Finance Segment/Region Liaison Sr. is responsible for producing monthly forecasting, reporting, and analysis for Mortgage and Consumer Lending Segment portfolio.  This role is a fast paced, deadline driven position, often requiring participation or leading of large complex projects. This individual will work closely with the Segment CFO and FP&A Team as well as Treasury and Balance Sheet Management.

Duties & Responsibilities:            

• Partner with Segment FP&A team to create and continually enhance monthly driver based forecast for loan balances and related income.
• Provide monthly variance analysis of performance vs. forecast, budget and prior month. 
• Champion the build-out of robust loan forecasting capabilities in new EPM environment.
• Support monthly delivery of Financial Performance Review reports
• Lead and complete special projects in support of leadership and company strategies with a focus on impact profitability and returns.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

                              
Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Business or Finance discipline required.
• 7 years supporting financial systems and data that includes providing leadership to others.

Preferred Qualifications:                       

• Experience in Financial Planning and Analysis strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge depth in financial reporting tools (e.g., Essbase) and strong Excel modeling skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interface with any levels of management, up to and including the Executive level.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Understand the concept of materiality (i.e., knows when information is relevant)
• Solid foundational understanding of major financial concepts including balance sheet, ledger, revenue and expenses.
• Strong technical skillset in at least one relational database platform a plus (SAS, MS SQL, Oracle, or IBM db2).
• Ability to proactively manage issues and assignments, and move work forward with limited direction.
• Capable of establishing and managing changing priorities.
• Flexibility to work some evenings and weekends as required to meet critical deadlines or business needs.