Onsite Allocations Lead Finance Analyst

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About the role

  • Allocations Lead Finance Analyst role at Wells Fargo responsible for financial reporting and analysis. Collaborating with finance leaders and providing insights into financial data and allocations.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain and automate standard monthly allocations reporting for finance leaders and finance team; requires extensive data reconciliation as well as analysis
  • Establish and maintain effective and efficient reporting delivery that meets brand standard and internal control standards
  • Act as the trusted partner and subject matter expert by conducting in-depth research and analysis of financial data to resolve complex issues
  • Communicate insights, findings and recommendations to business partners promptly for decision making
  • Excellent client communication skills to partner with business partners in a global environment consisting of multiple senior stakeholders to drive outcomes
  • Provide financial insights and commentary highlighting actual vs forecast/budget variances to highlight risk and opportunities and drive cost efficiency
  • Understand the allocation process and ensure drivers and methodologies yield appropriate allocations to line of businesses and legal entities
  • Drive continuous improvement through simplification, standardization and automation
  • Document procedures to ensure effective repeatable processes and data sharing between teams

Requirements

  • 5+ years of Finance experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education
  • Exceptional Essbase, Excel, PowerPoint skills and strong knowledge of using pivot tables, v-lookups, tracing formulas, and running macros
  • Bachelor's/Master’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or Economics; CA/CFA/MBA a plus
  • Experience in finance or accounting roles, including monthly close, management reporting, monthly business review decks; allocation experience is a plus
  • Ability to perform complex analysis, build financial models, draw conclusions and communicate recommendations to business leaders
  • Knowledge of key tools like Power BI or Tableau is a plus
  • Ability to prepare executive level presentations and management reporting
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret complex financial data, trends and patterns along with high level of accuracy and attention to detail
  • Self-starter with exceptional critical thinking skills combined with a strategic business focus; can recognize issues and implement solutions with minimal guidance
  • Ability to evaluate allocation processes and continuously look for efficiency and effectiveness opportunities
  • Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines
  • Sense of urgency with ability to adapt to fast changing priorities and timelines
  • Excellent communication skills (oral and written) for regular connections with leaders and broader finance team, organizational skills, and experience articulating issues, risks, and proposed solutions to management
  • Exhibits initiative, curiosity and independence
  • Showcased leadership skills, good judgement, and accountability in prior roles
  • Develops and uses checklists to ensure that information goes out error-free through utilizing controls in process for cross-checking outputs before submission. Accurately gauges the impact and cost of errors, omissions, and oversights.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off

Job title

Allocations Lead Finance Analyst

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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