VP – Insurance F&A Solutioning, Client Enablement

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VP leading EXL's insurance finance and accounting solutioning strategy, major pursuits, and client enablement. Building propositions, winning complex deals, and scaling solutioning teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Own Insurance F&A Solutioning OKRs and align them with Insurance growth strategy, pipeline targets and win-rate goals
  • Shape the Insurance F&A go-to-market agenda across Life, Annuities, Group, Retirements, Personal Lines, Commercial Lines, Specialty, Workers' Compensation and Broker Management
  • Identify value-chain white spaces and build investment cases for new propositions
  • Partner with growth leaders on sole-sourced and proactive opportunities and build executive-level prospect and client relationships
  • Lead end-to-end RFP/RFI/RFx processes as deal owner for strategic bids
  • Lead deal governance, including qualification, solution and pricing reviews, risk and deal-shaping calls, and approvals
  • Define win themes, differentiators and commercial models including outcome-linked and gain-share structures
  • Lead solution presentations, executive orals, POC demonstrations and client workshops
  • Lead due diligence and transition-readiness assessments, including M&A and portfolio transactions
  • Improve existing client solutions and identify expansion and transformation opportunities
  • Direct research and publication of industry POVs, benchmarks, case studies and analyst briefings
  • Represent EXL at industry forums, client events and analyst engagements
  • Maintain a reusable knowledge base of solution documents, RFx responses, case studies and demos
  • Lead, mentor and performance-manage direct and indirect solutioning leaders and contributors
  • Build succession pipeline and talent bench
  • Set the solutioning operating model, including capacity planning, quality standards, reuse, win/loss reviews and metrics
  • Collaborate across sales, account management, digital, data & analytics, and operations & transitions

Requirements:

  • 15–20 years of experience, including at least 10 years in F&A
  • Track record in at least four areas: pre-sales, solutioning and bid management; strategic consulting or transformation advisory; digital transformation and intelligent automation including GenAI; data management and analytics; insurance operations leadership; account management and client partnership; opportunity assessment, commercial modelling and deal structuring
  • Proven record of leading and winning large, multi-year, multi-tower Insurance F&A or BPM deals, indicatively $10M+ annual contract value
  • Experience leading teams of 15+ people in a matrix environment
  • Established credibility with C-suite and senior finance, operations and technology leaders at US insurers, reinsurers and brokers
  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Mathematics, Insurance, Computer Science or a related field
  • Strategic thinking and ability to translate market trends and client priorities into differentiated propositions, win themes and transformation roadmaps
  • Expertise in commercial and pricing models, benefit cases and risk-reward structuring
  • Deep understanding of Insurance F&A processes across Life and P&C, including premium, claims, reinsurance, commissions, US GAAP, NAIC SAP and regulatory accounting and reporting
  • Compelling storytelling, negotiation and orals delivery to C-suite audiences
  • Strong business writing and research-backed industry POV publication record
  • Ability to build, coach and scale solutioning teams and influence senior stakeholders across a matrix organisation
  • Working knowledge of automation, AI/GenAI, analytics, and insurance and finance platforms
  • Ability to orchestrate multiple concurrent pursuits and meet stringent timelines under pressure
  • Highly proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word
  • Willingness to travel across the US and occasionally to EXL global delivery locations
  • MBA from a top-tier business school strongly preferred; master's degree or equivalent senior executive education is a plus
  • Good-to-have: knowledge across specified Insurance F&A lines; US GAAP including LDTI, NAIC statutory accounting, SOX, state regulatory reporting and IFRS 17; certifications such as CPA, CMA, CPCU, AIC, API, AU, ARe, CIP or FLMI; insurance and finance software, CRM and integration methodologies; technology partnerships; M&A, carve-out or portfolio transition due diligence

Benefits:

  • Work from home / remote work arrangement
  • Base salary of $200,000–$250,000
  • Opportunity to work with senior finance, operations and technology leaders
  • Travel to client meetings, orals, industry events and EXL global delivery locations