Ameriprise Financial has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our team! In this role, you will conduct business performance analysis, incorporating trend analysis to assess business implications, with a strong focus on analyzing and managing data to support business decisions. The Senior Financial Analyst will be the subject matter expert of typical data sources, with the ability to readily access data to complete and support information requests. You will also independently build, maintain, and modify models used in forecasting, planning, and decision support.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent) in a financial or quantitative field
• 3-5 years of proven experience
• Previous experience in financial or analytical role.
• Consistently demonstrates the ability to complete financial modeling tasks and financial analysis using spreadsheets and/or other tools.
• Experience applying accounting and financial concepts to interpret and solve business problems.
• Able to build outputs that support decisions.
• Strong communication skills, with ability to verbally present findings to management.
• Ability to complete advanced financial modeling tasks and financial analysis using spreadsheets and/or other tools.
• Must have strong interpersonal and business skills to support CBA and new advisor offer processes.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• May have MBA or other advanced degree/certification.
• Banking industry experience
• Experience in building relationships that influence and establish credibility across an organization – to business partners, senior finance leadership, other finance areas, etc.

• Create routine reporting by driving variance analysis – focus on providing business context. Assist in developing commentary around business results. Perform independent analysis using multiple data sources to derive root cause and track benefits of past.
• Develop, improve, and run forecasting/planning models and perform variance analysis.
• Independently develop simple to sophisticated models to forecast the future implication of business decisions. Independently perform postmortem analysis of impact of past business decisions. Coherently review forecasts and analyses with management. Review CBA’s (Cost Benefit Analysis) and identify issues to be resolved prior to approval.