Full-Time

Lead Financial Planning Analyst

Posted on 12/13/2025

Vanguard

Vanguard

10,001+ employees

Low-cost mutual funds and ETFs provider

No salary listed

No H1B Sponsorship

Malvern, PA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid work model; in-person collaboration with some remote days.

Category
Finance & Banking (1)
Required Skills
Financial analysis
Data Analysis
Financial Modeling
Requirements
  • Minimum of five years’ related work experience, with at least two years’ financial services industry experience.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Sponsorship: Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
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 and implements procedural changes, as needed. Structures and manages projects and ad-hoc requests.
  • Supports the financial development and growth of the team.
  • Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
Desired Qualifications
  • Economics or Finance degree preferred.
  • Graduate degree preferred.
  • CPA, CFM, CMA, or other financial designation preferred.
  • Experience on a Business Unit Financial Services Team (FST) preferred.

Vanguard is an American investment manager offering mutual funds, ETFs, brokerage services, retirement planning, financial planning, asset management, and trust services. Its funds pool money to invest in diversified portfolios, often tracking market indexes, with fees kept low for investors. The company is owned by its funds, which are owned by customers, aligning interests toward reducing costs and improving transparency and education. Its goal is to put investors first by providing low-cost, transparent investment products and resources to help people save and plan for the long term.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

Private

Total Funding

$11.2M

Headquarters

Kline Township, Pennsylvania

Founded

1975

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What believers are saying

  • Hyderabad GCC scales to 2,400 employees by 2029, expanding technology capacity.
  • Expert Insights embeds generative AI into advisor workflows in 2026.[9]
  • Investor Choice reaches nearly 22 million retail investors across 32 funds.[10]

What critics are saying

  • BlackRock poached Ursula Marchioni, weakening European multi-asset execution.
  • Generative AI portfolio guidance creates advice-liability and model-error exposure.[9]
  • Rapid Hyderabad expansion risks attrition, delays, and product-quality defects.

What makes Vanguard unique

  • Investor-owned structure aligns fees with clients, not outside shareholders.[3][4]
  • Largest mutual fund provider and second-largest ETF provider globally.[1][4]
  • Launches low-cost index, active, and all-in-one funds across regions.[3]

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Vanguard hires BlackRock's Marchioni as multi-asset head. Ursula Marchioni will join the European leadership team and report to Jon Cleborne 26 May 2026 Vanguard has hired BlackRock's Ursula Marchioni as its head of multi-asset and adviser solutions. As part of the newly-created role, Marchioni - who previously spent more than 13 years at BlackRock - will oversee the firm's MPS and multi-asset teams. She will also oversee Vanguard's Advisory Research Centre (ARC), as well as the portfolio analytics and consulting team. The role will see Marchioni join the European leadership team. She will report to Jon Cleborne, head of Europe. Prior to joining Vanguard, Marchioni was managing director, and head of investment and portfolio solutions EMEA, at BlackRock. She has also worked as head of ETF sales strategy at Credit Suisse Asset Management, and has held roles at Société Générale and KPMG. Commenting on Marchioni's appointment, Cleborne said: "I extend a warm welcome to Ursula on joining Vanguard. Her appointment underscores its commitment to the continued evolution of its multi-asset capabilities. "Ursula will be instrumental in leading our experienced teams, who play a key role in helping European and international clients build better portfolios, address their challenges, and adapt to changing market conditions." Marchioni added she is "proud to join Vanguard at an exciting time", as the firm continues to "broaden [its] offer and strengthen how [it] supports and partners with advisers across Europe and beyond". MORE ARTICLES ON

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