Lead Group Manager, Finance (US)- FP&A

Work Location: Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours: 40

About the role

The US Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team helps the bank make informed financial decisions and plan for future growth. The team is responsible for budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, and financial reporting across the organization. By turning financial data into clear insights, FP&A helps leaders understand performance, identify opportunities, manage risks, and make decisions that support the bank’s goals.

This role oversees a team of Business Finance professionals that provide strategic financial analysis, insights, decision support, and/or reporting results and/or guidance to various internal and external stakeholders. Drives proactive thought leadership throughout U.S. Finance and delivers effective challenge to business partners.

Responsibilities

• Oversees a team of Finance professionals for key business segments or a significantly large part of the organization.
• Requires in-depth shareholder and/or broad financial and business perspective; scope may include integration of activities and Finance support for several key business lines.
• Focuses on longer-range issues dealing with and solving highly sensitive, confidential, and/or multifaceted and complex financial management issues.
• Primary interface and high-level resource to Business leaders on financial performance measures, business objectives, and goals.
• Integrates knowledge of the enterprise function’s or business segment’s overarching strategy in leading program design, policy formulation, or operating standards within one or more areas of expertise.
• Anticipates emerging business trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional, or operations improvements.
• Understands industry and competitive trends and effectively incorporates them into business strategy discussions and analyses.
• Solves unique and ambiguous problems that have a broad impact on the business segment.
• Develops and manages a team of Finance professionals capable of executing with excellence and providing top-tier advisory services.
• Develops and maintains strong relationships with internal Finance business/specialized Finance partners and other stakeholders.
• Effectively communicates relevant and meaningful recommendations on a range of finance management issues or related operational processes to all levels within the organization.
• Ensures team collaboration with partners on business problems/issues and provides fact-based analytical advice that aligns to strategy and drives shareholder value.
• Liaises and effectively interacts with internal/external auditors/regulators where applicable and ensures appropriate action is taken where required.
• Acts as a seasoned expert and provides expert guidance, advice, and recommendations to support dealings with internal/external partners.
• Contributes to the analysis, due diligence, and execution of potential business restructures, acquisitions, joint ventures, and/or divestitures within own area of responsibility and ensures appropriate Finance areas are involved where necessary.
• Develops and/or assesses highly complex business cases/new initiatives applying expertise and ensuring criteria for own area are met (e.g., taxation, accounting practices, forecasted rates of return, evaluate outcomes, test assumptions, interface with others for appropriate input, identify benchmarks).
• Manages/coordinates client requests for finance support and/or reports, ensuring that solutions balance and address business partner needs with overall Finance capabilities.
• Provides a range of strategic support through teams assigned on portfolios/journeys and provides relevant Finance insights/expertise and guidance to the program.
• Participates on internal/external committees as appropriate to provide advice/counsel to business/finance partners and/or represent TD's interests.
• Thinks beyond the organization and into the future, balancing multiple perspectives when setting direction or reaching conclusions (e.g., social, economic, partner, stakeholder interests, short- and long-term benefits, national and global implications).
• Plans resources and executes on strategic resourcing/professional practice-related activities, reviews and communicates team results, and adjusts methodologies/curriculum accordingly.
• Leads/supports the execution on the annual business plan to deliver results aligned with internal and/or partner business strategy.
• Manages overall budget, revenue, and expenditures to help meet business objectives while increasing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Proactively identifies key business opportunities, researches and recommends enhancements/modifications, develops strategies to achieve recommendations, and works closely with the team to execute and implement.
• Monitors and communicates the effectiveness of strategies, programs, and practices related to own area of expertise.
• Protects the interests of the organization – identifies and manages risks, and escalates non-standard, high-risk transactions/activities as necessary.
• Identifies, recommends, and supports the facilitation and/or implementation of action/remediation plans to address performance, risk, or governance issues.
• Keeps abreast of emerging issues, trends, and evolving regulatory requirements and assesses potential impacts.
• Maintains a culture of risk-based management and control, supported by effective processes in alignment with risk appetite.
• Ensures colleagues are knowledgeable and assumes responsibility to minimize operational and regulatory risk by complying with Bank and industry Code of Conduct.
• Effectively influences business partners towards favorable outcomes for TD shareholders.
• Aligns strategic planning and decision-making with global business strategy.
• Cultivates and models the Colleague Promise to support colleague growth and a culture of care; makes an impact at work and in communities by leading with authenticity and supporting well-being to represent TD's brand.
• Connects the alignment of colleagues' contributions with the TD Shared Commitments.
• Builds and retains an engaged and diverse team that embraces diversity of thought, creativity, and curiosity; where every colleague and customer are valued, respected, and listened to; committed to a common goal and collaborates to move with speed and get things done.
• Demonstrates inclusive leadership by taking meaningful action with intention to support colleagues and customers across all dimensions of diversity, including those from underrepresented communities, being actively anti-racist, attracting and retaining a diverse slate of candidates, nurturing mutual respect, inclusivity of thought, and collaboration to drive successful results.
• Sustains, identifies strong talent, recruits, and develops a diverse talent pipeline of qualified workforce to innovate and maximize individual strengths to lead to a better business outcome.
• Enables colleague growth by encouraging colleague development to achieve career and business objectives; ensuring timely feedback, motivating appreciation, and recognition to all colleagues.
• Enables a continuous learning culture by proactively seeking, listening to, and actioning feedback from peers and from colleague listening opportunities to continuously improve the colleague experience and grow personal leadership.
• Fosters an environment that promotes sharing of knowledge, information, skills, and subject matter expertise among the team; ensures timely management and escalation of issues and creates opportunities to collaborate with other functions and teams.
• Leads team through change and creates an environment where teams feel psychologically safe to challenge current practices by modeling resiliency and flexibility, communicating a compelling vision with clarity, and empowering colleagues to drive innovation.
• Contributes to the development of business segment and/or enterprise functional strategic priorities within their operational area or field of specialty that drive results.
• Develops annual and/or long-term plans for own area that are aligned with enterprise-wide priorities, reinforcing a focus on results that align to One TD.
• Fosters a high-performance culture by setting team targets and objectives, promoting and facilitating ongoing feedback/coaching, and conducting Check-Ins for all colleagues to drive accountability and business results.
• Manages employees in compliance with all human resources policies, procedures, and guidelines of conduct.
• Inspires followership and grooms existing talent for larger, more complex roles within the organization.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree; graduate degree preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant experience.
• Accounting or financial designation preferred.
• People management experience.
• Superior partnership skills to effectively interact and communicate with all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated time management and organizational skills to meet tight deadlines as well as flexibility to adapt to changing priorities.
• Ability to make an impact, influence, and achieve results with effective negotiation, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Skill in leading the effective development and execution of change management strategies and processes in a complex, multi-faceted business.

Preferred Skills

• Accounting experience preferred.
• Management reporting experience.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills. Ability to communicate complex information to senior leaders and key stakeholders.

Pay

$148,720 - $223,080 USD

TD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

Physical Requirements

• Domestic Travel: Occasional (1-33%)
• International Travel: Never (0%)
• Performing sedentary work: Continuous (67-100%)
• Performing multiple tasks: Continuous (67-100%)
• Operating standard office equipment: Continuous (67-100%)
• Responding quickly to sounds: Occasional (1-33%)
• Sitting: Continuous (67-100%)
• Standing: Occasional (1-33%)
• Walking: Occasional (1-33%)
• Moving safely in confined spaces: Occasional (1-33%)
• Lifting/Carrying (under 25 lbs.): Occasional (1-33%)
• Lifting/Carrying (over 25 lbs.): Never (0%)
• Squatting: Occasional (1-33%)
• Bending: Occasional (1-33%)
• Kneeling: Never (0%)
• Crawling: Never (0%)
• Climbing: Never (0%)
• Reaching overhead: Never (0%)
• Reaching forward: Occasional (1-33%)
• Pushing: Never (0%)
• Pulling: Never (0%)
• Twisting: Never (0%)
• Concentrating for long periods of time: Continuous (67-100%)
• Applying common sense to deal with problems involving standardized situations: Continuous (67-100%)
• Reading, writing