Senior Lead Finance Analyst - Branch Banking

Wells Fargo is seeking a Senior Lead Finance Analyst to own and elevate branch production forecasting and analytics for our national branch network. In this highly visible role, you'll shape the story for branch sales across multiple product lines, delivering insights that influence strategy, drive growth, and support executive decision-making. As the go-to finance partner for sales leaders, you will provide clear, data-driven narratives that illuminate banker productivity and account production trends. Additionally, you will develop business cases and ad-hoc analysis to accelerate results within the branch channel.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end reporting, forecasting, and analysis of account production for Consumer deposits & lending products and investment referrals.
• Develop and maintain robust analytics, metrics, and reporting to drive insights and improved financial outcomes.
• Design, build, and maintain data-driven business cases to evaluate strategic and financial outcomes.
• Support the business with incentive compensation design, including complete modeling and reporting on incentive plans.
• Prepare and present executive-level materials that clearly communicate production forecasts/trends, key drivers of performance, and incentive compensation outcomes to leadership.
• Advise senior leaders on key growth strategies balancing cost and revenue.
• Build strong relationships and partner closely with Branch strategy teams, line of business product teams, and Finance to drive results and execute deliverables.
• Develop expertise in reporting that meets brand and internal control standards.
• Resolve issues and achieve goals through collaboration and consultation with peers, colleagues, and managers.
• Champion process improvement initiatives focused on automating and streamstreamlining forecasting and reporting workflows.
• Introduce new ideas and challenge the status quo to drive efficiency and quality in reporting and analysis.

Requirements

7+ years of Finance experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.

Qualifications

• Effective communication skills with senior leaders, both written and verbal.
• Ability to prepare management-level presentations.
• Strong analytical skills with high attention to detail and accuracy.
• P&L financial management and forecasting experience.
• Experience with Essbase and emerging AI technologies (e.g., Copilot).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office; advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint is preferred.
• Ability to execute in a fast-paced, high-demand environment while balancing multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated experience fostering strong partnerships, promoting teamwork, and influencing others.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and across all organizational levels, where flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability are important.
• Ability to synthesize data, work with ambiguity, and make recommendations to executive leaders.

Job Expectations

This position offers a hybrid work schedule from our Charlotte, NC (550 S. Tryon St. or 11625 N. Community House Road), Minneapolis, MN, Des Moines, IA, or Irving, TX locations. Relocation assistance is not available for this position, and it is not eligible for Visa sponsorship.

Pay

$159,000.00 - $279,000.00

Benefits

• Health benefits
• 401(k) Plan
• Paid time off
• Disability benefits
• Life insurance, critical illness insurance, and accident insurance
• Parental leave
• Critical caregiving leave
• Discounts and savings
• Commuter benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Scholarships for dependent children
• Adoption reimbursement