Strategic Finance Analyst: Exec Insights & Modeling

Jobtailor; Minnesota; On-site; USD 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a rigorous Financial Analyst to support US Bank Finance and Impact Finance strategic planning. You will craft executive materials, develop financial narratives, and connect data to business implications using Excel and Power BI.

You'll coordinate inputs across teams, maintain governance for financial models, and track business cases against forecasts, milestones, and assumptions to drive informed decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field.
• Typically 3+ years in financial analysis, planning, or analytics.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills; Power BI or similar visualization tools preferred.
• Ability to build financial models with revenue, expenses, timing and profitability assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a strategic conversation calendar for leadership discussions, initiative reviews, decision points, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate inputs, timelines, and stakeholders to ensure strategic topics are addressed with complete, accurate information.
• Prepare discussion materials, executive summaries, presentations, briefing notes, and data-driven narratives linking financial results to business implications.
• Build and maintain a standardized business case template and evaluation process.
• Track approved business cases against actual results, forecasts, milestones and original assumptions.
• Identify variances, risks, opportunities, and required actions.
• Maintain process documentation, model governance, version control, and quality checks.
• Streamline reporting, planning, and analytical processes through Excel, visualization tools, automation, and responsible use of AI.
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis and support special projects.
• Support U.S. Bank Finance and Impact Finance business leaders in strategic planning and decision-making.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Strategic Planning

Excel Proficiency

Power BI Experience

Communication Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

Power BI

PowerPoint

Excel

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a rigorous Financial Analyst to support US Bank Finance and Impact Finance strategic planning. You will craft executive materials, develop financial narratives, and connect data to business implications using Excel and Power BI.

You'll coordinate inputs across teams, maintain governance for financial models, and track business cases against forecasts, milestones, and assumptions to drive informed decisions.