Finance Manager - Business Support (Incentive Compensation and Field Reporting Horizontal Manager)

Bank of America • Charlotte, NC

2d • Onsite

About The Position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us! Job Summary: This job is responsible for serving as a finance partner to specified Lines of Business (LOBs) and directing the day-to-day finance activities to manage strategic annual planning and implementation. Key responsibilities include performing forecasting, profitability analysis, expense efficiency, pricing, financial reporting, and overseeing value creation ideas and new investment business cases. Job expectations include supporting management in key decision making, and influencing and gaining support from financial analysts. Line of Business Job Description: This leader will manage a team of ~13 analysts supporting all team activities. The core pillars of this responsibility align to the CFO Manager Placemat and include (1) managing the people, (2) managing and improving the work, (3) managing risk and (4) effectively communicating/cascading messages around “the why” throughout the team. The core responsibility of this leader is people and process management - influencing others to perform and deliver, and leading their organization to achieve sustainable, accurate and well controlled results. Managers should have a clear understanding of the end-to-end process (including its purpose) and a discipline of managing and continuously improving those processes. Managers are accountable for the team’s work product – ensuring the work their team delivers is well controlled, accurate and of the highest quality.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional/demonstrated work experience within financial services industry
• Flexible with the ability to adapt to a changing environment and a willingness to challenge the status quo
• Capability to decompose complex issues and drive timely decisions, knowing when to engage others and when to act independently
• Ability to deliver process improvements to increase the overall efficiency, effectiveness and consistency of processes while managing to lower risk
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to meet critical deadlines
• Superior ability to communicate concepts and ideas both verbally and in written form
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work cohesively within a team-oriented environment
• Self-motivated to consistently achieve personal standards of excellence
• Strong attention to detail coupled with control-oriented mindset
• Business Process Analysis
• Collaboration
• Data Quality Management
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Critical Thinking
• Data Visualization
• Decision Making
• Prioritization
• Business Acumen
• Business Case Analysis
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling
• Project Management
• Reporting

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree (Finance / Accounting preferred)
• Operational Excellence work experience
• Knowledge of the Consumer/GWIM business and associated corporate functions

Responsibilities

• Oversees the financial analysis and reporting needed to provide Line of Business (LOB) and finance leadership with trends and comparisons on all financial matters, focusing on maximizing revenue growth, cost management, profitability, cash flow generation, and operational improvement
• Reviews LOBs financial performances and provides strategic direction to teams by assisting with synthesizing key trends, assessing current and future business risks, and preparing, analyzing, and reporting on financial results and key metrics
• Manages forecasting and/or budgeting and compares current performance against plan, prior periods, and forecasts to evaluate current and future performance trajectory
• Delegates and provides oversight to teams building financial management reports, presentations, and ad hoc analyses for LOBs and/or finance partners
• Implements new and ongoing projects and strategic initiatives by helping to create new processes to automate key reporting capabilities and delivering on process improvements and simplifications to enable increased focus on strategic priorities
• Builds, maintains, and manages partner relationships across the Finance division and implements policies and procedures that ensure integrity of the financials, sound controls, and effective procedures

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager