U.S. Bank

GCM - Broker Dealer Senior Financial Analyst

U.S. Bank$111K — $131K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • 6+ years of relevant experience
  • Strong understanding of P&L management and balance sheet dynamics within a broker dealer
  • Experience with capital markets businesses (trading, repo, underwriting)
  • Advanced skills in Excel and PowerPoint; familiarity with financial systems like Hyperion, SQL
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to challenge assumptions
  • Excellent communication skills for diverse audiences

Responsibilities

  • Lead forecasting for the Institutional Broker Dealer across financial statements
  • Build models linking business activity to financial impact
  • Identify and explain drivers of capital and balance sheet consumption
  • Provide insights on performance trends and capital constraints
  • Partner with Treasury and Risk on funding and liquidity assessments
  • Enhance reporting and dashboards for better decision making
  • Drive automation to improve forecasting and reporting efficiency
  • Support strategic initiatives and business growth opportunities

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Life insurance options
  • Disability coverage (short-term and long-term)
  • Parental leave and pregnancy disability benefits
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Flexible vacation policy (2-5 weeks based on tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holidays
  • Adoption assistance benefits
  • Accrued sick and safe leave opportunities (1 hour for every 30 worked up to 80 hours per year)
Full Job Description
Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to join the Global Capital Markets (GCM) Finance team supporting the Institutional Broker Dealer. This role is a key partner in legal entity forecasting, balance sheet management, and capital oversight, with a primary focus on net capital adequacy, liquidity, funding needs, and sustainable business growth.

The position leads driver based forecasting across the income statement, balance sheet, and key regulatory capital metrics, translating front office activity (Trading, Repo, Underwriting) into forward looking financial insights. This is a high visibility role responsible for proactively identifying and addressing capital and balance sheet constraints that may impact growth.

GCM helps clients optimize capital structures, fund growth, and manage financial risk through a comprehensive suite of capital markets solutions, including Investment Grade and Leveraged Finance, Loan Syndications, Derivatives, Foreign Exchange, Repo, Structured Credit, and Working Capital Finance.

Key Responsibilities
  • Lead legal entity level forecasting for the Institutional Broker Dealer across the income statement, balance sheet, cash flows, and key regulatory capital metrics
  • Build and maintain driver based models linking business activity (trading volumes, spreads, inventory, underwriting pipeline, repo activity) to P&L, balance sheet usage, funding requirements, and net capital impact
  • Identify and explain key drivers of net capital, balance sheet consumption, and growth capacity
  • Provide forward looking insights on performance trends, risks, and capital constraints to senior stakeholders
  • Partner with Treasury and Risk to assess funding, liquidity, and capital implications of forecasted activity
  • Enhance forecast reporting and dashboards to improve transparency and decision making
  • Drive automation and scalable processes to reduce manual forecasting and reporting
  • Support strategic initiatives, ad hoc analyses, and business growth opportunities


Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Typically six or more years of related experience

Preferred Skills / Experience
  • Strong understanding of P&L management and balance sheet dynamics within a broker dealer
  • Experience supporting or partnering with capital markets businesses (trading, repo, underwriting)
  • Ability to translate business activity into capital and balance sheet implications
  • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills; experience with financial systems (Hyperion, Workday, Power BI, Tableau, SQL)
  • Strong analytical skills, intellectual curiosity, and comfort challenging assumptions
  • Clear, concise communication skills for executive and non finance audiences


The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.

Benefits:

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members' whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:
  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic term and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law


Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

The salary range reflects figures based on the primary location, which is listed first. The actual range for the role may differ based on the location of the role. In addition to salary, U.S. Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package, including incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase 401(k) contribution and pension (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Pay Range: $111,605.00 - $131,300.00

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.

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