Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst

This Senior Financial Analyst role is a vital member of the Technology Finance organization that provides direct financial oversight and decision support for Texas Capital Bank Technology department.

This high-profile role combines both financial planning with analytics in support of various business initiatives. The position provides opportunities to work directly with senior business executives and finance department leadership in identifying trends and creating forecasts. This role has strong analytics focus and will require a self-motivated, action-oriented strategic thinker who can prioritize, communicate and collaborate to build relationships across departmental lines, and drive projects to successful completion.

Responsibilities:

• Be a key partner to the Technology Leadership Team; assisting in driving change to modernize client experiences while ensuring technology resiliency and security
• Manage financial planning, business analysis, and the monthly financial close process to inform decision making
• Exposure to business cases to support investment decisions by determining ROI and NPV
• Build strong business partnerships at multiple levels while informing and influencing strategic decisions
• Drive to structure and lead analytical and other decision-support projects
• Acquire in-depth understanding of a complex and challenging business enterprise
• Support the implementation, onboarding and maintenance of a new cost allocation, IT Planning and TCO platform for the technology organization (Apptio)
• Build analytics to reduce cost in IT by locating inefficiencies. Drive business partners to solution from unit economics and benchmarking.
• Establish strong financial controls and rigor of the technology procurement pipeline prioritization and delivery process
• Generate and/or optimize supply and demand cycle across labor and non-labor resource channels, while also reducing and minimizing tech debt through rationalization
• Build Opex discipline across technology organization by incorporating iterative input from leadership, providing detailed bottoms up forecasts, and reviewing results against forecast on a consistent basis

Requirements:

• An undergraduate degree
• A minimum of 5 years of related financial/business analysis and planning experience
• Initiative to identify business questions, scope and logically structure an analysis, extract relevant insights, and communicate with a point of view
• Problem solver attitude with a curious mindset
• Self-motivated, results-oriented self-starter
• Adept leadership skills
• Ability to build relationships with, and provide thought leadership to officers of TCB
• Experience thriving in a dynamic and fast-moving work environment
• Experience effectively managing several work streams and projects concurrently
• Superior analytical skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication (written and oral) and partnering skills
• Understanding of accounting principles and finance concepts such as Capex, Opex, NPV and ROI
• Experience sourcing data from database applications and working efficiently with large data sets
• Strong PC skills, including proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint and financial modeling

Preferred:

• Prior experience supporting a technology organization
• Prior experience working in the financial services industry
• Experience working with enterprise financial planning systems such as Oracle SmartView, Hyperion, Apptio or other cost modeling tool experience
• MBA/CPA or similar degree/certification

The duties listed above are the essential functions, or fundamental duties within the job classification. The essential functions of individual positions within the classification may differ. Texas Capital Bank may assign reasonably related additional duties to individual employees consistent with standard departmental policy. Texas Capital is an Equal Opportunity Employer.