Financial Analyst

Job Description

Financial Analyst – Financial Strategy | U.S. Bank

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at U.S. Bank, requiring a hybrid presence at a U.S. Bank location. U.S. Bank focuses on helping customers and businesses make smarter financial decisions and enabling communities to grow and succeed. This role is crucial for supporting financial strategy, enabling disciplined decision-making, and driving execution across business units that contribute to community success. It involves organizing strategic conversations, developing decision-ready materials, and building analytical tools to connect business initiatives with financial outcomes.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – U.S. Bank location
• Pay: $86360–$101600 yearly
• Team: U.S. Bank Finance, supporting Impact Finance business leaders
• Mission: This person solves the problem of connecting business initiatives to short- and long-term financial outcomes through organized strategic conversations and analytical tools.
• Tech Stack: Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, AI

What You’ll Actually Do
• Strategic Cadence: Develop and maintain a strategic conversation calendar that establishes a consistent rhythm for leadership discussions, initiative reviews, decision points, and follow-up actions.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate inputs, timelines, and stakeholders to ensure strategic topics are addressed at the appropriate time with complete and accurate information.
• Material Preparation: Prepare discussion materials, executive summaries, presentations, briefing notes, and data-driven narratives that clearly connect financial results and operational facts to business implications for leaders.
• Business Case Development: Build and maintain a standardized business case template and supporting process for consistently evaluating strategic initiatives.
• Performance Tracking: Track approved business cases against actual results, forecasts, milestones, and original assumptions, identifying variances, risks, opportunities, and required actions.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent work experience in financial analysis, planning, accounting, or business analytics.
• Experience: Three or more years of related experience, including the ability to build and maintain financial models incorporating revenue, expense, timing, investment, and profitability assumptions.
• Skills: Strong Excel and PowerPoint proficiency; well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills to identify trends, investigate variances, and resolve data exceptions; strong written and verbal communication skills to simplify complex information for leadership; strong organizational skills and attention to detail to manage deliverables and priorities.
• Bonus: Experience with Power BI or other data visualization tools; curiosity, initiative, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach to working across teams.