Finance Manager - Business Support

Job Description:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day. Being a Great Place to Work and providing a culture of caring is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. We are intentional about fostering an inclusive workplace where every teammate has the opportunity to succeed, build a career and contribute to our shared success. This includes attracting and developing exceptional talent, recognizing and rewarding performance, and supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness through affordable, competitive and flexible benefits. We value the unique perspectives individuals bring from all backgrounds and career paths - whether shaped by military service, community college education, or a wide range of work and life experiences. These journeys foster resilience, leadership and innovation, strengthening our workforce and positively impact the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture that supports collaboration, engagement, and career development. Our approach includes clear in-office expectations, while providing an appropriate level of flexibility based on role-specific responsibilities and business needs. At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Description:
This job is responsible for serving as a finance partner to specified Lines of Business (LOBs) and directing the day-to-day finance activities to manage strategic annual planning and implementation. Key responsibilities include performing forecasting, profitability analysis, expense efficiency, pricing, financial reporting, and overseeing value creation ideas and new investment business cases. Job expectations include supporting management in key decision making, and influencing and gaining support from financial analysts.

Responsibilities:

• Oversees the financial analysis and reporting needed to provide Line of Business (LOB) and finance leadership with trends and comparisons on all financial matters, focusing on maximizing revenue growth, cost management, profitability, cash flow generation, and operational improvement
• Reviews LOBs financial performances and provides strategic direction to teams by assisting with synthesizing key trends, assessing current and future business risks, and preparing, analyzing, and reporting on financial results and key metrics
• Manages forecasting and/or budgeting and compares current performance against plan, prior periods, and forecasts to evaluate current and future performance trajectory
• Delegates and provides oversight to teams building financial management reports, presentations, and ad hoc analyses for LOBs and/or finance partners
• Implements new and ongoing projects and strategic initiatives by helping to create new processes to automate key reporting capabilities and delivering on process improvements and simplifications to enable increased focus on strategic priorities
• Builds, maintains, and manages partner relationships across the Finance division and implements policies and procedures that ensure integrity of the financials, sound controls, and effective procedures
• Build and run analytics on technology volumes to drive proactive insights around technology cost drivers and provide transparency around technology infrastructure expenses
• Run Benchmarking for technology infrastructure products and other consumable products across CTI and EET to identify areas of cost improvement opportunities
• Support product costing and the tech allocations annual update to align tech costs to products, AITs and LOBs
• Support FinOps activities to improve management of internal and external consumption based costs

Managerial Responsibilities:
This position may also have responsibilities for managing associates. At Bank of America, all managers at this level demonstrate the following responsibilities, in addition to those specific to the role, listed above.

• Opportunity & Inclusion Champion: Models an inclusive environment for employees and clients, aligned to company Great Place to Work goals.
• Manager of Process & Data: Demonstrates deep process knowledge, operational excellence and innovation through a focus on simplicity, data based decision making and continuous improvement.
• Enterprise Advocate & Communicator: Communicates enterprise decisions, purpose, and results, and connects to team strategy, priorities and contributions.
• Risk Manager: Ensures proper risk discipline, controls and culture are in place to identify, escalate and debate issues.
• People Manager & Coach: Provides inspection, coaching and feedback to motivate, differentiate and improve performance.
• Financial Steward: Actively manages expenses and budgets in alignment with objectives, making sound financial decisions.
• Enterprise Talent Leader: Assesses talent and builds bench strength for roles across the organization.
• Driver of Business Outcomes: Delivers results by effectively prioritizing, inspecting and appropriately delegating team work.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience in Financial Management, Financial Analysis or equivalent experience
• Strategic thinker with the ability to understand and identify business challenges and how business needs are changing and then to proactively develop analysis to support change
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to take large sets of data and develop executive level analysis, insights and recommendations based on the data
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to make effective presentations and communicate complex concepts in a succinct way
• Strong Excel, PowerPoint and Copilot skills

Desired Qualifications:

• BS or BA in Business Management, Finance, Accounting, Economics or equivalent
• Ability to independently problem solve, apply reason, take initiative, and use sound judgement
• Conceptual (although not necessarily deep technical) understanding of technology infrastructure and/or FinOps
• Experience with cost allocations
• Considers E2E process impact when evaluating opportunities/challenges

Skills:

• Business Process Analysis
• Collaboration
• Data Quality Management
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Management
• Analytical Thinking
• Critical Thinking
• Data Visualization
• Decision Making
• Prioritization
• Business Acumen
• Business Case Analysis
• Financial Forecasting and Modeling
• Project Management
• Reporting

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