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Job Description
Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer of U.S. Bank, the Chief of Staff will serve as a key strategic and execution focused leader for the Finance Leadership team in our finance of the future transformation journey. This integral role will work across our teams to build and drive shared priorities, support the delivery on strategic and operational goals, bring a commercial perspective to decision making as well as managing critical day-to-day activities.
The successful candidate must be a dynamic individual who can enable strategic direction, focus on commercial decision making, drive large-scale transformation, and leadership for all aspects of Finance. In addition, this leader must be adept at driving horizontal relationships across the enterprise to enable rapid growth, with a bias for accountability and action, paired with a strong ability to communicate clearly and persuasively, and with an innate ability to focus on details and execution without losing sight of the broader bank strategy.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Serve as a trusted and strategic execution partner to the CFO, while engaging with the Finance leadership team and the broader senior leadership team.
Provide the CFO with data-driven insights, reports, updates, and recommendations to facilitate informed and commercial decision making on critical topics.
Lead and execute high-impact projects assigned by the CFO, ensuring alignment and accountability across senior leadership. When not directly leading, will still play a key influential role in advising and supporting the leadership team, in alignment with the broader business strategy.
Proactively identify and prioritize key issues and opportunities, developing strategies in partnership with the broader leadership team to solution and capitalize where appropriate.
Build and sustain trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders to advance the CFO's agenda and organizational goals.
Gather leadership perspectives on critical issues and/or opportunities as they arise; facilitate leadership with a high degree of transparency and high-touch communications, and ensure the appropriate stakeholders are included in relevant decisions and actions.
Continually scan the environment for trends, innovations and operating models of high performing, high impact Finance organizations.
Identify and achieve measurable outcomes in a timely, cost-effective, and employee centric manner - drive day to day actions and priorities, balancing short-term needs with long-term priorities
Ensure impactful and action-oriented Finance staff meetings and offsites by preparing agendas, attending, supporting facilitation when needed, and tracking follow-up actions and key outcomes.
Work closely with the CFO and key partners, including the broader administrative team to fully optimize the CFO's calendar and time as needed: will ensure intentional and proactive management of calendar and activities to fully optimize the CFO's time, in alignment with the CFO's vision and priorities.
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
The successful candidate will bring a demonstrated history of leadership experience in the financial services industry, and have a background in Strategy, Consulting, Business Operations, and/or Planning leadership roles.
IN ADDITION, THE PREFERRED CANDIDATE WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING
MBA or equivalent experience.
Relevant industry leadership experience across most areas of our portfolio.
Demonstrated ability to oversee and coordinate a complex portfolio of projects and initiatives.
Familiarity with translating high-level organizational goals into actionable plans and ensuring follow-through.
Proven experience researching, compiling, and synthesizing complex and/or large quantities of data into executive briefing documents.
Experience in streamlining and maintaining operational efficiencies, including organizing meetings, tracking deliverables, and driving accountability across teams.
Demonstrated experience anticipating challenges and implementing proactive solutions.
Exceptional communication, interpersonal, and influencing skills with the ability to build trust quickly across multiple audiences and stakeholders.
Proven experience managing sensitive information and communications with the highest level of discretion.
Requires travel and schedule flexibility based on the CFO's schedule and priorities
LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES
Collaboration and Engagement: Drives strong partnerships and leads with one U.S. Bank thought leadership
Drives for Results: Drives execution, continuously improves the core, and reallocates resources at pace
Disrupts & Challenges: Creates possibilities from new and innovative thinking; generates disruptive change; leads change
Leads Innovation: Encourages innovative thought; challenges the status quo; scales and invests in new ideas
Drives Vision and Purpose: Paints a compelling picture of the vision and strategy that motivates others to action on behalf of the CFO.
PIVOTAL EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND EXPERTISE
The successful candidate will have demonstrated success in building and leading high-performing teams. This executive will have experience leading a best-in-class organization, leveraging highly disciplined business, financial, and strategic processes, and demonstrated experience and success enabling business growth in new client acquisition, deepening of client relationships and the development and delivery of exceptional solutions for clients.
STRATEGIC THINKING : Strategic thought leader that proactively responds to changing business needs and objectives, while considering implications of business or people related decisions and actions.
PROJECT MANGEMENT : Experience in developing strategies and providing work direction and guidance to a broader team of organization. Ability to make sense out of complex situations, demonstrating intellectual curiosity, and driving outcomes with appropriate levels of governance and controls.
COMMUNICATION : Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively build and articulate messages with story-telling technics and detailed points of view.
COLLABORATION : Demonstrated experience in excelling in a highly collaborative work environment and leading large scale initiatives cross functionally across a large organization.
INFLUENCE : Proven history of leading and/or influencing senior leaders and teams by proven results driven through excellent leadership in action.
PROBLEM SOLVING : Problem solving orientated, with the ability to recognize needs, anticipate issues, and develop solutions using strong analytical, business knowledge, and financial acumen.
INTERPERSONAL : Outstanding interpersonal, influence-management, and communication skills, particularly in building relationships with business leaders and key stake holder.
If there's anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants (https://careers.usbank.com/global/en/disability-accommodations-for-applicants) .
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 (some may vary based on role, location or hours):
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
U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.
E-Verify
U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program (https://careers.usbank.com/verification-of-eligibility-for-employment) .
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: $193,035.00 - $227,100.00 - $249,810.00
U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.
Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
