/ ABOUT·FP&A & finance transformation executive · AI-enabled builder

Fifteen years
in the engine room
of regional banks.

Alex Cardell
FIG. 01 · ALEX CARDELL
FP&A · Transformation · Regional Banks
PROFILE SNAPSHOT

Alex Cardell

FP&A and finance transformation executive — fifteen years across regional banks from $15B to $125B in assets. I lead the planning, profitability, and analytics functions that put honest numbers in front of CEOs, CFOs, and boards — and I personally build the AI-enabled systems that keep them honest, from governed forecasting platforms to the agentic tools on this site.

Experience15+ years
CurrentDirector, Enterprise Analytics & Finance Transformation
Scale$15B–$125B regional banks
FocusFP&A · profitability · AI-enabled transformation
OP_L·Log

A short, honest timeline.

Southeastern U.S. footprint with Pinnacle Financial Partners and Synovus branding
2025-PresentPinnacle Financial Partners (Synovus merger of equals)

Director, Enterprise Analytics & Finance Transformation

Leading the post-merger Finance Enterprise Analytics & Transformation team for a combined $117B bank — consolidating four LOB analytics groups into one enterprise function, and advancing the transformation through AI-assisted development, Databricks, and workflow automation.

  • Team of 10 across four consolidated groups
  • Segment & banker KPI reporting to the advisor level
  • Business-case-to-pro-forma & project-ROI frameworks
2023-2025Synovus

Director, Strategic Finance

Led Strategic Finance for Wholesale Banking ($25B loans), Corporate & Investment Banking, and Treasury Payment Solutions — the FP&A seat in CEO/CFO quarterly business reviews.

  • Driver-based forecasting & peer benchmarking
  • Client-level profitability — the Banker Dashboard
  • M&A finance diligence lead · live MOE integration
2022-2023Synovus

Senior FP&A Manager

Built and deployed the bank’s financial analytics platform within six months of hire — a 50M+ record model connecting ERP/GL to loan, deposit, securities, and profitability drivers.

  • Power BI / SQL / SAS platform
  • The bank’s most-used dashboard
  • Enterprise data model groundwork
2014-2022First Horizon (formerly IBERIABANK)

VP, FP&A & Analytics Manager

Owned FP&A for the $40B+ geography-based Regional Banking segment — and took its reporting team from peer laggard to peer leader.

  • Team of 8 · Empyrean budgeting & forecasting
  • Market & LOB profitability analytics
  • Merger branch density & staffing studies
2013-2014Regions Financial

Asset Liability Analyst

QRM balance-sheet, NII, and risk-scenario modeling in Corporate Treasury — contributing to ALCO packages, CCAR, and M&A rate-risk analysis.

  • ALCO & CCAR support
  • Deposit beta & rate-risk simulation
  • M&A rate-neutrality modeling
2011-2013Regions Financial

Finance Development Program

Rotational finance leadership program across the investment portfolio, investor relations, and asset/liability management.

  • Due diligence on a $23B portfolio
  • IR: investor targeting & activist defense
  • Early executive exposure
OP_M·Coverage map

The bank FP&A space, mapped against my portfolio.

Six functional systems and 60 capabilities of a bank FP&A mandate — every node scored by role experience plus the agentic tools I've shipped, with each product's territory drawn over the ground it covers. Hover a capability for the receipts; chips link to each product.

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OP_CC·Core competencies

Six systems, one operator.

The map above scores sixty capabilities. Underneath them sit six functional systems every bank FP&A function runs on — here's where I've carried each one.

01

Enterprise planning & outlook

Driver-based forecasting and scenario modeling with governed assumptions — a 60-month planning platform where AI proposes, deterministic code computes, and a human approves. Budget cycles run on a published calendar with structured buy-in, from a $40B segment to a $117B enterprise.

02

Reporting, performance & insight

Segment reporting at a public-bank standard — company to segment to the individual banker. The QBR seat with CEOs and CFOs, variance that decomposes into drivers, and peer benchmarking grounded in regulatory data, never anecdote.

03

Business partnership & allocation

Embedded finance partnership for commercial, CIB, and treasury businesses. Business-case-to-pro-forma and project-ROI frameworks, two-tier investment governance, expense discipline with a productivity link, and incentive design aligned to strategy.

04

Balance sheet, earnings & capital

Two ALM seats: QRM balance-sheet, NII, and risk-scenario modeling, ALCO packages, CCAR/DFAST. Today: the FTP working group, deposit-beta modeling, and a system that connects Treasury assumptions back to LOB assumptions.

05

Strategic transactions & transformation

Led finance diligence on an acquisition — revenue and workforce durability, normalized earnings power, retention design. A live merger-of-equals integration. De novo market and banker-liftout playbooks, productized.

06

Operating model, data & talent

Consolidated four analytics groups into one enterprise function of ten. A 50M+ record data model behind the bank’s most-used dashboard. Peer laggard to peer leader, twice — and a bench built on autonomy, domain authority, and distillation.

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