This newly formed role will lead the expense reporting team for Hartford Funds. The role involves driving financial excellence and influencing the firm’s ability to make informed decisions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead a team that thoroughly reviews all expenses (actuals and forecast), ensuring accuracy and transparency.
- Establishes disciplined, repeatable departmental processes that ensure consistency and reliability in financial data.
- Conduct ongoing reviews of departmental budgets, developing a comprehensive understanding of variances and their implications.
- Create insightful reports and analyses that inform strategic decision-making, with a focus on expense allocations for various profitability views.
- Creates the firms expense story, translating data into a clear narrative.
- Work to continuously improve the contract management process, collaborating with accounting and The Hartford's Procurement team to streamline operations.
- Undertake special projects and additional tasks as needed.
Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience.
- A minimum of 10 years of finance and accounting experience, with a proven track record of success.
- Superior Excel modeling skills; ability to create flexible financial models.
- A high level of comfort with in-person interactions across all levels of the organization, need to be a “connector” that is ensuring the right business discussions are taking place and that all groups are effectively communicated with.
- Comfortable working in a small, fast-paced, hands-on department
- No asset management industry experience necessary; this role is a great entry point for someone eager to learn the industry.
