Senior AVP - Senior Finance Analyst

About this role:
Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Business Aligned Finance Analyst
In this role, you will:

• Lead or participate in moderately complex initiatives as a technical professional
• Provide a broad expertise and unique skills used to develop company objectives and standards for a specific business unit, division, or product
• Review and analyze moderately complex data that contributes to large scale planning such as economic research in support of management decision making for a specific business unit, division, or product
• Research key forecasting projections as well as management of financial reporting to support monthly and quarterly forecasting
• Perform work on significant and unique issues involving data and evaluation or highly complex situations
• Develop strategies and make recommendations for forward financial planning in support of line of business goals
• Lead the implementation of moderately complex projects impacting one or more lines of business
• Establish effective and efficient reporting delivery that meets brand standard and internal control standards
• Collaborate and consult with peers, colleagues, and mid-level managers in finance and in a given line of business to resolve issues and achieve goals
• Exercise independent judgment while leveraging a solid understanding of the knowledge policies, procedures, and compliance requirements within the function

Required Qualifications:

• 4+ years of Finance experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

• MBA (or) Cost & Management Accountant (or) Chartered Financial Analyst with post-qualification experience.
• Candidate must have hands on experience in LOB / segment / product reporting / management reporting / dashboard / presentations / Analytics / commentary.
• Candidate should have good exposure to handling work flow applications, be good with BO and or BI Tools and or similar applications. Good expertise in Data Lineage, data flow / architecture and data quality.
• Candidate should have essbase, Hyperion, Cognos and should be a subject matter expert in data retrievals from different cubes. ( Must to have)
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, Macros, Business Intelligence tools and Power point.
• Proficiency in AI framework and tools adoption (e.g. python, copilot, gen AI), data querying (SQL), advanced analytics platforms (Power BI, SAS, tableau)
• Use DAX queries and functions in Power BI / Tableau to create dashboards and interactive visual reports
• Design, develop and deploy business intelligence solutions with SQL queries to get the data
• Good understanding of Accounting and preferably knowledge of US GAAP is an additional advantage.
• Financial Services (brokerage in particular) Industry experience strongly preferred.
• Certification in SAS, Python, Power BI, Power App

Job Expectations:

• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills combined with strategic business focus and ability to lead from the front.
• Reputation for being a highly responsive individual who thrives on achieving results in a large, complex, diverse organization; who respects the culture, is flexible and adaptable.
• Candidate should be a subject matter expert on FP&A and should be good with the numbers, ability to break the information into meaningful data points, good story writing and commentary skills.
• Candidate should be conversant with all the headcount, FTE related reports and should be able to bring in high quality analytics and insights on the same.
• Candidate should possess very strong KPI, metrics related reporting and should be able to independently deliver all metrics (financial and non -financial) related data and analytics.
• Candidate should have good stakeholder engagement skills and should have excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Candidate should have good financial acumen and come out with good strategic/ go forward data /analytic support and support the business teams.
• Interact / coordinate with different teams to proactively raise any specific issues or challenges around the business and work independently with the concerned teams to resolve issues.
• Candidate should be good with financial modelling, budgeting, forecasting, understand process changes and be good with research and query handling.
• Candidate should have good automation and transformation skills, especially in the space of reporting tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or other business intelligence applications.
• Utilize AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to automate reporting, generate insights, commentaries and improve decision-making.
• Ability to use AI/ML and GenAI initiatives, contributing to model development, integration, and deployment
• Stay current on emerging technologies in AI to support the divisions strategy discussion for future capability development
• Advanced knowledge of enterprise tools like MS Copilot with a strong understanding of prompt engineering.
• Experience with ERP and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) to generate analysis and reports

Posting End Date:
18 Jan 2026
*Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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