EXPERIENCE

Sr. Associate

PRIMARY ADDRESS

McLean, Virginia
Overview
Senior Financial Analyst, Card Central OpEx Finance
The Card Services Finance team, within Card Finance, is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Central OpEx Finance team. The Central OpEx Finance team is responsible for supporting the Card organization, including analysis, forecasting and reporting for Total Card Operating Expense, as well as performing ad hoc analysis to drive efficiencies within the space. This role includes data analysis, forecasting, and strategic partnership with the business and across Finance, where storytelling on top of the deep understanding of OpEx will be needed. The ideal candidate is someone who is analytically curious, enjoys financial analytics, and is excited to help drive an important aspect of the Card business.
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will work for a company that invests in ways to tell stories, view trends, and diagnose results in a more compelling and visual nature. You will have the opportunity to partner with business customers on driving strategic business direction that leads to sustainable performance and you will be asked to challenge our current well-managed processes to be more proactive, effective and efficient.
Senior Financial Analysts perform financial data analysis in preparing Profit & Loss or other statements and frequently build reports for higher level associates; provide management and business clients with project statuses; perform reporting and analysis to support presentation and ad-hoc requests.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
• At least 2 years’ experience in financial analysis
• At least 2 years’ experience with financial modeling

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA) or Master’s Degree in Finance
• Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) license or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license
• 3+ years’ experience in financial analysis
• 3+ years’ experience with financial modeling
• 1+ years’ experience in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint

THE ROLE REQUIRES STRONG COMMUNICATION, PROBLEM SOLVING, STRATEGIC THINKING, AND INFLUENCING SKILLS IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY:

• Articulate outcomes of analysis and relevant insights
• Develop presentations to communicate business and analysis results to senior audiences

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Financial reporting and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial reporting, and Profit & Loss (P&L) management
• Collaborate with system analysts to maintain and develop system to house models
• Coordinate and collect input data from Financial Analysts in different departments, check data integrity, summarize and convert data, run models, verify, analyze, and communicate output data
• Assist in development of business presentations to communicate analysis results to senior audiences, clearly articulate outcomes of analysis to leadership teams
• Independently manage and prioritize workload
• Perform financial data analysis in preparing Profit & Loss or other financial statements
• Frequently create reports for senior management
• Provide management and business clients with project statuses
• Perform reporting and analysis to support presentation and ad-hoc requests