Hybrid FP&A Analyst — Budget & Insights for Lending

Citizens Bank

Rhode Island

Hybrid

USD 73,000 - 101,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Flexible work arrangements

Education reimbursement

Job summary

Citizens Bank in the United States is seeking a Finance Analyst to support the Consumer Lending business. You will provide financial analytics, reporting, and budget awareness with a focus on expense management, collaborating across finance, business, and partners.

You will deliver insights to leaders to keep forecasts and targets on track, develop monthly reports and forecasts, and drive process improvements. This role offers a 4-day in-office, 1-day remote hybrid schedule.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related field.
Work experience in financial analysis, FP&A, or accounting.
Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously and within tight deadlines.
Strong to Advanced Excel skills.
Proficiency in PowerPoint and Word.
Detail oriented with strong organizational and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

Develops monthly financial reports, annual budget, and monthly forecasts. Provide transparent reporting, highlighting significant assumptions, opportunities and risks. Distill conclusions into succinct, impactful analysis and commentary appropriate for executive management.
Provides insight and makes recommendations to key business leaders to ensure the business line stays within budget forecasts, and general targets. Continuously consults externally for updates from business partners and researches trends in the business or customer base to ensure forecasts and recommendations are up to date.
Evaluate financial projections in light of environment, historical performance, initiatives and external market expectations. Preparation and coordination of monthly variance analysis during month end closing process. Research and analysis of variances to determine underlying business reasons.
Identifying and driving process improvements, including improvement in management / organization of metric data for business line, creation of standard and ad hoc reports. Includes determination of appropriate approach, resources required, schedule for completion and monitoring of project progress.
Design of format and content of presentation, quality review of accuracy, and recommendations provided to management.