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

Job Description

About U.S. Bank

At U.S. Bank, we are committed to driving business banking forward with a customer-first approach. We empower our business stakeholders by supporting them with data-driven insights for strategic growth initiatives while fostering a culture of innovation. Our Finance Data team is at the heart of this transformation, leveraging cloud data platforms and customer-centric insights and strategies to shape the future of financial services.

Role Overview

We have an exciting new leadership opportunity within the Finance Data Office & Transformation supporting finance and business lines. This new leader will provide leadership and oversight for several Enterprise aligned insights and help build out new data products and support existing finance data products. This leader will lead to the development of intuitive, visually compelling reports that prioritize user experience and deliver actionable insights while balancing data integrity and accuracy. The individual will lead and mentor a team of data analysts, fostering a culture of design-thinking & data storytelling within the data organization.

This leader will need to collaborate closely with data engineering teams to ensure data models support ease and efficiency of reporting and allow for scalable reporting solutions. This individual will be responsible for creating and maintaining executive level dashboards leveraging Finance data to provide leadership with critical growth metrics and forward-looking business insights that drive strategic initiatives.

This individual will oversee the Client Growth Excellence (CGE) metrics and collaborate with cross commit and cross functional teams to align insights, data sources, data platforms, data quality metrics related to CGE. This includes key partnerships with CFO teams, Growth Office, Consumer & Business Banking, Payments and Wealth Corporate Commercial and Institutional Banking business lines.

U.S. Bank is focused on enhancing client service, building new capabilities, and driving efficiency across business units and corporate functions. As such, this individual must bring a desire to lead change on behalf of stakeholders and be able to operate in a centralized, highly accountable environment. This individual must strike the right balance between leading change at a swift pace while maintaining a disciplined focus on Finance data and the lines of business.

Key Responsibilities

Data & Insights

• Lead end-to-end insights across Finance and Business Lines, leveraging data insights to improve customer acquisition, retention, and profitability.
• Identify and implement KPIs, dashboards, and performance metrics to drive business decision-making and operational efficiencies.
• Utilize tools like SQL, Power BI etc. to create visually impactful dashboards.
• Understand business goals and objectives to align insights strategies and outputs with overall business objectives and expected outcomes.
• Analyze and synthesize data to produce insights, supporting business partners to inform business strategies and decision-making.
• Present data and insights in a visually appealing and easily understandable format.
• Identify, evaluate, and acquire relevant data sources and their locations, collaborate with data providers, ensure data quality and security, maintain infrastructure.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Build and lead a high-performing team of BI developers, fostering innovation and continuous learning.
• Partner with senior executives and cross-functional teams (Business Line, Finance, Enterprise Data Office, Technology) to align data initiatives with business objectives.
• Act as a thought leader, presenting insights to executive leadership and influencing key strategic decisions.
• Identify and address challenges, develop innovative solutions, and drive continuous improvement.
• Quickly adapt to changing market conditions, technologies, and stakeholder preferences.
• Administration & general management (e.g., driving transformation, efficiency goals, financial aspects including capital expenditures, billing, contracts, & leadership and talent planning).

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