Sr. Consultant, Project Reporting & Analysis

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What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Manager, US Change Initiatives Business Effectiveness, the Sr. Consultant, Project Reporting & Analysis is accountable for executing project financial reporting in the US Region’s Change Initiatives Reporting & Metrics function. The role will provide aggregate reporting & insights on project business cases, financial project metrics and risks within the US initiatives portfolio. The role will ensure completeness & accuracy throughout the project reporting process, and distribute the key reports to senior management, committees, LOB leaders, and other stakeholders.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. To successfully perform the work, you’ll be on-site in our Chicago, IL office anywhere between one to three days a week.

How you'll succeed

• Design, execute, and distribute the group’s project financial analysis reports to provide an aggregated view and insights to senior management and committees.

• Design, develop, and execute metrics and thresholds to monitor the risk and performance of CUSO portfolio financial performance to forecast and budget.

• Produce routine and ad-hoc reporting for senior management, committees and other stakeholders.

• Validate financial metrics within project business cases and provide ongoing financial metric oversight to ensure accuracy and consistency across change initiatives [or projects and programs]

• Perform regular review and challenge of accuracy of financial forecasts, alignment to business cases, and identify any risks and issues for potential escalation.

• Create and maintain a portfolio level financial forecast for executive review.

• Identify and execute enhancement to reporting as needed, including report designs, processes, and technology

• Act as liaison with Project finance team to drive consistency with reporting, management and implementation of changes in practice related to Project Finance processes, ensure data inputs are accurate, and provide subject matter expertise for project financial reporting

• Support the creation and maintenance of interaction model between business sponsors, project/program managers and finance, establish project/program management financial management, tracking, and oversight standards and supporting procedures

Who you are

• You have 6-8 years of experience in reporting & analysis functions.

• You possess a required Bachelor’s degree.

• You are an expert in data analytics and strong system knowledge in BI/Data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI and Tableau.

• You acknowledge high level knowl