Banking Financial Analyst/Manager

Email this job



Blue Player Job OverviewCompany: Robert Half Finance & Accounting U.S.Location: US-IL-ChicagoBase Pay: N/AEmployee Type: Full-TimeIndustry: Accounting - Finance
Banking - Financial ServicesManages Others: Not SpecifiedJob Type: Accounting
FinanceReq'd Education: Not SpecifiedReq'd Experience: At least 4 year(s)Req'd Travel: Not SpecifiedRelocation Covered: Not Specified Contact: RecruiterPhone: 312-616-8200Fax: 312-616-1807 Ref ID: 01300-139317 Job DescriptionClassification:  Financial Business Analyst

Compensation:  DOE

POSITION SUMMARY:
Seeking a strong candidate with experience and passion to fill a Financial Institutions Practice
Area Senior Analyst position. This professional will support the
Financial Institution Practice Team, Retail Banking topic, through managing and processing research
requests, assisting consultants with industry specific problems, working closely with case teams and
providing analysis to drive insight into specific client issues.
The Financial Institutions Practice Area Senior Analyst will interact with both local and international
teams and use an extensive collection of internal and external information resources to gather, filter,
synthesize, package and deliver information to case teams and clients. This professional will participate
in and manage Financial Institutions Practice Area topics and projects under the guidance of senior
Financial Institutions Practice Area members from consulting team and senior staff.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
Team with case teams for client work, Sometimes as full case team member (typically at partial capacity); joins client meetings as credible expert; takes positions and draws conclusions on a range of external and
internal issues, Takes initiative to ensure proposal or client teams put their best foot forward; connects
people and suggest most appropriate products, tools, and analytics, works with the FI Retail Banking network and senior staff to build intellectual property for the retail banking business (databases, data models, etc.) Draws conclusions and synthesizes results across multiple work streams, and
communicates these effectively. Assists others in navigating the knowledge network by connecting them with materials and people. Provides guidance to other staff and consulting staff on complex research requests and topic-related issues; puts requests into context, provides richness of expertise. Supports development of the FI practice. Identifies and fills gaps in commercially-relevant topic knowledge, Establishes and promotes an internal topic network, Tracks and shares trends (client needs/practices, competitor activities, academics and practitioner best practice) as needed to maintain and refresh commercially-relevant topic expertise. Helps manage agenda for topics at financial institutions practice events. Presents at FI practice meetings and other internal events. Helps build capacity by coaching and training more junior staff and junior consulting staff on practices, analytic techniques and topic knowledge. Participates in the recruiting/hiring process for team members (e.g., interviewing) as
needed. Promotes innovation by recognizing new concepts and facilitating their capture.

KEY COMPETENCIES:
Problem solving, analytical skills and decision making, Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate with all levels of seniority, Proven research and analysis capabilities (including Excel), Excellent written and oral communication skills, Service-oriented and proactive, Autonomous, able to tolerate ambiguity, self-motivator. Able to work in a fast-paced environment and to manage multiple parallel tasks. Occasional travel.Job RequirementsJOB REQUIREMENTS:
4

View the Original article