Finance Sr Manager

Citizens•New York, NY

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. (CFG) seeks a Finance Sr. Manager for its New York, New York location. This role is responsible for managing financial processes, including strategic planning, budgeting, monthly forecasting, monthly reporting, and ad-hoc analytics. The Finance Sr. Manager will partner with technology, product, and enterprise stakeholders within Consumer Banking to project, monitor, and manage investments in Small Business Banking and Digital and Omnichannel Banking. This includes managing the operating expense budget, forecast, and strategic plan process for these areas. The role also involves developing comprehensive CAPEX forecasts, supporting expense reduction initiatives, and developing financial tools to calculate and track benefits. The Finance Sr. Manager will provide financial stewardship for the division, encompassing month-end close, monthly financial reviews, rolling forecasts, annual and multi-year planning, and variance and attribution analysis. The position requires leveraging analytical tools such as Hyperion Essbase, Dodeca, and Tableau to identify and interpret trends in complex data sets. Additionally, the role drives process improvements, including management and organization of metric data, creation and automation of standard and ad-hoc reports, and management of dashboards. The Finance Sr. Manager will analyze revenue growth opportunities and provide financial advice and insight to the group to ensure appropriate levels of financial analysis, scenario modeling, and integration are incorporated into ongoing decision making. This involves performing financial and quantitative analysis and reporting on data sets by leveraging SQL, Tableau, and other similar tools for data analytics and data visualization. The role also engages in product road mapping, including sizing opportunities, estimating project impact, measuring success of high impact initiatives, and creating attribution models.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Analytics, or closely related field
3 years of experience as Financial Specialist, Finance Expert, Manager – Financing & Analytics, or closely related position.
Utilizing advanced statistical and modeling techniques including ToolPak, for outlier detection and forecasting
Utilizing data science methods to build analytic solutions to strategic business problems
Analyzing data using SQL and Tableau reports to prove a hypothesis and make recommendations for improvement
Managing projects using Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Writing SQL queries in large relational databases
Building automated and scalable reporting dashboards in Tableau and Excel for management decision making
Utilizing Oracle to review GL entries and create reports using Hyperion Planning and Essbase to build annual budget and monthly forecasts
Leveraging Excel macros to automate financial budgeting, forecasting tools, and variance analysis
Translating requirements into product design and experience lead targeted initiatives
Product road mapping, including sizing opportunities, estimating project impact, measuring success of high impact initiatives, and creating attribution models using advance Excel functions.

Responsibilities

Responsible for managing financial processes, including strategic planning, budgeting, monthly forecasting, monthly reporting, and ad-hoc analytics.
Partners with technology, product, and enterprise stakeholders within Consumer Banking to project, monitor, and manage investments in Small Business Banking and Digital and Omnichannel Banking.
Manages the operating expense budget, forecast, and strategic plan process for Small Business Banking and Digital and Omnichannel Banking.
Develops comprehensive CAPEX forecast, supports expense reduction initiatives, and develops financial tools to calculate and track benefits.
Provides financial stewardship for the division, including month-end close, monthly financial reviews, rolling forecasts, annual and multi-year planning, and variance and attribution analysis.
Leverages analytical tools such as Hyperion Essbase, Dodeca, and Tableau to identify and interpret trends in complex data sets.
Drives process improvements, including management and organization of metric data, creation and automation of standard and ad-hoc reports, and management of dashboards.
Analyzes revenue growth opportunities and provides financial advice and insight to the group to help ensure appropriate levels of financial analysis, scenario modeling, and integration is incorporated into ongoing decision making.
Performs financial and quantitative analysis and reporting on data sets by leveraging SQL, Tableau, and other similar tools for data analytics and data visualization.
Engages in product road mapping including sizing opportunities, estimating project impact, measuring success of high impact initiatives, and creating attribution models.