Senior Financial Analyst - Strategic Forecasting & Insights

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 71,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Health insurance

Dental and life insurance

Job summary

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 SME 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a financial or quantitative field.
• 3-5 years of proven experience in a financial or analytical role.
• 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.
• Strong communication skills, with ability to verbally present findings to management.

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 decisions.
• 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 cost-benefit analyses and identify issues to be resolved prior to approval.

Skills

Financial modeling

Financial analysis

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in finance or quantitative field

Tools

Spreadsheets

Excel

Job description

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 SME 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