Senior Finance Analyst - Planning & Analysis

Bank of America•Charlotte, NC

5d•Onsite

About The Position

This job is responsible for more complex financial activities involving the consolidation of the bank's month-end close, planning, forecasting and capital processes. Key responsibilities include performing forecasting, profitability analysis, financial reporting, and trend analysis using advanced modeling /software skills and assisting with ad hoc requests. Job expectations include working with key planning and analysis partners on small projects, research, and evaluations of financial performance while maintaining Operational Excellence and a controls discipline. The Senior Financial Analyst within the Compensation and Benefits Finance Team. The role offers an enterprise-wide view of a highly dynamic, visible and critically important part of the company’s expense base. Skills gained from the role include a deep understanding of how incentive compensation expense works across the firm including how business performance and executive decisions impact expense results. The role offers opportunity for visibility, exposure and collaboration with partners across HR, Corporate Treasury and Finance.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree, in accounting or finance, or relevant work experience
Detail oriented with track record of accuracy in high visibility/impact responsibilities
Analytical Abilities / Financial Acumen - Systematic application of a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to examine information, interpret results and arrive at well-founded logical conclusions.
Analyze and communicate how business decisions impact financial results.
Organization and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and responsibilities
Advanced excel skills
Experience processing and visualizing large data sets
Strong communication, organization, presentation, analytical and leadership skills
Builds Partnerships - Builds broad-based business relationships across the organization. Skillfully influences peers and colleagues to promote and sell ideas. Proactively surfaces and resolves conflict with minimal noise.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of eLedger tools
Working knowledge of Alteryx and Tableau
Experience loading forecast
Financial planning, analysis and reporting experience
Knowledge of incentive compensation accounting

Responsibilities

Reviews, challenges, and reports on forecasts and budgets by comparing current performance against plan, prior periods and prior forecasts, and evaluating current and future performance trajectory
Compiles financial information from a Line of Business (LOB) and consolidated perspective for presentation to stakeholders
Develops financial management dashboards, reports, presentations, ad hoc analysis, and research using Microsoft Office Suite and Emerging Technology tools
Collaborates with teams across the Finance division to ensure integrity of the financials, sound controls, and efficient and effective procedures with limited oversight
Supports 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
Exhibits strong attention to detail and applies analytical thinking and problem solving to deliverables while collaborating with key stakeholders and partners
Preparation of the enterprise-wide incentive compensation forecast including coordination among the HR compensation team and line of business (LOB) finance teams.
Analysis of performance variance and drivers across all lines of business.
Preparation of reporting and analysis to aid board level decisions.
Preparation of incentive and capital inputs into the enterprise stress testing process
Ad-hoc analysis, including research and analysis for HR teams and LOB finance partners.