Director, Finance - Business Analysis & Control & FP&A Transformation)

Aegon is seeking a Director of Finance to lead business analysis, controls, and FP&A transformation activities. The role delivers financial insights, improves Finance processes and data governance, leads reporting automation and analytics initiatives, and partners with cross-functional leaders on Finance transformation priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze financial performance, trends, risks, and opportunities, and translate findings into actionable recommendations
• Partner with business leaders to support strategic planning, resource allocation, and decision-making
• Maintain effective financial controls, governance, and compliance processes
• Identify and implement process, automation, and reporting improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, and transparency
• Oversee financial data quality, reporting tools, and analytical capabilities within FP&A
• Lead Finance process engineering initiatives to simplify, standardize, and automate financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, and performance management processes
• Assess end-to-end workflows to eliminate manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve the efficiency and scalability of Finance operations
• Serve as a Finance leader on transformation programs, partnering with Technology, Data, Actuarial, and Operations to implement solutions that improve data quality, reporting, and decision support
• Partner with data and technology teams to design and govern Finance data solutions, including cloud-based repositories, AWS data lake environments, and integrated reporting architectures
• Guide the design and implementation of scalable financial data models that support consistent planning, forecasting, reporting, analytics, and performance management across Finance
• Establish and enhance data governance, lineage, and quality standards to improve reporting reliability and decision-making
• Lead the development of executive dashboards, management reporting, and self-service analytics using Power BI and other data visualization tools
• Translate complex financial and operational data into clear dashboards, scorecards, and performance metrics for senior leaders and business partners
• Champion data visualization, automation, and advanced reporting solutions to expand business insight and shorten reporting cycle times

Requirements:

• • Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or equivalent experience
• • 12 years of accounting/finance experience including eight years of management experience
• • Extensive knowledge of assigned business area (e.g. investments, premiums, corporate finance)
• • Strong leadership and people management skills
• • Ability to effectively communicate, orally and in writing, to diverse audiences
• • Organizational and prioritization skills
• • Advanced computer skills in MS Office, Excel and financial business systems
• • Demonstrated experience leading Finance process engineering, business transformation, or large-scale process improvement initiatives in a complex financial services environment
• • Experience designing and implementing finance data, planning, reporting, or analytics solutions using cloud-based technologies and integrated data architectures
• • Strong knowledge of finance data management, data governance, process optimization, reporting automation, and business intelligence
• • Proven ability to partner with technology teams to translate finance requirements into scalable data, reporting, and analytics solutions
• • Expertise in financial planning, forecasting, management reporting, variance analysis, and performance management
• • Ability to analyze complex financial and operational information and communicate clear, actionable insights to senior leaders and business partners
• • Strong relationship-management and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate across Finance, Actuarial, Investments, Technology, Operations, and other business functions