Finance Manager

Location:

127 Public Square - Cleveland, Ohio 44114

This position will be responsible for helping drive the financial performance of the Institutional Bank Line of Business (LOB), which includes KeyBanc Capital Markets and Real Estate Capital. This role provides support of critical business functions and initiatives to drive sound, profitable growth. Strong partnering skills and effective communication are integral competencies of this position as an individual in this role will be working closely with senior leadership in both the Line of Business and Finance. Candidate must be comfortable working in a fast paced and dynamic environment with ability to provide solutions and analysis with limited direction at times.

Essential Job Functions
 

• Financial Management
  • Develops or enhances existing driver based forecast models to predict financial performance under different scenarios and reduces limitations related to qualitative overlays
  • Owns the monthly forecast process with Line of Business partners and provides oversight to business performance versus Plan and actuals with the ability to quickly identify risks and opportunities to the forecast
  • Understand macroeconomic factors that impacts the business and connect the trends to the financials and the performance of the business
  • Utilizes analytics to create linkages across different client sets to provide insight into profitability and behavior across client cohorts
  • Creates reporting to track progress relative to strategic initiatives
  • Provides perspective on external benchmarks to business performance and strategic positioning
• Partner Management
  • Strategic partner to the Institutional Bank Senior Leadership team
  • Partners with the Line of Business, Finance and Corporate Treasury teams to provide insight and transparency into performance relative to strategic priorities and key performance metrics
  • Presents to senior leadership on a quarterly or monthly basis with a focus on translating business driver trends to forward looking risks and opportunities
  • Proactively reviews financials/client activity and works closely with Line of Business partners to elevate critical topics for monthly business reviews
• Business Operation & Optimization
  • Lead and develop a high performing team of analysts
  • Provides support around month-end close including variance analysis and impact to future performance
  • Proactively seeks out opportunities to eliminate inefficient or redundant activities and reporting
  • Continuously identifies areas where manual processes can be transformed to automated or self-service activities
  • Supports Finance initiatives as needed

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree (Finance, Accounting or related field)
• 5+ years of diverse analytical experience in Finance, preferably with exposure to banking
• Proven leader with experience managing a high performing team
• Organized self-starter with the ability to think and work independently and creatively
• Ability to anticipate questions and proactively develop materials or analysis
• Strong financial acumen
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to establish solid working relationships with multiple teams and individuals with varying levels of expertise
• Proven team player, willing to assist others as needed to ensure that group deadlines are met and quality standards achieved
• Detail oriented with the ability to thoroughly analyze and resolve issues with limited direction
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Access and PowerPoint)
• Experience working with financial system reporting environments (i.e., Workday Financials, Adaptive Planning, Essbase, IBM TM1 or Cognos, etc.)
• Experience with tools such as Tableau preferred

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

This position is eligible to earn a base salary in the range of $110,000 to $115,000 annually depending on location and job-related factors such as level of experience. Compensation for this role also includes eligibility for short-term incentive compensation and deferred incentive compensation subject to individual and company performance.

Please click here for a list of benefits for which this position is eligible.

Key has implemented a role-based Mobile by Design approach to our employee workspaces, dedicating space to those whose roles require specific workspaces, while providing flexible options for roles which are less dependent on assigned workspaces and can be performed effectively in a mobile environment. As a result, this role may be Mobile or Home-based, which means you may work primarily either at a home office or in a Key facility to perform your job duties.

Job Posting Expiration Date: 04/13/2025

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