Senior Financial Analyst

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC•Minneapolis, MN

2d•$71,300 - $98,100•Hybrid

About The Position

Ameriprise Financial has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team. In this role, you will analyze business performance, identify trends, and deliver insights that drive strategic decision-making. You will serve as a subject matter expert for key data sources, ensuring timely access to accurate information and supporting critical business requests. This position also offers the opportunity to independently build, maintain, and enhance forecasting, planning, and decision-support models that help leaders make informed business decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a financial or quantitative field
3-5 years of proven experience
Previous experience in financial or analytical role.
Consistently demonstrates the ability to complete financial modeling tasks and financial analysis using spreadsheets and/or other tools.
Experience applying accounting and financial concepts to interpret and solve business problems.
Able to build outputs that support decisions.
Strong communication skills, with ability to verbally present findings to management.
Ability to complete advanced financial modeling tasks and financial analysis using spreadsheets and/or other tools.
Must have strong interpersonal and business skills to support CBA and new advisor offer processes.

Nice To Haves

May have MBA or other advanced degree/certification.
Experience in building relationships that influence and establish credibility across an organization – to business partners, senior finance leadership, other finance areas, etc.

Responsibilities

Create routine reporting by driving variance analysis – focus on providing business context.
Assist in developing commentary around business results.
Perform independent analysis using multiple data sources to derive root cause and track benefits of past.
Develop, improve, and run forecasting/planning models and perform variance analysis.
Independently develop simple to sophisticated models to forecast the future implication of business decisions.
Independently perform postmortem analysis of impact of past business decisions.
Coherently review forecasts and analyses with management.
Review CBA’s (Cost Benefit Analysis) and identify issues to be resolved prior to approval.