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Program Governance Sr. Financial Analyst- Financial & Regulatory Reporting Control Oversight

Charlotte, North Carolina

Job Description:

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General Job Description:

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.

General Responsibilities:

• 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

Line of Business Job Description:

The primary responsibility is to execute of enterprise-wide Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Program, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Program, the FR Y-14 CFO Attestation Program, and the Broker-Dealer and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Internal Control Programs.

Line of Business Responsibilities:

• Establish and execute robust internal control frameworks that support external reporting across all in-scope mandates (SOX, FRY-14, B/D, & ESG). This includes activities that include, as appropriate, setting materiality, determining scope, identifying relevant processes, risk and controls, assessing deficiencies, executing sub-certifications and associated governance activities, as well as ensuring high quality of documentation maintained in the system of record

• Provide strategic planning and thought leadership across SOX Program, FR Y-14 CFO Attestation Program, Broker-Dealer, ESG Internal Control Programs and Operational Risk and Controls Oversight (ORCO) projects as a whole

• Drive Operational Excellence and/or respond to changing business environment and revise methodologies and processes as appropriate

• Support the implementation and evolution of the enterprise internal control framework for ESG external reporting. Contributor to ESG Disclosure Committee

• Collaborate with Risk, Corporate Audit, external auditors for the SOX program

• Develop capability to lead a global team; collaborating and communicating with key senior stakeholders, escalating items of note and preparing communications to senior executives, including the CAO, CFO, Chief Auditor

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3-5 years accounting/finance experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills

• Strong written and oral communication, presentation, analytical and technical skills

• Highly organized and attention to detail 

• Excellent relationship management skills and ability to influence outside of direct team, collaborate with different stakeholders, and drive and implement changes

• Analytical and problem solving abilities

• Strong initiative and drive for results

• Understanding of US GAAP, COSO principles, SOX 404 and 302 as well as FDICIA requirements

• Control testing experience

• Experience in managing multiple and often competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

• Strong intellectual curiosity, analytical mindset and observation ability for thematic analysis and keen attention to detail

• Operational excellence approach through determining oversight enhancements needed and collaborating on efforts to advance tools, technology, and ways of working

• Displays persistence and tenacity in reviewing and challenging methodology and processes

Desired Qualifications:

• CPA professional certification

• Experience with leading enterprise oversight programs/functions

• Intermediate to strong Alteryx skills

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

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40

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