Finance Director, Financial Planning & Analysis

As part of Enterprise Finance function within I&P, you will be responsible for supporting the Finance Delivery for Consumer Lending & Consumer Small Business Banking Line of Business (LoB). Your role will involve internal management reporting and analysis to provide meaningful insights into the underlying drivers impacting results. You will be expected to ensure smooth Month Close reporting, Quarterly Forecasting, and Variance Analysis. Accuracy and timeliness of data sharing with Leaders and stakeholders will be a key focus, along with presenting data analysis to Finance leadership and Business stakeholders.

- Build strong relationship with Business CFO and Leaders, demonstrating ongoing Partnership - Support the strategy and vision of the Business CFO, making value-added contributions to the Business & Finance strategy - Provide leadership and direction to a team of Managers defining strategic priorities - Guide the team in performing daily activities and work allocations - Act as a subject matter expert, helping contextualize business requirements - Lead the business transformation strategy of owned processes using cutting-edge technology and tools - Develop operating models including building horizontal utilities where feasible - Communicate and present financial performance to various stakeholders and functional heads - Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across functional groups with competing priorities - Supervise the success of large, companywide complex projects and initiatives - Provide guidelines for compliance and risk management requirements for the supported area and work with other stakeholders to implement key risk initiatives - Lead Quarterly forecast cycles for the Business and collaborate with multiple stakeholders - LoB Finance teams, Demand Planning team, Business stakeholders - Analyze group financial performance, inform management of trends and variances, recommend appropriate action, identify, calculate, and recommend the most equitable allocation of groups' expenses, etc. - Manage the monthly close process by analyzing and reconciling expense activity, formulate monthly accruals/journal entries, utilize various internal and vendor provided financial applications to ensure alignment with budgets and forecasts - Interpret and evaluate monthly analyses of business trends, forecast variance of financial results and Key Performance Indicators to identify areas of risk and opportunities, provide recommendations for management review and strategic business sessions - Manage Capital Budgeting/Forecasting including Fixed Assets and Balance Sheet reviews - Manage and provide guidance on vendors that track and analyze vendor expenses to ensure costs are accurately captured and forecasted - Manage General ledger Maintenance support processes (Open/Close of Account Unit, organization hierarchies, etc.) - Manage SLAs and measure them against metrics for continuous improvements and efficiencies

- CA or Masters Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics; MBA / CFA a plus - 20-25 years of experience in a multi-line Banking organization with majority in LoB FP&A function - Knowledge of Finance and Accounting concepts, methodologies, and systems (Cost Basis Accounting, GAAP, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting) - Ability to perform complex analyses, build financial models, draw conclusions, and communicate recommendations to business leaders - Ability to negotiate, influence, and collaborate to build successful relationships - Ability to effectively drive results, provide feedback/direction, and manage and build relationships with leaders and team members in a geographically dispersed team environment - Experience in building and transforming large FP&A delivery teams - Expertise in managing quantitative data and creating meaningful analyses to lead business improvement and cost reductions - Work with large-scale data mining and reporting tools and other financial systems to produce relevant financial reports and MIS - Deep analytical and modeling capabilities and project cost tracking skills - Advanced knowledge of Excel, Powerpoint, and intermediate knowledge of Data & BI Tools (Power BI, Alteryx, Power Apps, etc)

As part of Enterprise Finance function within I&P, you will be responsible for supporting the Finance Delivery for Consumer Lending & Consumer Small Business Banking Line of Business (LoB). Your role will involve internal management reporting and analysis to provide meaningful insights into the underlying drivers impacting results. You will be expected to ensure smooth Month Close reporting, Quarterly Forecasting, and Variance Analysis. Accuracy and timeliness of data sharing with Leaders and stakeholders will be a key focus, along with presenting data analysis to Finance leadership and Business stakeholders. Key Responsibilities