Finance Manager – Mortgage, Vehicle, & Specialty Operations

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 is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

Job Summary:
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.

Line of Business Job Description:

The Global Operations Finance team is part of the Global Technology and Global Operations (GT & GO) Finance organization. The primary focus of this role is to be the strategic finance partner for the Mortgage, Vehicle, & Specialty Operations team.  This role will partner with operations executive leadership to provide strategic business advice/counsel and manage all aspects of the financials.  Success in this position will involve partnering across CFO, HR, and throughout the Mortgage, Vehicle, & Specialty Operations organization to be a strategic advisor for the team.  This role will develop business/operations acumen, gain exposure to the Global Operations strategic roadmap, and have the opportunity to regularly influence business outcomes. 

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

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:

• 8+ years of accounting or financial analysis work experience

• Strong communication, organization, presentation, analytical and leadership skills

• Analytical Abilities / Financial Acumen - Systematic application of a combination of inductive and deductive reasoning to examine information, interpret results and arrive at well-founded logical conclusions. 

• Builds Partnerships - Builds broad-based business relationships across the organization.  Skillfully influences peers and colleagues to promote and sell ideas.  Proactively surfaces and resolves conflict with efficiency. 

• Organization and the ability to juggle multiple tasks and responsibilities

• Strong business acumen

Desired Qualifications:

• BS/BA – Finance/Accounting/Business preferred

• Familiarity with suite of CFO automation tools (e.g., Alteryx, FactSet, Tableau, Workiva)  

• Forecast and planning experience

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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