Finance Transformation and Chief of Staff to CFO

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. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of U.S. Bank, the Chief of Staff will serve as a key strategic and execution focused leader for the Finance Leadership team in our finance of the future transformation journey. This integral role will work across our teams to build and drive shared priorities, support the delivery on strategic and operational goals, bring a commercial perspective to decision making as well as managing critical day-to-day activities.

The successful candidate must be a dynamic individual who can enable strategic direction, focus on commercial decision making, drive large-scale transformation, and leadership for all aspects of Finance. In addition, this leader must be adept at driving horizontal relationships across the enterprise to enable rapid growth, with a bias for accountability and action, paired with a strong ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, and with an innate ability to focus on details and execution without losing sight of the broader bank strategy.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Serve as a trusted and strategic execution partner to the CFO, while engaging with the Finance leadership team and the broader senior leadership team.
• Provide the CFO with data-driven insights, reports, updates, and recommendations to facilitate informed and commercial decision making on critical topics.
• Lead and execute high-impact projects assigned by the CFO, ensuring alignment and accountability across senior leadership. When not directly leading, will still play a key influential role in advising and supporting the leadership team, in alignment with the broader business strategy.
• Proactively identify and prioritize key issues and opportunities, developing strategies in partnership with the broader leadership team to solution and capitalize where appropriate.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders to advance the CFO’s agenda and organizational goals.
• Gather leadership perspectives on critical issues and/or opportunities as they arise; facilitate leadership with a high degree of transparency and high-touch communications, and ensure the appropriate stakeholders are included in relevant decisions and actions.
• Continually scan the environment for trends, innovations and operating models of high performing, high impact Finance organizations.
• Identify and achieve measurable outcomes in a timely, cost-effective, and employee centric manner – drive day to day actions and priorities, balancing short-term needs with long-term priorities
• Ensure impactful and action-oriented Finance staff meetings and offsites by preparing agendas, attending, supporting facilitation when needed, and tracking follow-up actions and key outcomes.
• Work closely with the CFO and key partners, including the broader administrative team to fully optimize the CFO’s calendar and time as needed: will ensure intentional and proactive management of calendar and activities to fully optimize the CFO’s time, in alignment with the CFO’s vision and priorities.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

The successful candidate will bring a demonstrated history of leadership experience in the financial services industry, and have a background in Strategy, Consulting, Business Operations, and/or Planning leadership roles.

IN ADDITION, THE PREFERRED CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING

• MBA or equivalent experience.

• Relevant industry leadership experience across most areas of our portfolio.

• Demonstrated ability to oversee and coordinate a complex portfolio of projects and initiatives.

• Familiarity with translating high-level organizational goals into actionable plans and ensuring follow-through.

• Proven experience researching, compiling, and synthesizing complex and/or large quantities of data into executive briefing documents.

• Experience in streamlining and maintaining operational efficiencies, including organizing meetings, tracking deliverables, and driving accountability across teams.

• Demonstrated experience anticipating challenges and implementing proactive solutions.