Head of Strategic Finance & Resource Allocation
U.S. BankAbout the role
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
Seeking a Head of Strategic Finance & Resource Allocation, a senior executive to build and lead enterprise capability for forward-looking financial strategy and resource allocation decisions. This role provides decision support that guides strategic priorities, aligns investment choices with long-term value creation, and partners to ensure capital and resources are deployed against the enterprise’s highest-priority opportunities.
Essential Functions
Guide enterprise capital allocation and resource allocation analysis across growth, cost, risk, and balance sheet priorities, extensively partnering with relevant stakeholders.
Frame and influence enterprise trade-offs across capital, cost structure, and growth investments, shaping MC- and BOD-ready decision inputs and narratives.
Provide forward-looking enterprise decision support to guide strategic priorities, resource deployment, and executive decision-making.
Leverage enterprise quantitative models, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and external risk perspectives to inform assumptions, options, and recommendations.
Deliver flexible and agile analytics solutions deployed to priority strategic problems, investment decisions, and emerging strategic questions.
In concert with Enterprise Strategy, provide strategic financial partnership to guide strategic initiatives and enterprise decision forums.
Deliver MC- and BOD-ready decision framing, executive materials, and recommendations that clarify choices, trade-offs, and implications.
What Success Looks Like
Forward-looking, scenario-based decision support is consistently used to guide enterprise priorities and leadership decisions.
Resource allocation choices are transparent, strategy-aligned, and grounded in clear trade-off analysis.
Executive teams spend more time making decisions and less time reconciling assumptions, options, or financial implications.
Priority strategic questions receive timely, agile analytics support that clarifies choices and accelerates action.
MC- and BOD-ready materials clearly connect strategy, financial outcomes, risks, and recommended actions.
Preferred Skills/Experience
Deep financial analysis, enterprise FP&A, capital allocation, and resource allocation expertise.
Strong executive decision-framing ski
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