Position Overview

As a Business Experience & Planning Advisor within PNC's Strategy & Planning organization, you will be based in Pittsburgh, PA.

This role will provide dedicated support across administrative analytics, financial metric development, and general ledger transaction analysis. You will play a critical role in enabling proactive insights, improved portfolio transparency, and stronger decision-making across multiple technology organizations.

This position requires an analytical problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment and can partner effectively with senior leaders and diverse stakeholder groups.

Key Responsibilities:
• Develop, maintain, and enhance financial dashboards, metric sets, and reporting packages for technology portfolio performance.
• Conduct general ledger transaction analysis and variance reviews to ensure accuracy and alignment with financial plans.
• Run portfolio-level financial tracking, ensuring visibility into approved spend, remaining funds, and forecasted needs.
• Analyze large data sets to identify trends, cost-saving opportunities, and areas requiring attention.
• Support ongoing portfolio management activities across all technology businesses.
• Create management-ready reports and insights that support strategic planning, forecasting, and executive presentations.
• Maintain tracking mechanisms for approvals, budget updates, and portfolio changes.
• Use advanced Excel functions to manipulate, analyze, and visualize data.
• Ensure data integrity across multiple sources and inputs.
• Partner with leaders and stakeholders across several technology organizations.
• Communicate effectively with senior leadership, translating analytical findings into clear, actionable insights.
• Build strong interpersonal relationships to support alignment, transparency, and timely decision-making.

Qualifications:
• Demonstrated strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex financial datasets.
• Excellent Excel skills: VLOOKUP, PivotTables, SUMIF, advanced formulas, etc.
• Experience supporting financial or portfolio analytics within a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities, with experience presenting to or supporting senior leadership.
• Ability to adapt quickly, shift priorities, and operate effectively without relying on rigid checklists.
• Familiarity with budgeting tools, reporting systems, or general ledger modules.
• Prior work supporting large, multi-stakeholder organizations.

PNC is an in-office company that fosters a supportive culture where employees can thrive and achieve balance. We encourage candidates to connect with their recruiter and hiring manager to understand workplace expectations and ensure the role aligns with their goals.

PNC will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

• Collaborates cross-functional teams to improve business planning methods. Executes key line of business initiatives and growth strategies and programs that will drive line of business objectives. Demonstrates commitment to quality by delivering customer focus and appropriate risk management practices to customers and/or internal partners.
• Responsible for executing and implementing business planning processes. Helps to designs strategic plans based on forecasts, and provides improvement recommendations.
• Understands business direction and needs and develops solutions, roadmaps and assessment of potential business impacts. Identifies and executes opportunities that add value to the business and to achieve business goals.
• Works with key decision makers to ensure cross-business and cross-functional alignment and synergy.
• Serves as subject matter resource and advocate that influences the implementation of best practices and learning plans that meet business objectives.

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Preferred Skills
Business Development, Business Intelligence (BI), Competitive Advantages, Competitive Strategies, Data Integration, Data Mining, Strategic Planning

Competencies
Accuracy and Attention to Detail, Analytical Thinking, Business Process Design, Data Gathering and Analysis, Effective Communications, Influencing, Planning: Tactical, Strategic, Problem Solving, Strategic Thinking

Work Experience
Roles at this level typically require a university / college degree, with 5+ years of industry-relevant experience. Specific certifications are often required. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education
Bachelors

Certifications
No Required Certification(s)

Licenses
No Required License(s)

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.

In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit pncthrive.com.