Lending and Trade Services Financial Reporting Consultant

LTS Financial Reporting Analyst
The Financial Reporting Analyst will work independently using knowledge of lending operations and systems to ensure information needs are met in a concise, accurate and timely fashion and will evaluate reporting requests with business partners and other stakeholders to provide solution options.

Position Responsibilities:

• Ensure accurate, timely and fully compliant reporting with financial & regulatory reporting standards such as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), BASEL, FFIEC, Sarbanes Oxley and other applicable guidance and in accordance with Comerica's risk control environment, through maintenance of functional knowledge of current regulatory reporting requirement.
• Represent LTS Financial Reporting and Analytics as the decision maker for new products/transactions in accordance with applicable regulatory requirements and adherence to Comerica policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with Corporate functions and leadership to ensure compliance with regulations and Comerica's internal policies.
• Anticipate business partner needs through forward thinking analytics, gained by establishing a regular cadence to understand business operations combined with superior knowledge of data available, reporting tools and relevant system applications.
• Manage the internal LTS business unit/service ownership relationships to provide value-added analytics and reporting to facilitate risk monitoring and process efficiencies.
• Drive collaboration and represent LTS as the lead with Corporate Finance, Credit Administration, Data Governance and Enterprise Risk leadership to ensure compliance of reporting with various systems, strategic discussions, eliminating key person dependencies and manual processes.
• Represent LTS FR&A in guided decision making for initiatives or technology projects throughout the Bank.
• Provide guidance to team during evaluation of new requests from business partners, partner with Risk to ensure department controls are operating effectively and recommend improvements in other areas of operations based on data analytics performed independently.