Advanced Finance Analytics Sr Consultant - FinOps Compute Product Lead

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Finance brings together enterprise functions that drive Wells Fargo's financial management, including accounting and control, financial planning and analysis, line of business finance, asset-liability management, treasury, tax management, and the company's investment portfolios. They also inform shareholders, regulators, taxing authorities, employees, and leaders of the company's financial performance through earnings releases, investor meetings and conferences, and meetings with regulators and credit rating agencies, following appropriate reporting guidelines.

Technology Finance drives financial management for the multi-billion dollar Wells Fargo Technology organization acting as trusted business partners by measuring cost and value, providing insights, analytics and recommendations to facilitate good business decisions and to maximize the value delivered to our customers. Our mission is to provide exceptional financial insights delivered through simple and transparent solutions

The Position: 

This Advanced Financial Analytics Senior Consultant will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and managing internal compute product costs and pricing for the Technology Infrastructure Organization.  Focus of this role will be to provide product cost transparency which is important to the overall financial and technical management of these environments.  The information provided by this individual will assist the team to inform leadership of options as the organization works to implement, execute, and transform in alignment of the Hosting Strategy.  This role will be responsible for advancing the understanding and transparency of the unit rates for the current and future application hosting environments. This position will be expected to partner with Technology product owners and peers across the Technology Finance Organization.    

Responsibilities of this role includes:

• Define and build out target pricing and charge-backs for compute products used to support forecasting and optimization of overall spend.  
• Define product unit rates to ensure availability of proper charge back data that is transparent and actionable.  
• Provide necessary data and transparency to support hosting cost analysis which will be foundational to the Hosting Strategy transformation. 
• Support presentations to senior management that clearly articulate the financial strategies along with providing insights/recommendations for the different compute environments.
• Ensure Technology Product Owners are aware and understand all financial information related to the products they own.  This includes understanding overall costs, unit rates, consumers, forecast trends, etc.
• Partner across the Technology and Finance organization to drive change and significant transformation.
• Present necessary information to help influence and ensure buy-in from key strategic partners.  
• Help define, maintain, and refine key metrics associated with the compute products.
• Provide ad-hoc financial analysis to senior management on a frequent basis.
• Ensure data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness in all financial reporting and presentations.

Specifically, we seek:

• Problem Solving: Ability to visualize, articulate, and solve problems. Accurately analyzes complex issues, ensuring identification of underlying root causes. Demonstrates the ability to solve problems under conditions of uncertainty and ambiguity. Generates alternative solutions and expertly handles obstacles.
• Professional Skills: Capable prolific communicator that is comfortable working with a wide variety of Technology leaders, stakeholders and business partners.
• Proven teamwork skills; excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Creativity and Innovation: Able to think creatively and critically to identify opportunities to uniquely and effectively meet customer needs. Strong ability to assess market and competitive conditions and to develop creative, break-through approaches supporting improved customer experiences and operational efficiencies. 
• Analytical Thinking: Obtains and uses data necessary to identify opportunities or understand problems; uses quantitative techniques to make it actionable

• 6+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: analytics, reporting, financial modeling, statistical modeling, finance, or accounting; or a BS/BA or higher in Finance, Accounting, Statistics, Economics or Business and 4+ years of experience in one or a combination of the following: analytics, reporting, financial modeling, statistical modeling, finance, or accounting demonstrated through work or military experience

• A BS/BA degree or higher in a quantitative field such as applied math, statistics, engineering, physics, accounting, finance, economics, econometrics, computer sciences, or business/social and behavioral sciences with a quantitative emphasis
• Highly refined and professional verbal and written communications
• Ability to drive and lead organizational change in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work and influence successfully within a matrix environment and build effective business partnerships with all levels of team members

• Demonstrated ability to identify, thoroughly analyze, and solve highly complex problems and reach independent decisions
• Engage and communicate openly, forcefully and effectively, providing credible challenges when necessary with executive management within Technology and Finance
• Highly effective in overcoming objections using skillful persuasion to influence decision making
• Displays a strong ability to learn rapidly and quickly adapt to changing situations
• Proven strategic planning experience
• Proven leadership experience in developing innovative solutions; driving organizational change and managing teams through change
• Exceptional track record of delivering results
• Ability to translate complex concepts, appropriately communicating the information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to manage effectively in a matrixed organization, shaping the work while identifying, directing and coordinating resources not in your chain of command 
• Demonstrated highly effective verbal, written and interpersonal communications skills

• All offers for employment with Wells Fargo are contingent upon the candidate having successfully completed a criminal background check. Wells Fargo will consider qualified candidates with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state and Federal law, including Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
  
  Relevant military experience is considered for veterans and transitioning service men and women.
  Wells Fargo is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

Benefits
 

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