Financial Analyst I

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Financial Analyst I
ACCOUNTABILITY STATEMENT
The incumbent will be the part of the Financial Planning & Analysis team and assist the Financial Planning Manager/AVP/VP, Financial Performance Manager/AVP/VP and/or SVP Financial Planning, Pricing and Profitability in carrying out the broader Finance department mission.
The FP&A function refers to the corporate finance and planning imperative. FP&A creates balanced scorecards, and leads capital budgeting for new products, investments and ad hoc projects. FP&A leads the annual operating (AOP), or budget, process and long-term planning exercises including tracking variances. These duties require building and maintaining different models with business intelligence tools including Workday Financials, Workday Adaptive Planning, Empyrean Profitability Model, VyStar data lake and other sources of data/modeling. The FP&A team will work closely with the Financial Risk Management (FRM) team, Advanced Analytics team, Accounting and other business units. FP&A also maintains documentation of all models and methodologies, including a model catalog with documentation and testing of all model changes.
The incumbent will support the FP&A function, at the direction of the Financial Planning Manager/AVP/VP, Financial Performance Manager/AVP/VP and/or SVP Financial Planning, Pricing and Profitability.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Financial Planning & Analysis:

• Assists and performs duties with the budget cycle, formally known as the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) process: 
• Interacts with key stakeholders and business units to derive key inputs, etc.
• Assists with and helps produce the AOP package including financial statements, ratios, analysis, etc.
• Assists in supporting decision-making regarding capital expenditures including branch pro-forma analysis.
• Pursues tactics for streamlining and automating AOP process to reduce operational risks.
• Assists in maintaining a rolling corporate forecast for non-interest income and non-interest expense to be included in the ALM model.
• Assists in business planning cycle, including but not limited to forecasting, and validating expected ROI, capital expenditure and challenging assumptions.
• Assists in automation of data gathering, reports and presentations to include financial statements, variance reporting, ratios, slides and other analysis.
• Performs and maintains historic and forecasted profitability processes.
• Conducts organizational, product, channel, and member-level profitability analysis.
• Maintains Key Metric and Key Ratio analyses such as Net Worth Ratio, Net Interest Margin, Return on Assets, etc.
• Assists in researching and seeking improvements to profitability process and systems, including enhancements such as liquidity-adjusted Funds Transfer Pricing.
• Assists with documentation of FP&A processes, procedures, models, and best practices.

Financial Decision Support & Reporting:

• Ability to translate business data into digestible and actionable information.
• Conducts peer and market comparisons, benchmarking and other analysis.
• Take ownership of maintenance and validation of data sources to ensure completeness of data for planning and forecasting purposes.
• Promote continual process improvements and automation.
• Assists in producing and streamlining management reporting efforts.
• Develop clear and concise written and numerical analysis of all planning results for business units, ALCO, Executive Committee, and other management committees as directed.
• Documenting all work processes and models used for FP&A purposes.
• Assists the Finance team with requirements for the annual regulatory examination by the State of Florida and NCUA.

All employees and business units, as first line of defense, are expected to proactively help identify, assess, manage, and report risks within their domain of work. To enhance a healthy risk culture and support our growth for good pillar, employees will maintain vigilance in safeguarding our operations while ensuring compliance with regulatory mandates. The Risk team serves as the second line of defense by providing risk oversight and credible challenge whereas the Audit team serves as the third line of defense by providing risk assurance.

Incumbent is expected to demonstrate each of the following VyStar Excellence behaviors in performing the duties and responsibilities of their job.

Focus: Focus your full attention by carefully listening to and observing your client or member. Connect: Consistently be friendly and approachable.  Demonstrate you care.

Understand: Listen empathetically and ask questions. (70%/30%)

Counsel: Recommend solutions based on your client’s or member’s needs and objectives.

Advance: Ensure that member's expectations were exceeded.

JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

Required:

 · Avid and positive team player that works well across multi-disciplined organization. 

· Strong communication skills including presentation, interpersonal and writing skills.

· Strong analytical capabilities with strong knowledge of accounting and financial statements are essential.

· Knowledge of bank / credit union budgeting and planning practices.

· Superior skills in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

· Ability to work with both finance and non-finance professionals.

· Ability to work independently and is a self-starter.

· Exhibits flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities and assignments.

Preferred:

· Knowledge of Planning Software, preferably Workday Adaptive Planning/Workday Financials or other similar models.

· Knowledge of profitability software, preferably Empyrean Profitability Model or other similar models.

· Knowledge of business intelligence and statistical tools such as SQL, R or SAS.

EDUCATION

Required:

 · Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related area.

· 0-3 years of bank or credit union related experience.

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Preferred:

· Obtained or working towards Master of Business Administration (MBA) or master’s degree in a Quantitative or finance discipline.

· Working towards advanced certifications including but not limited to CFA or CPA.

DISCLAIMERS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

Nothing in this position description is an implied contract for employment.  The position description is intended to be an accurate account of the essential functions.  The functions are not all encompassing and are subject to change at any time by management.

The work environment characteristics described are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

As required or requested, may exert up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.

VyStar Credit Union is not seeking outside assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from staffing agencies or search firms for employment or contractor opportunities. Any resumes submitted by an outside vendor to any employee at VyStar via e-mail, internet, or directly to hiring managers without a valid written search agreement with the Talent Acquisition / HR department will be deemed the sole property of VyStar Credit Union.

No placement fee will be paid if a candidate is hired as a result of the referral, or through other means.

Thank you for your inquiry regarding our current job opening.  Your resume will be carefully reviewed against the position requirements. Should your experience and skills match, you will be contacted by one of our Human Resources department staff members.

Thank you again for your interest in this position!

VyStar Credit Union Human Resources