Senior Financial Analyst Jobs in Rhinelander, WI

Position Summary

The Senior Procurement Manager provides strategic leadership and execution across enterprise procurement activities, ensuring strong governance, commercial value creation, and effective risk management within a regulated financial services environment. This role partners closely with business leaders, including Legal, Risk, Compliance, IT, and Finance to drive disciplined sourcing, supplier management, and contract outcomes aligned to organizational objectives. The manager leads complex, highvalue sourcing initiatives, supports the creation and evolution of procurement policies and governance frameworks, and serves as a strategic advisor on vendor relationships, thirdparty risk, and commercial contract structuring while delivering measurable value through cost optimization, supplier performance management, and operational efficiency.Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead complex, high value sourcing initiatives across critical spend categories, including technology, professional services, audit, and consulting.
• Partner with vendor business relationship owners to manage new sourcing events, renewals, and strategic vendor negotiations.
• Develop and execute sourcing strategies that support cost savings, cost avoidance, and improved commercial outcomes.
• Drive long term value creation through supplier consolidation, demand management, and commercial innovation.
• Negotiate complex commercial and contractual arrangements, including provisions related to liability, data protection, intellectual property, regulatory audit rights, servicelevel agreements (SLAs), and termination rights.
• Serve as an escalation point for sensitive negotiations, supplier disputes, and audit or regulatordriven inquiries.
• Partner closely with Legal and Risk teams to ensure contract structures meet regulatory, risk, and governance expectations.
• Assist in developing, implementing, and evolving procurement policies, standards, and governance frameworks aligned with regulatory expectations (e.g., SOX, thirdparty risk management).
• Provide guidance and interpretation of procurement policies and procedures to internal stakeholders.
• Oversee vendor performance management for assigned suppliers or categories, including issue identification, escalation, and remediation for critical vendors.
• Establish and maintain strong, trusted relationships with strategic suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leaders across the organization on procurement strategy, supplier engagement, and commercial risk considerations.
• Collaborate crossfunctionally to support informed decisionmaking related to sourcing, contracting, and vendor management.
• Deliver clear, factbased insights and analysis to senior leaders to influence procurement outcomes and business decisions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of procurement processes, tools, and reporting.
• Support training and enablement efforts to improve procurement capabilities across the organization.
• Interact with internal clients and external suppliers while consistently delivering a high level of service and professionalism.
• Maintain confidentiality; adhere to company policies and procedures; comply with laws, regulations and industry best practices

Education & Experience

Knowledge of:

• Strategic sourcing, supplier management, and commercial negotiations in a regulated environment
• Procurement governance, thirdparty risk management, and internal control frameworks
• Complex contract structures and regulatory risk considerations

Ability to:

• Lead and execute high impact, enterprise level sourcing initiatives
• Influence senior stakeholders through data driven analysis and sound commercial judgment
• Manage multiple complex initiatives while balancing competing priorities
• Communicate clearly and effectively across technical, legal, and business audiences
• Lead sourcing and contract negotiations, ensuring execution in advance of contract expiration or service start dates to avoid any lapse in coverage or work performed at risk.

Education/Training:

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, supply chain or a related field

• 10-12 years of progressive procurement or strategic sourcing experience

Benefits and Compensation

Salary offered is based on factors, including but not limited to, the job duties, required qualifications and relevant experience, and local market trends. The role may be eligible for bonus or incentives based on company and individual performance.

(Base Pay Range: $98,000 - $140,000/annually)

Busey provides a competitive Total Rewards package in return for your time, talents, efforts and ultimately, results. Your personal and professional well-being-now and in the years to come-are important to us. Busey's Total Rewards include a competitive benefits package offering 401(k) match, profit sharing, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance and long-term disability, supplemental voluntary life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness incentives and an employee assistance program. In addition, eligible associates may take advantage of pre-tax health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts. Visit BuseyTotal Rewardsfor more information.

Equal Opportunity

Busey values a diverse and inclusive workplace and strives to recruit, develop and retain individuals with exceptional talent. A team with diverse talent, working together, is essential to Busey's commitment of delivering service excellence. Busey is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets. VisitBusey.com/Careersto learn more about Busey's Equal Opportunity Employment.

Unsolicited Resumes

Busey Bank, and its subsidiaries, does not accept any liability for fees for resumes from recruiters or employment agencies ("Agency"), without a binding, written recruitment agreement between Busey and Agency describing the services and specific job openings ("Agreement"). Busey may consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume and explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the Agency, unless an Agreement is in place. Any email or verbal contact with any Busey associate is inadequate to create a binding agreement. Agencies without an Agreement are requested not to contact any associates of Busey with recruiting inquiries or resumes. Busey respectfully requests no phone calls or emails