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Assistant Director Financial Planning

Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

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Job overview

The Assistant Director Financial Planning serves as a strategic finance partner to leaders across a large service call-center organization. The role leads planning and forecasting, analyzes financial and operational performance, and provides recommendations on resource allocation, expenses, workforce planning, and investments. It partners with senior leaders to improve service experiences, evaluate AI and automation investments, and align resources with business priorities.

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Skills

Financial PlanningForecastingBudgetingPerformance ReportingWorkforce PlanningFinancial ModelingScenario AnalysisInvestment EvaluationKPI DevelopmentData AnalysisProcess ImprovementAutomationCommunication

Full job description

JOB REQUIREMENTS: About the Job: This leader serves as a strategic finance business partner responsible for supporting business leaders through financial planning, forecasting, performance reporting, workforce planning, operational performance management, and decision support analysis across a large Service call-center organization. This role provides financial leadership and influences outcomes through expertise, partnership, and analytical insight. The position translates complex financial information into actionable recommendations that improve resource allocation, expense management, and business performance. This position partners closely with Senior Leaders to optimize cost-to-serve, enhance service experiences, support workforce transformation, evaluate AI and automation investments, and ensure resources are aligned to business priorities. This leader translates complex financial and operational data into actionable insights that improve service outcomes, workforce effectiveness, expense management, and enterprise value creation. What You'll Do: Lead annual planning, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range financial planning processes for assigned business areas, ensuring assumptions, timelines, and deliverables are aligned with strategic priorities. Serve as a trusted finance partner to Service leadership by translating financial and operational performance into actionable recommendations that improve business outcomes, client and field experience, and organizational effectiveness. Develop, monitor, and communicate key performance indicators and financial metrics that measure progress against strategic and operational objectives. Develop and review financial models, scenario analyses, business cases, and investment evaluations to support resource allocation, expense management, workforce planning, and strategic decision-making. Analyze actual results versus budget and forecast, prepare executive-ready reporting packages, and communicate performance insights, variances, risks, and opportunities to leadership. Manage workforce and expense planning activities, including headcount forecasts, hiring requests, organizational changes, position management, and alignment of staffing plans to budget and business priorities. Build trusted cross-functional relationships with business leaders and influence decisions through sound financial judgment, data-driven analysis, and strong communication. Drive process improvement, automation, and operational excellence across planning, reporting, forecasting, and financial management activities to improve efficiency and insight generation. Ensure financial plans, forecasts, reports, and expense processes are accurate, timely, well documented, and consistent with finance policies, procedures, and control expectations. Develop financial analyses and recommendations supporting cost optimization, service transformation,... For full info follow application link. EEO/AA Employer/Vets/Disability ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: ipc.us/t/EAE1FF43992B4B9A Qualified females, minorities, and special disabled veterans and other veterans are encouraged to apply.

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