Head of Strategic Finance & Resource Allocation

About this role

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed.  We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

Job Description Seeking a Head of Strategic   Finance   & Resource Allocation,   a senior executive to   build and   lead   enterprise capability   for   forward-looking   financial strategy   and resource allocation decisions . This role provides decision support that guides strategic priorities, aligns investment choices with long-term   value creation , and   partners to   ensure capital and resources are   deployed   against the enterprise’s   highest-priority   opportunities.  

Essential Functions  

• Guide   enterprise capital allocation and resource allocation analysis across growth, cost, risk, and balance sheet priorities , extensively partnering with relevant stakeholders .  

• Frame and influence enterprise trade-offs across capital, cost structure, and growth investments, shaping MC- and BOD-ready decision inputs and narratives.  

• Provide forward-looking enterprise decision support to guide strategic priorities,   resource   deployment, and executive decision-making.  

• Leverage enterprise quantitative models, scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, and external risk perspectives to inform assumptions, options, and recommendations.  

• Deliver flexible and agile analytics solutions deployed to priority strategic problems, investment decisions, and emerging   strategic   questions.  

• In concert with Enterprise Strategy, provide strategic financial   partnership   to guide strategic initiatives and enterprise decision forums.  

• Deliver MC- and BOD-ready decision framing, executive materials, and recommendations that clarify choices, trade-offs, and implications.  

What Success Looks Like  

• Forward-looking, scenario-based decision support is consistently used to guide enterprise priorities and leadership decisions.  

• Resource   allocation choices are transparent, strategy-aligned, and grounded in clear trade-off analysis.  

• Executive teams spend more time making decisions and less time reconciling assumptions, options, or financial implications.  

• Priority strategic questions receive   timely,   agile analytics support that clarifies choices and accelerates action.  

• MC- and BOD-ready materials clearly connect strategy, financial outcomes, risks, and recommended actions.  

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Deep financial analysis, enterprise FP&A, capital allocation, and resource allocation   expertise .  

• Strong executive decision-framing skills, including the ability to translate complex analysis into clear choices, trade-offs, and recommendations.  

• Experience   leveraging   scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, stress testing, and external risk perspectives to inform strategic decisions.  

• Strategic vision and enterprise orientation, with the judgment to balance growth, cost, risk, and balance sheet priorities.  

• Proven ability to build collaborative relationships across Finance, Enterprise Strategy, business lines, and executive leadership forums.  

• Strong communication   and executive presence, including experience developing MC- and BOD-ready materials.  

• Demonstrated ability to build, lead, and scale high-performing analytical teams.  

• MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced finance, strategy, or quantitative credentials.  

• Experience spanning both strategy and finance, ideally in an enterprise or corporate finance leadership capacity.  

• Experience leading capital allocation, strategic finance, or resource allocation functions at a large financial institution.  

• Familiarity with bank balance sheet dynamics, regulatory expectations, economic outlooks, and enterprise risk considerations.  

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 .

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: • 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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here .

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.

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