As a Finance and Business Management Senior Associate in Home Lending Finance, you will be responsible for identifying, escalating, and mitigating business risks, managing financial planning activities, providing business rationale for financial performance and forecasting, and influencing business strategy. You will also manage annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting. In this role, you will have the opportunity to influence and shape business strategy by acting as a counterweight to Home Lending Operations Executives.
Job responsibilities:
- Manage annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas, providing business rationale and decisions for all month-end financial performance and forecasting
- Analyze financial performance, including expenses and headcount; identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation
- Create financial business cases supporting business initiatives and align with business on implementation strategies
- Report on and monitor key metrics, driving data quality initiatives across the product area, and helping define future needs of the product area
- Develop and track business operations headcount capacity plans
- Create presentations with effective storytelling, and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
- Perform variance analysis to understand the key drivers of financial results and present to senior leaders
Required Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or a subject of a technical nature
- 4+ years of Financial Services, and/or accounting/controller experience
- Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with data mining/gathering and manipulation of data sets
- Ability to create ad hoc reporting for senior management
- Proven track record for executing on special projects / assignments, often with little lead time or information
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
Preferred Qualifications, Skills, and Capabilities:
- Able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
- Team player with the ability to be respected as a trusted partner for the Business, Finance, and FP&A Teams
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Inquisitive, enthusiastic and diligent, and capable of challenging peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex issues clearly