Vice President, Business & Function Finance

BNY Mellon•Pittsburgh, PA

About The Position

The role supports strategic data and transformation initiatives across CFO, Treasury, and Regulatory Reporting functions. It serves as a link between Finance and Treasury stakeholders, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Data, and Technology teams, translating complex business and regulatory needs into implementable requirements and helping drive solutions through analysis, validation, testing, and implementation. The position combines financial-services domain knowledge with analytical, data, and Agile delivery capabilities in a large, complex, highly controlled environment. It can be located in Pittsburgh or NYC. The successful candidate will lead business analysis from problem definition through requirements, delivery, and implementation, with a focus on understanding financial objectives, interrogating underlying data, translating requirements for Technology, and driving change toward controlled, measurable business outcomes.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst within banking, financial services, or another complex financial environment.
Demonstrated experience delivering change across Finance, Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, or Data functions.
Experience in one or more of the following: CFO and Finance functions; financial products and transaction lifecycle; Treasury and liquidity management; regulatory reporting frameworks and controls; regulatory and financial reporting; Finance and risk data; balance-sheet and liquidity management; or data lineage, reconciliation, and reporting controls.
Strong capability in requirements elicitation, process analysis, functional decomposition, impact assessment, gap analysis, business rules, process mapping, and requirements traceability.
Strong analytical mindset and experience working with large, complex datasets.
Ability to work effectively within Agile delivery models, including epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement and prioritization, sprint planning, sprint reviews and demonstrations, UAT, and release readiness.
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Technology, Data, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to structure ambiguous and complex problems.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including effective communication with senior stakeholders.
Strong stakeholder-management skills and confidence constructively challenging assumptions and requirements.
Ability to work across business, data, and technology teams.
High degree of ownership, attention to detail, and focus on delivery outcomes.
Ability to manage competing priorities and dependencies in a large-scale Agile delivery environment.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on SQL capability is strongly preferred.
Experience with Jira and Confluence.
Experience with regulatory reporting requirements relating to liquidity, capital, balance sheet, or other prudential reporting frameworks.

Responsibilities

Partner with CFO, Treasury, Regulatory Reporting, Risk, Data, and Technology stakeholders to understand objectives and define requirements.
Lead requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation across complex Finance and Treasury initiatives.
Translate business and regulatory needs into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional and data requirements.
Perform impact analysis across business processes, data flows, systems, and downstream regulatory and management reporting.
Analyze financial data using SQL and other analytical tools to support requirements definition, investigation, and validation.
Define and validate data requirements, including data elements, business rules, transformations, mappings, lineage, and reconciliation requirements.
Identify data-quality issues and work with business and technology teams on root-cause analysis and sustainable remediation.
Support solution design by confirming technology and data solutions meet business and control objectives.
Develop test scenarios and acceptance criteria, and coordinate business validation and user acceptance testing through implementation.
Maintain end-to-end traceability from business requirements through solution delivery and testing.
Identify dependencies, risks, assumptions, and issues, and work with stakeholders to resolve them.
Communicate complex business and data concepts clearly to senior business stakeholders and technical teams.
Lead analysis independently from initial problem definition through requirements, delivery, and implementation.