Senior Business Analyst

Position Title: Senior Business Analyst Business Management Office within Technology

Location: 4 days in-office 8-5 pm CT, prefer Dallas or Columbus; remote Fridays

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join our Business Management Office (BMO) within the Office of the CIO at Huntington Bank. The BMO currently supports certain verticals within Technology, but over time, will support all verticals to provide the CIO with a full landscape of the business operations of Technology. As the BMO grows to support all of technology, existing processes and reporting must be improved upon and automated to scale and be repeatable, where able. The BMO seeks to hire this critical role to reinforce the existing team with both leadership and delivery of existing and routine deliverables while also looking for efficiency gains to scale.

The ideal candidate will have at least 8 years of experience with analysis in both Finance and Operations, preferably within a financial services organization or within a technology line of business supporting a financial services enterprise. This individual will work closely with Technology teams and stakeholder groups like Finance and Accounts Payable, among others, to deliver routine operational reporting while improving the underlying reporting structures to drive BMO team efficiency. As the candidate grows, they will move from an individual contributor role to a lead role within the team. The candidate will need to have a strong background in Tableau and PowerBI, and familiarity with ServiceNow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage business analysis efforts for Technology, specifically expense management and budgeting.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders (Finance and Technology teams) to review new budget and approval to spend requests, to ensure alignment to existing financials:




• Able to offer guidance and best practices while collaborating; requires strong executive presence.




• Facilitate meetings, presentations, and updates for senior management and other key stakeholders. Able to lead by influencing these stakeholder groups.
• Very detail oriented.
• Manage and update budget items throughout the year; able to analyze and understand changes and impacts based on movement in the budget.
• Assist BMO team lead(s) by providing support and oversight to junior team members and assisting as lead when needed.
• Ability to query databases, perform data validation, and troubleshoot reporting anomalies.
• Act as a point of contact for the BMO, ensuring excellent customer service to internal stakeholders while balancing efficiency.
• Able to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment while understanding the underlying risks to help re-prioritize work.
• Able to create new business processes and continuously improve upon existing processes, reports, and methodologies to increase efficiency and quality of deliverables.
• Ability to be detail-oriented but also understand and communicate the key messages hidden in the data to face off with various Technology leaders.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in financial analysis within the banking or financial services sector. However, this is not a finance role.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written, with the ability to present complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders; ability to draw out key messages from the data while tying the data back to business needs of the Technology team identifying the so what.
• Strong data analysis experience and knowledge of expense management and budgeting processes.
• Able to lead and coach team members.
• Critical thinker with strong organizational skills and detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently while ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and work independently.
• Preferably local to Columbus, OH or Dallas, TX.