Senior Finance Analyst - Public Affairs

at  Wells Fargo

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WELLS FARGO RECRUITMENT AND HIRING REQUIREMENTS:

a. Third-Party recordings are prohibited unless authorized by Wells Fargo.
b. Wells Fargo requires you to directly represent your own experiences during the recruiting and hiring process

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Finance experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, educatio

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in forecasting, accounting, analytics within banking/financial services industry
• Prior experience consulting, influencing, and partnering with business executives
• Ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into executive level communications
• Proficiency in reporting databases, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Tableau or PowerBi), and Essbase
• Strong presentation skills
• Assess stakeholder needs and build effective relationships
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
• Proven leadership in developing and delivering on innovative and efficient solutions
• Demonstrated experience in driving organizational change and influencing colleagues through changing requirements and vision
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to effectively operate in a complex, matrixed environmen

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Finance Analyst for the Public Affairs Finance Team. This team is responsible for providing proactive leadership and consultative support to enhance business intelligence and drive improvements in processes and in alignment with overall function and company objectives.

In this role, you will:

• Lead processes for budgeting, forecasting, close reporting, cost allocations, and analysis.
• Focus on high quality interactions with the business and strive for transparency with partners to provide exceptional strategic support
• Strategic advice - focused articulate key messages and insights, along with credible challenge, informed by strong business knowledge.
• Develop and evaluate solutions across a wide range of financial challenges
• Leader engagement - active interactions, with mix of communications frequency, method and content based on leader scope, complexity and tenure; balanced to both inform and challenge.
• Forecast/Budget/Business reviews - meaningful updates, timely and efficient execution, relevant and focused business review materials and other leader reporting.
• Develop strategies and make recommendations for forward financial planning
• Expense analysis and reductions - researching and analyzing headcount, personnel costs, third party spend, travel and other costs that provide insights for supporting and influencing leader decisions.
• Synthesize accurate information from financial data and summarize critical points in a clear, presentation-ready format
• Indirect expenses & allocations -reporting and analysis (incoming and outgoing); assessment of drivers for improved clarity of controllability. Understand current methodologies, impacts, taxonomy, services, and review & update as appropriate across all of Public Affairs.
• Risk management - proactive adherence to policies and practice, including Models/EUCTs, legal entities, records retention, accounting/accruals, required training, etc.

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Finance experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in forecasting, accounting, analytics within banking/financial services industry
• Prior experience consulting, influencing, and partnering with business executives
• Ability to synthesize complex analytical findings into executive level communications
• Proficiency in reporting databases, Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, and Tableau or PowerBi), and Essbase
• Strong presentation skills
• Assess stakeholder needs and build effective relationships
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills
• Proven leadership in developing and delivering on innovative and efficient solutions
• Demonstrated experience in driving organizational change and influencing colleagues through changing requirements and vision
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with high attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to effectively operate in a complex, matrixed environment

Job Expectations:

• This position offers a hybrid work schedule
• Required to work in the listed locations
• Position is not Visa eligible
• Position does not offer relocation assistance