Strategy & Planning Advisor

PNC Bank • Pittsburgh, PA

2d • Onsite

About The Position

This role supports enterprise-wide efficiency work, including capacity and process assessment (CAPA) engagements. The team partners with all lines of business and regularly engages senior leaders to identify, size, and execute efficiency opportunities. CIP is responsible for ensuring that PNC’s annually published efficiency target is achieved and helps repurpose expenses to higher-priority needs across the organization. This role supports strategic enterprise initiatives to understand, analyze, recommend and deliver strategy and planning solutions. Supports team in providing expertise to create the definition, understanding and framing of complex business initiatives. Executes advanced planning, analysis, solution development and presentation for strategic initiatives. Ensures quality and accuracy of data elements relative to the initiatives. Analyzes and recommends solutions for key initiatives. Develops and delivers structured and compelling presentations to highlight key findings and makes recommendations to key decision makers within the company. Collaborates with the line of business and/or multiple line of businesses to implement recommended strategic solutions.

Requirements

• Experience partnering with stakeholders to identify opportunities and deliver outcomes
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to structure and interpret complex data
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including comfort presenting to leaders
• Strong organization and project management skills, with attention to detail
• University / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Continuous improvement and process improvement fundamentals
• Working knowledge of Technology terminology, functions, and operating model
• Understanding of common Technology expense drivers (people/resources, systems, suppliers)
• Ability to pull, structure, and analyze financial data
• Ability to identify expense and efficiency opportunities from financial and operational data
• Ability to assess timing/feasibility windows for opportunities (e.g., contract renewals, end-of-life events, contractor spend management)
• Awareness of AI trends and potential applications to expense management and productivity
• Branding
• Change Management
• Creative Process
• Design Thinking
• Innovation
• Machine Learning (ML)
• Personal Initiative
• Strategic Planning

Responsibilities

• Define, map, and understand key business processes
• Identify the data elements required for capacity planning
• Determine the best data sources and collection methods based on availability and quality
• Build and maintain resource calculators and supporting models in Microsoft Excel
• Interpret results, assess capacity constraints, and develop recommendations
• Transition tools and recommendations to business owners and monitor outcomes
• Supports strategic enterprise initiatives to understand, analyze, recommend and deliver strategy and planning solutions.
• Supports team in providing expertise to create the definition, understanding and framing of complex business initiatives.
• Executes advanced planning, analysis, solution development and presentation for strategic initiatives.
• Ensures quality and accuracy of data elements relative to the initiatives.
• Analyzes and recommends solutions for key initiatives.
• Develops and delivers structured and compelling presentations to highlight key findings and makes recommendations to key decision makers within the company.
• Collaborates with the line of business and/or multiple line of businesses to implement recommended strategic solutions.

Benefits

• medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
• dental and vision options
• employee and spouse/child life insurance
• short and long-term disability protection
• 401(k) with PNC match
• pension and stock purchase plans
• dependent care reimbursement account
• back-up child/elder care
• adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
• educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
• a robust wellness program with financial incentives
• maternity and/or parental leave
• up to 11 paid holidays each year
• 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
• between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

What This Job Offers

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