Bank Of America Senior Financial Analyst – Business Support 

United States, North Carolina, Charlotte 

238658289

This job is responsible for serving as a finance partner to specified Lines of Business (LOBs) and providing financial analysis and guidance to support key decisions and initiatives. Key responsibilities include performing forecasting, profitability analysis, expense efficiency, pricing, financial reporting, and generating value creation ideas and new investment business cases. Job expectations include preparing insights to guide management's decision making and evaluating financial performance versus plans, forecasts, and prior periods.

Responsibilities:

The teammate in this role will be responsible for being the finance support partner for several leaders within the Global Operations organization. The primary focus of the role will include expense management responsibilities such as:

• End to end finance ownership for the groups supported including month-end close, forecasting and reporting, stress testing and expense allocations.
• Preparing, analyzing, reviewing, and submitting monthly accruals
• Creating new processes and innovating on best practices to support the business as a strategic finance and control partner.
• Proactivecommunicating/partneringwith BFOs, LOBs, and other supporting groups.
• Proactively searching for opportunities to automate key functions/reports and eliminate unnecessary work.
• Evaluates Lines of Business (LOB) financial performances and assists with decision making by synthesizing key trends, assessing current and future business risks, and preparing, analyzing, and reporting on financial results and key metrics.
• Develops financial management reports, presentations, and ad hoc analyses for LOBs and/or finance partners.
• Creates forecasts and budgets by comparing current performance against plan, prior periods, prior forecasts, and budgets and evaluating current and future performance trajectory.
• Supports reporting and analysis for key constituents and management, which may include Board of Directors, Investor Relations, and/or various regulatory agencies.
• Collaborates with teams across the Finance division to ensure integrity of the financials, sound controls, and efficient and effective procedures.
• Supports new and ongoing projects and strategic initiatives by creating processes to automate key reporting capabilities and delivering on process improvements and simplifications to enable increased focus on strategic priorities.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience with financial planning, analysis and reporting
• Bachelor's degree in Accounting / Finance or relevant work experience
• Advanced Excel, modeling, data manipulation
• Strong communication, organization, presentation, and leadership skills
• 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. Understanding of accounting concepts (debits / credits, accruals).

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience in the following:
• ForecastConnect
• SAP/eLedger
• GEP
• Tableau
• Power Query
• Alteryx
• Applies business knowledge to solve business problems and create new opportunities.
• Financial statement analysis experience

Skills:

• Attention to Detail
• Business Process Analysis
• Collaboration
• Data Quality Management
• Reporting
• Data Visualization
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling
• Financial Processing
• Prioritization
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Business Case Analysis
• Critical Thinking
• Decision Making