Head of Strategic Finance & Resource Allocation

U.S. Bank • Minneapolis, MN

1d • $193,035 - $227,100

About The Position

Seeking a Head of Strategic Finance & Resource Allocation, a senior executive to build and lead enterprise capability for forward-looking financial strategy and resource allocation decisions. This role provides decision support that guides strategic priorities, aligns investment choices with long-term value creation, and partners to ensure capital and resources are deployed against the enterprise’s highest-priority opportunities.

Requirements

• Deep financial analysis, enterprise FP&A, capital allocation, and resource allocation expertise.
• Strong executive decision-framing skills, including the ability to translate complex analysis into clear choices, trade-offs, and recommendations.
• Experience leveraging scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, stress testing, and external risk perspectives to inform strategic decisions.
• Strategic vision and enterprise orientation, with the judgment to balance growth, cost, risk, and balance sheet priorities.
• Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across Finance, Enterprise Strategy, business lines, and executive leadership forums.
• Strong communication and executive presence, including experience developing MC- and BOD-ready materials.
• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and scale high-performing analytical teams.
• MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced finance, strategy, or quantitative credentials.
• Experience spanning both strategy and finance, ideally in an enterprise or corporate finance leadership capacity.
• Experience leading capital allocation, strategic finance, or resource allocation functions at a large financial institution.
• Familiarity with bank balance sheet dynamics, regulatory expectations, economic outlooks, and enterprise risk considerations.

Responsibilities

• Guide enterprise capital allocation and resource allocation analysis across growth, cost, risk, and balance sheet priorities, extensively partnering with relevant stakeholders.
• Frame and influence enterprise trade-offs across capital, cost structure, and growth investments, shaping MC- and BOD-ready decision inputs and narratives.
• Provide forward-looking enterprise decision support to guide strategic priorities, resource deployment, and executive decision-making.
• Leverage enterprise quantitative models, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and external risk perspectives to inform assumptions, options, and recommendations.
• Deliver flexible and agile analytics solutions deployed to priority strategic problems, investment decisions, and emerging strategic questions.
• In concert with Enterprise Strategy, provide strategic financial partnership to guide strategic initiatives and enterprise decision forums.
• Deliver MC- and BOD-ready decision framing, executive materials, and recommendations that clarify choices, trade-offs, and implications.

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• Pension

What This Job Offers

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