Financial Analyst - GCM Finance

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

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Join our dynamic Finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst supporting the Global Capital markets (GCM) business. This role acts as a key finance partner to line-of-business (LOB) leaders, providing insightful financial analysis, forecasting and reporting to drive strategic decisions, optimize balance sheets and enhance profitability. You will work with partners to forecast capital markets revenue, drive expense optimization, and manage performance metrics in a fast-paced, regulatory-driven environment.

The ideal candidate thrives on data-driven insights, collaborates across teams, and contributes to value creation initiatives.
The GCM group helps organizations optimize their capital structure, fund growth, and manage financial risk through a comprehensive suite of debt, financing, and risk management solutions. Key areas include Investment Grade, Leverage Finance, Loan Syndications, Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Repo, Structured Credit and Working Capital Finance.

• Perform financial forecasting, planning, and variance analysis for GCM income statement, balance sheet and key metrics.
• Monitor and analyze business-level performance, identify trends, risks and opportunities.
• Develop and maintain financial models to evaluate strategic decisions, such as resource allocation or funding strategies.
• Prepare management reports, presentations and ad-hoc analyses for senior leadership including board level summaries, investor relations and regulatory submissions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. Treasury, Risk, HR, Controllership, Portfolio Management) to support forecast/planning process, month-end close activities and relationship profitability analysis.
• Drive process improvements, such as enhancing reporting tools or simplify operations to focus on high-impact areas.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics or a related field (MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred).
• Typically, six or more years of related experience

• Strong understanding of financial statements, P&L management, balance sheet dynamics.
• Experience partnering with internal stakeholders, including senior management and business unit heads.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and financial tools (Hyperion, Workday, Power
  
  BI, Tableau, SQL).
• Familiarity with capital markets products and their financial impact.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills for presenting complex financial insights to non-finance audience.
• Intellectual curiosity, proactive mindset and ability to challenge assumptions while working collaboratively.

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to disability accommodations for applicants.

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade…