Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis

BNY; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

BNY is seeking a Vice President of Workforce Planning in New York to drive workforce strategy, headcount planning, and senior decision support within the Engineering F&BM organization. This role combines finance, talent, and business strategy to guide investments aligned with financial targets and transformation objectives.

Responsibilities include headcount forecasting, scenario analysis, and partnering with engineering leadership to align plans with budgets and cycles, while delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) preferred.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience preferred.
• Strong background in workforce planning, financial planning and analysis, management reporting, or organizational strategy preferred.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to translate workforce data into business insights and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support workforce planning activities for Engineering, including headcount forecasting, hiring demand, attrition assumptions, and organizational capacity analysis.
• Partner with Engineering F&BM leadership to align workforce plans with budget, forecast, and strategic planning cycles.
• Develop robust headcount and workforce models to support annual planning, quarterly forecasts, and ad hoc scenario analysis.
• Provide insights on workforce drivers including hiring pipeline, vacancy trends, contractor mix, internal mobility, productivity, and span/layer considerations.
• Support decision making on role prioritization, location strategy, resourcing trade-offs, and investment allocation across engineering teams.
• Analyze workforce-related financial impacts, including compensation trends, open roles, run-rate implications, and variance to plan.
• Collaborate with Finance and the People Team to ensure workforce assumptions are accurate, consistent, and aligned across planning processes.
• Prepare materials for senior management reviews, including workforce updates, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations.
• Identify structural risks and opportunities in the workforce model, including critical skills gaps, capacity constraints, and efficiency opportunities.
• Drive enhancements to workforce reporting, governance, and planning processes to improve transparency and decision support.
• Contribute to broader organizational planning and support leadership decision-making on strategic workforce investments.
• Operate independently on complex workforce analyses and planning initiatives.

Skills

Workforce planning

Financial planning & analysis

Management reporting

Organizational strategy

Analytical & modeling skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, Business, or related field

MBA or advanced degree preferred

Job description

Job Description The Vice President, Workforce Planning plays a key role within Engineering F&BM, driving workforce strategy, headcount planning, and organizational decision support for the engineering organization. This role sits at the intersection of finance, talent, and business strategy, helping leadership make informed workforce investment decisions that align with financial targets, operating priorities, and longer-term transformation objectives. The position requires a strong understanding of financial planning, resource forecasting, organizational structures, and management reporting, along with the ability to translate workforce data into practical recommendations for senior leadership.

Job Description The Vice President, Workforce Planning plays a key role within Engineering F&BM, driving workforce strategy, headcount planning, and organizational decision support for the engineering organization. This role sits at the intersection of finance, talent, and business strategy, helping leadership make informed workforce investment decisions that align with financial targets, operating priorities, and longer-term transformation objectives. The position requires a strong understanding of financial planning, resource forecasting, organizational structures, and management reporting, along with the ability to translate workforce data into practical recommendations for senior leadership. We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Vice President to join our Engineering F&BM team. This role is located in New York.

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Support workforce planning activities for Engineering, including headcount forecasting, hiring demand, attrition assumptions, and organizational capacity analysis.
• Partner with Engineering F&BM leadership to align workforce plans with budget, forecast, and strategic planning cycles.
• Develop robust headcount and workforce models to support annual planning, quarterly forecasts, and ad hoc scenario analysis.
• Provide insights on workforce drivers including hiring pipeline, vacancy trends, contractor mix, internal mobility, productivity, and span/layer considerations.
• Support decision making on role prioritization, location strategy, resourcing trade-offs, and investment allocation across engineering teams.
• Analyze workforce-related financial impacts, including compensation trends, open roles, run-rate implications, and variance to plan.
• Collaborate with Finance and the People Team to ensure workforce assumptions are accurate, consistent, and aligned across planning processes.
• Prepare materials for senior management reviews, including workforce updates, risks, opportunities, and strategic recommendations.
• Identify structural risks and opportunities in the workforce model, including critical skills gaps, capacity constraints, and efficiency opportunities.
• Drive enhancements to workforce reporting, governance, and planning processes to improve transparency and decision support.
• Contribute to broader organizational planning and support leadership decision-making on strategic workforce investments.
• Operate independently on complex workforce analyses and planning initiatives.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Business, or a related field.
• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA) preferred.
• 6-8 years of relevant experience preferred.
• Strong background in workforce planning, financial planning and analysis, management reporting, or organizational strategy preferred.
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, with the ability to translate workforce data into business insights and recommendations.

Additional Information

• No direct reports initially, with opportunities to expand scope as the role evolves.

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Our Benefits And Rewards

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.
BNY is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Underrepresented racial and ethnic groups/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
BNY assesses market data to ensure a competitive compensation package for our employees. The expected base salary for this position when employment commences can be found in the Job Info section at the bottom of the posting.
Base salary offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Base salary is only part of the total rewards package, which may include eligibility for an annual discretionary incentive award. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan as well as participate in Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Eligible employees also may receive other benefits (including various paid time off benefits, such as vacation and sick time), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.
If hired, the employee will be in an “at will” position and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payments or compensation programs) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.