Gregory Horvath Email & Phone Number

Allentown, Pa, Us

Northeast Regional Office, Bethlehem, Pa

Northeast Regional Office, Bethlehem, Pa

ACCOMPLISHMENTS INCLUDE:• 2014 CEO Award Recipient in recognition of his resolute and collaborative leadership for tax efficiency work, including complete analysis of premium/DAC tax obligations on Individual Life business, which resulted in over $3M in annual tax savingsRESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:• Deliver the complex calculation implementation and tax compliance and reporting across Individual Life traditional and non-traditional life insurance business.• Manage business operations team responsible for resolving escalated and complex cases.• Partner with General Agents, Brokers, and Financial Representatives on pre-sales planning and inforce solutions.• Provide expertise in Federal/State tax withholding and FATCA implementation projects.• Collaborate with multiple Home Office business areas as key business contributor on life insurance product development initiatives and other critical process and system enhancements.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Manage activities of offshore resources.• Guide the development of specifications and requirements for Group Insurance systems.• Collaborate with IT Architects and designers to create detailed analysis artifacts including Functional, Non-Functional, and Data Mapping documents.• Perform data profiling and analysis.• Serve as liaison between Group Insurance and all other Cigna Group Insurance functional areas.

Business/Product leadership responsibilities include:• Create, review, and support testing of complex administrative system functionality including all policy lifecycle calculations, 7702/7702a compliance testing and claims management• Operate as subject matter expert for BOLI/COLI products including WL, UL, VUL, PPVUL, Group products, annuities• Drive requirements definition for all major systems and subsystems, including accounting, trades, and illustrations, reinsurance, among many others• Function as the final approver for all Business Requirement documents and Functional Requirements.• Design technology solutions for cash suspense, experience rating, and new business subsystemsTechnical/Project leadership responsibilities include:• Lead teams of development and analysis staff in creating JavaSE administrative platforms and JavaEE/Oracle web-based distributed systems• Serve as liaison between project team and executive management in reporting status and managing overall effort• Guide staff activities within waterfall, agile, and hybrid software development approaches• Help shape and influence the company’s evolving SDLCClient leadership responsibilities include:• Responsible for overall service delivery to carrier clients• Serve as the key client contact for the organization• Contribute during contracting and consulting activities• Complete new client new service proposals and fulfill RFP requests• Aid sales executives as system expert during sales callsRepresentative Clients: Cigna, Great-West Life, New York Life, Sun Life, and AGLPositions held previously: Client Relationship Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Business Analyst¸ Quality Assurance Analyst, and Operations Specialist

Mba, Finance Concentration

Bachelors, Chemistry

Education record

• Business Requirements Gathering and Analysis • Advanced Project Management (Lehigh University) • Associate Life Management Institute.

Education record

• Development Languages & Technologies: JavaSE, SQL/PL, XML, XSL, HTML, Shell Scripting, Oracle/SQL/DB2 Developer Tools • Software.