Manager, Corporate Strategy & Planning

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What you'll do:

• Partners closely with the Corporate Strategy leadership team and line of business executives to support the development & execution of the bank-wide Strategic Plan utilizing data-informed business insights.
• Aligned to one of the bank's Chief Banking Officers to support their strategic priorities for the Bank, develop their annual strategic plans, and proactively identify issues to help mitigate enterprise risks.
• Partners with LOB Leaders to help identify, assess & lead strategy projects, gathered from the Strategic Planning process, to enhance business performance and drive shareholder value.
• Serve as a Strategic Business Partner to the Head of Digital Assets to define & advance the bank's Digital Asset Strategy, maintaining a pulse on the evolving crypto industry to support aligning enterprise capabilities with market trends to shape the LOB Product Roadmap & deliver differentiated customer value.
• Drive growth strategy by partnering with business units and technology teams to execute strategic initiatives for technology-enabled deposit solutions (HOA banking, Juris Banking & Corporate Trust). Serve as a key liaison to align priorities, identify critical investments, and accelerate business expansion.
• Foster stakeholder relationships with Corporate Support Functions (Product, Risk, Marketing, HR, & Operations) to drive alignment and enhance business execution that drives growth efforts for the LOB leaders.
• Gather market research and related analysis to define target markets around potential transactions for organic or inorganic growth opportunities based on evolving environment & industry landscape.
• Supports the LOB's Quarterly Business Review meetings to ensure alignment of business initiatives, KPI's, KRIs, Execution Risk, Operational Plans, and financial planning towards the bank's Strategic Plan.
• Provides advisory on relevant trends, emerging technologies & insights from the banking industry to ensure proper alignment of communication to deliver enterprise-wide business solutions.
• Comfortable with a 10-15% travel schedule to attend offsite executive planning sessions and to attend various banking & industry aligned conferences to gather industry insights.

What you'll need:

• 6+ years of relevant experience through management consulting, strategy consulting, or internal strategic planning / corporate strategy within the Banking industry - MBA desired.
• Experience driving large initiatives from framing the problem, conducting research / analysis to building the business & operational plans to drive Digital Asset, HOA Banking, & other Specialty Escrow strategies forward.
• Practical expertise across payment rails (ACH, wires, SWIFT, RTP) integrating within the digital asset ecosystem
• Experience creating & presenting executive level PowerPoint presentations for executive stakeholders while managing ambiguity throughout the creative process.
• Experience with market intelligence data gathering tools such as S&P Global; various Govt & Global databases.
• Entrepreneurial and proactive in identifying opportunities and solutions utilizing your strong business acumen and analytical problem-solving skills to help inform decision-making for senior leaders.
• (A Plus) Familiarity with financial evaluations, corporate finance / acquisition modeling, due diligence, and various valuation methodologies for organic and inorganic growth opportunities.

Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

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