Strategic Finance Analyst - Forecasting & Incentives

Bank of America

Charlotte (NC)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Bank of America is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst within the Compensation and Benefits Finance Team to deliver forecasting, profitability analysis, financial reporting and trend analysis with strong modeling and Excel skills. This role provides an enterprise-wide view of a dynamic, high-impact portion of the expense base and offers visibility and collaboration across HR, Corporate Treasury and Finance.

The candidate will build dashboards and reports, partner with LOB finance, and drive

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in accounting or finance, or relevant work experience.
Detail oriented with track record of accuracy in high visibility/impact responsibilities.
Analytical Abilities / Financial Acumen - Systematic application of a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to examine information, interpret results and arrive at well-founded logical conclusions.
Organization and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and responsibilities.
Advanced excel skills.
Experience processing and visualizing large data sets.
Strong communication, organization, presentation, analytical and leadership skills.
Builds Partnerships - Builds broad-based business relationships across the organization. Skillfully influences peers and colleagues to promote and sell ideas. Proactively surfaces and resolves conflict with minimal noise.

Responsibilities

Reviews, challenges, and reports on forecasts and budgets by comparing current performance against plan, prior periods and prior forecasts, and evaluating current and future performance trajectory
Compiles financial information from a Line of Business (LOB) and consolidated perspective for presentation to stakeholders
Develops financial management dashboards, reports, presentations, ad hoc analysis, and research using Microsoft Office Suite and Emerging Technology tools
Collaborates with teams across the Finance division to ensure integrity of the financials, sound controls, and efficient and effective procedures with limited oversight
Supports new and ongoing projects and strategic initiatives by helping to create new processes to automate key reporting capabilities and delivering on process improvements and simplifications to enable increased focus on strategic priorities
Exhibits strong attention to detail and applies analytical thinking and problem solving to deliverables while collaborating with key stakeholders and partners
Preparation of the enterprise-wide incentive compensation forecast including coordination among the HR compensation team and line of business (LOB) finance teams.
Analysis of performance variance and drivers across all lines of business.
Preparation of reporting and analysis to aid board level decisions.
Preparation of incentive and capital inputs into the enterprise stress testing process
Ad-hoc analysis, including research and analysis for HR teams and LOB finance partners.