Finance Manager

The Finance Manager role supports assigned business areas and portfolios through strategic Finance advice, analysis, decision support, and partnership with internal stakeholders. The position is based onsite in Mount Laurel, NJ and includes accountability for complex reviews, audits, initiatives, and financial modeling to help drive risk-adjusted profitability.

Role Overview

This position provides strategic Finance guidance and deep business insights to senior stakeholders. The scope includes comprehensive reviews, specialized analysis, audits, and/or initiatives over a yearly time span, with work guided by enterprise policies and industry standards. The Finance Manager may interface with Finance partners and leaders as well as external parties, and may lead teams of related specialists or experts within a defined area of specialty.

The role also emphasizes autonomy in leading within the area of expertise, translating complex information into actionable insights, and contributing to strategic direction for both the respective business and the enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic Finance advice, analysis, and support for assigned business areas or portfolios.
• Proactively manage senior relationships to deliver seasoned business insights, decision support, and guidance.
• Conduct financial analysis and research, including reviews and audits, to support functional goals and objectives.
• Act as an interface with Finance partners or leaders and external parties as needed.
• Serve as a source of advice to senior management within the field of specialty; may lead teams of related specialists.
• Complete complex projects and initiatives requiring seasoned business partner specialist knowledge and cross-functional process integration.
• Communicate difficult concepts by converting information into business context and recommendations, influencing alignment across increasingly senior stakeholders.
• Develop meaningful data analysis using comprehensive data visualization tools, profiling tools, segmentation, and advanced modeling and analytics.
• Lead interpretation of complex business issues, generate multifaceted insights, and identify opportunities to support growth and address business or enterprise needs.
• Create presentations on business performance, including competitive analysis and related topics.
• Develop and implement growth strategies and partner with the business to build financial plans and forecasts.
• Leverage advanced data and analytics to enable strategic decision support for business leaders.
• Develop or assess significant business cases and new initiatives, including evaluating outcomes, testing assumptions, applying criteria for the area of responsibility, and coordinating input to support decisions.
• Ensure alignment between business segment goals and enterprise goals or thresholds.
• Develop key business performance measures or metrics and share benchmark or best-practice information with appropriate stakeholders.
• Lead development and implementation of new financial models, methodologies, frameworks, and paradigms to support ongoing reporting, audit, and analysis functions.
• Monitor and analyze financial performance, acting as a custodian of cost.
• Maintain compliance with internal and external requirements, including financial controls, segregation of duties, transaction approvals, and physical control of assets.
• Adhere to enterprise frameworks or methodologies related to the business area and ensure programs and policies are effectively managed.
• Keep abreast of emerging issues and evolving regulatory requirements and assess potential impacts.
• Act as a brand ambassador for the business area and the bank, internally and/or externally.

Education and Experience

• Undergraduate degree.
• 7+ years of relevant experience.
• Accounting or financial designation preferred.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Experience building and maintaining large-scale Excel forecasting models and managing complex data sets.
• Expertise in vintage-level analysis and account-level forecasting.
• Strong financial modeling skills.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into financial assumptions and forecasts.
• Experience with retail deposits, including deposit behavior, balance trends, and related financial analysis.
• Consumer Deposit experience.
• FP&A experience.

Tools & Technologies

• Excel

Work Location and Hours

• Work location: Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America (onsite).
• Hours: 40

Travel and Physical Requirements

• Domestic travel: Occasional.
• International travel: Never.
• Performing sedentary work: Continuous.
• Performing multiple tasks: Continuous.
• Operating standard office equipment: Continuous.
• Responding quickly to sounds: Occasional.
• Sitting: Continuous; standing, walking, and other movements listed as Occasional or as specified.
• Lifting/carrying under 25 lbs.: Occasional; over 25 lbs.: Never.
• Other physical activities listed as Continuous, Occasional, or Never, including concentrating for long periods of time and reading/writing/comprehending instructions as Continuous.

Compensation

• Base salary and incentives: Eligibility for cash and/or equity incentive awards generally through participation in an incentive plan.
• Pay range: $91,000 - $145,600 USD per year.

Benefits

• Health and well-being benefits
• Savings and retirement programs
• Paid time off (Vacation PTO, Flex PTO, Holiday PTO)
• Banking benefits and discounts
• Career development
• Reward and recognition
• Training and onboarding sessions
• Online learning platform
• Mentoring programs