Vanguard

Financial Services

LeadFinancialPlanningAnalyst

$145–215k ~AI est. Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for Lead candidates.

The Brief

“Lead Financial Planning Analyst at Vanguard. Skills: Financial planning, Financial modeling, Profitability analysis. Lead initiatives and goals. Conduct complex analyses”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Analytical initiatives

Eligibility Requirements

No visa sponsorship

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Five years related work experience, Two years financial services industry experience

Nice to Have

Economics or Finance degree preferred, Graduate degree preferred, CPA, CFM, CMA, or other financial designation preferred

What You'll Do.

Lead initiatives and goals

Conduct complex analyses

Provide thought leadership

Conduct evaluation reviews

Establish subject matter expertise

Create presentations for senior leaders

Own enterprise channel and product costing models

Implement systematic approach to maintain models

Provide support and input into pricing

Manage responses to requests for information

Identify opportunities to improve financial services

Implement procedural changes

Structure and manage projects

Support financial development and growth of team

Participate in special projects

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Enterprise stakeholders; Internal clients

Communication Scope

Presentations for senior leaders

Process & Methodology

Manage projects

Full Job Description

The Lead Financial Analyst role offers the opportunity to support Financial Advisor Services (FAS) from a FP&A perspective, driving complex forecasting, financial modeling, and profitability analysis across products and distribution channels. The position plays a key role in shaping financial strategy by leading analytical initiatives, enhancing costing models, and delivering insights to senior leadership that inform business decisions and growth. With strong exposure to enterprise stakeholders, this role blends technical financial expertise with strategic influence, supporting continuous improvement, pricing decisions, and scalable financial frameworks across the FAS business. **Responsibilities:** * Leads initiatives and goals focusing on complex financial analysis supporting enterprise or divisional stakeholders. Conducts complex analyses such as forecasting and financial modeling. * Provides thought leadership to the development of financial methodologies and approaches. Conducts ad hoc and periodic evaluation reviews to help assess the profitability of product lines and distribution channels. * Establishes and deploys subject matter expertise across the financial, accounting and regulatory areas to support complex client matters. Creates presentations for senior leaders to inform on financial performance. * Owns enterprise channel and product costing models and the production of end user cost matrices for internal team use. Implements systematic approach to maintaining and continuously improve the models. Provides support and input into client and product pricing. * Manages responses to requests for information related to internal business statistics and trends. Engages appropriate resources to support requests, determines appropriate sources of information, collects, compiles, interprets, analyzes and summarizes results in alignment with the overall business strategy. * Identifies opportunities to improve the delivery of financial services to internal clients

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