.) and across an enterprise-wide technologies
  • Successfully leading multi-function, global teams on the solutioning and sales of F&A deal pursuits through all stages of the sales process with strong program management
  • Understanding of the CFO/F&A organization and ecosystem, F&A market and providers to develop and differentiate solutions and how we go to market to outperform them
  • Excellent problem solving and business communication (written & oral) skills to effectively engage with clients
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced entrepreneurial and highly matrixed organization and “roll up your sleeves” attitude to get things done inside and outside the company

Key Responsibilities

  • Architect transformative solutions by defining how to operationalize processes, apply technologies, structure the organization, transition and transform and deliver the scope of services
  • Solution development from conceptualizing and structuring the solution, costing-pricing, developing & presenting proposals, writing statements of work, service levels and business outcomes
  • Engage with clients and our internal operations teams to successfully stand-up and transition work from clients to our client
  • Proactively engaging internal and external partners in the solutioning, offering development and deal pursuit to close opportunities with existing and new clients
  • Proactively reviewing solutions and gaining alignment with transition, transformation and operational delivery on proposals to existing and new clients
  • Sales support various internal teams (e.g., marketing, influencer relations, etc.) to provide the necessary support and collateral on to support our go-to-market execution

If you are interested or know someone who might be please let me know. Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

Larry Janis, Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

E: janis@issg.net

ISSG I Twitter I LinkedIn

Cloud Services Lead

Location: East coast (NJ/NY Preferably)

Overview & Responsibilities:

Our client looking for an exceptional Cloud Services Lead skilled in a diverse range of cloud hosting technologies.  Expert knowledge of cloud storage, compute, networking, backup, disaster recovery, etc. services and operations, required to maintain high service levels, optimal performance, maintaining and shaping strategic direction.  The Cloud Services Lead will have a deep understanding of cloud services, migrating traditional on premise workloads to cloud, and architecture and design of new cloud opportunities.   The Cloud Services Lead will work closely with multiple internal teams to ensure efficient operations for both internal corporate based and customer facing hosted applications.  Heavy focus on security and compliance is a key responsibility of this role.  This role will involve translating business requirements into technical solutions, meeting security, compliance, high SLA, disaster recovery, and operational components.  Must have experience leading technical teams.  The position will lead cloud hosting services, disaster recovery/business continuity architecture, design, and operations, including periodic DR/BCP test exercises.

 

This role is an escalation point for 24 x 7 systems and staff is on call to support production systems.  This position also requires oversight and completing work during maintenance windows.

  • Expert in Cloud storage, compute, and network (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Expert in Cloud Services  (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Expert in Migrating workloads and services from traditional datacenter to cloud (AWS, Azure, Google)
  • Expert in Server Operating Systems (Windows, Linux)
  • Expert in Cloud based Backup/Archive
  • Experience with Cloud based Network architecture
  • Experience Scripting of system administration tasks, e.g. bash, PowerShell, python, etc. (required)
  • Experience with Cloud based enterprise telephony solutions
  • Exceptional ability to configure, maintain and troubleshoot infrastructure, hardware, software, and systems connectivity.
  • Strong organizational skills; able to manage priorities and workflow.
  • Demonstrated ability to perform complex technical tasks, analysis and diagnostics
  • Ability to understand and follow written and verbal instructions.
  • Experience industry compliance and security requirements, SOC1/2, SOX, HIPAA, HiTrust, PCI DSS, ISO27001

Qualifications & Experience:

  • 5-7 years managing cloud operations
  • 5-7 years leading large technical teams
  • 5-7 years migrating on premise workloads to cloud
  • Relevant cloud certifications
  • Experience managing financial budgets
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

If you are interested our know someone who might be, please let me know

Larry Janis, Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030

ISSG I Twitter I LinkedIn

Digital Identity Functional Delivery Lead

You Are

A passionate leader who brings technology innovation, facilitation skills, and an entrepreneur mindset to deliver valuable solutions for clients. You have excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills. You are a life-long learner and energized by solving new problems and transforming how our clients think.

 

The Work

You’ll often be:

  • Helping clients transform through technology by leading and implementing strategic assessments and technology solutions that drive business change, focusing on high-impact systems development activities and business and IT advisory across a multi-client or industry ecosystem
  • Leading projects that deliver world-class Blockchain & Multiparty Systems technology solutions.
  • Providing a comprehensive suite of blockchain and distributed ledger technology services through a global team of experts.
  • Delivering solutions for our most complex client engagements and early adopters; coordinating across multiple teams to define and evaluate the business case, formulate an approach, propose the technology solution, and assess risks.
  • Helping clients’ move through the education and experimentation phases on to production and value quickly and effectively.
  • Building relationships with clients to raise Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
  • A key participant in developing Accenture’s response to the emerging technology trends in the market shifting how businesses apply, operationalize, and expand key technology innovations.
  • Articulating and explaining Accenture’s technology vision and strategy at Accenture’s most significant/critical client(s) across the globe.
  • Pioneering the use of new and emerging technologies, such as decentralized identity, confidential computing, extended reality, quantum computing, or robotics.
  • Fortifying Accenture’s Blockchain & Multiparty Systems practice and role as a thought leader by creating content and taking part in professional forums, both internal and external.
  • Mentoring junior members of the Blockchain & Multiparty Systems team and grooming them for more responsibility.
  • Area of focus is digital (decentralized) identity.

You should have experience with some of the following:

  • Experience with blockchain or distributed ledgers.
  • Awareness of the commercial, retail, and social impacts of Digital Identities
  • Conveying and communicating complex scenarios and solutions in a simple, logical manner that addresses varying audiences.
  • Understanding business challenges and explaining how an offering and service provides value with an objective and independent point of view.
  • Working through organizational change and/or expanding ecosystem relationships, developing, and delivering creative solutions.
  • Insights on key methodologies, approaches, and market trends in the industry.

If you are interested or perhaps know someone who might be, please let me know! Thank you in advance!

Sincerely,

 

Larry Janis

 

Managing Partner I Integrated Search Solutions Group

P-516-767-3030 I C-516-445-2377

ISSG I Twitter I LinkedIn