Sr. Financial Analyst Resume
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Long Island City, NY
SUMMARY
- Advanced financial and goal modeling skills
- Exceptional analytical and problem - solving skills
- Strong ability to manipulate, merge and reconcile large data sets from varying sources
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Strong collaboration and business relationship building skills
- Excellent time management skills including ability to handle multiple projects with aggressive deadlines
- Motivated self-starter with solid work ethic, ability to manage change, and a “can-do” attitude
- Proven ability to provide value-add analysis in a fast-paced business environment
- Highly organized with strong attention to detail
- Thrives in a team or independent work environment
- In-depth knowledge of consumer, business, investment and lending products
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products
- strong Excel (formulas, pivot tables, V-lookup)
- Oracle SQL Developer
- Mac/PC desktop systems
- QlikView Report Writer/Retrieval Application
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Long Island City, NY
Vice President/Sr. Financial Analyst IV
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain robust financial models to quantify workload within sales territories
- Work closely with business partners to establish annual top-of-house sales goals for all products
- Run correlation, distribution and standard deviation analyses to test current performance and new sales metrics
- Analyze sales performance, identify areas for improvement, and recommend optimal alignment of goals
- Ensure fair allocation of sales goals to nearly 700 U.S. branch offices by testing and applying highly correlated metrics
- Monitor sales performance and periodically re-calibrate sales goals as required due to internal/external factors
- Work closely with marketing team to align sales goals to new products and other campaigns
- Perform “Deep Dive” analyses of multiple division, area and branch sales performance and present to Sr. Mgt.
- Prepare PowerPoint decks including trend analysis, “what’s working” and “what’s not working,” and provide solutions including new goal methodologies, re-allocation scenarios, and new sales incentives
- Focus on continued improvement to refine and optimize goal setting methodology to enhance performance
- Lead bi-annual exercise to ensure accurate staffing levels across sales territories for goal setting purposes
- Provide support to Division Managers and Area and Sales Directors to identify and resolve sales related issues
- Prepare ad hoc analyses and assist in the development of sales reports, scorecards, and Oracle database
Confidential, Lake Success, NY
First Assistant Vice President/Sr. Mgr. Performance Measurement & Data Mgt
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for creating and managing the Incentive Compensation Program, including the design and maintenance of all financial models, expense accrual management, performance reporting for all business entities within the Retail Banking Division, and ensuring accurate payout of Incentive Awards in a timely manner
- Assist in the development of short and long-term strategic business plans
- Responsible for preparing and maintaining Retail Banking, Financial Services, and Business Banking Capital, Salary, Headcount, and Operating Budgets utilizing financial models varying in complexity
- Prepare and analyze budget performance reports, identifying and explaining significant variances
- Develop and prepare comparative and varying scenario analyses, profitability projections, and recommendations for revenue improvement and cost reduction
- Analyze and present division performance through various presentations and recurring Senior Management meetings
- Accountable for planning and maintaining Sarbanes-Oxley Narratives, Test Plans, and coordinating all testing
- Direct, motivate and develop Jr. Manager and staff of Sr. & Jr. Financial Analysts
- Ensure efficient operation of systems utilized to service over $14.5B in mortgage & consumer loans
- Direct, motivate and train staff of Systems Administrator and Senior Business Systems Analysts
- Prepare and administer combined budgets of more than $6MM for all Loan Servicing business entities
- Accountable for managing income and expense accruals, and forecasting loan loss reserves
- Ensure departmental compliance with FDICIA & Sarbanes-Oxley requirements
- Responsible for managing Mortgage Servicing Rights (MSR) asset of more than $27MM, including valuing, analyzing, reconciling, and preparing Executive Management report packages
- Maintain Disaster Recovery Plan and coordinate offsite testing