Senior Leadership Role - Financial Planning & Analysis - BFSI

It requires deep understanding & knowledge of Corporate Banking products - No Financial Controller

- Interaction with extremely senior stakeholders All global & regional product CFOs & Heads

- Strong people management skills - large team of 100+ people

- Drive key transformation projects & re-engineering projects globally.

- Play a key role in supporting implementation of Business Initiatives with respect to the Balance Sheet, Expenses & profitability.

- End to end responsibility& ownership- Play a key role in Planning & monthly outlook process and other critical MIS/analysis. Drive preparation and analysis of Key Management Review Decks for Regional & Global Business Heads with respect to theP&L, Headcount, Cost of Credit and Balance Sheet analysis

- Identify and enable opportunities for automation, process enhancements & reduce production time to allow more time for analysis. Streamline / reduce redundancies, standardize and implement best practices across regions/products.

Relationship Management with very senior FP&A leaders, CFOs and other groups like risk, treasury etc.

Guide the team to develop controls, accuracy, enhanced MIS and analytics

Candidates Profile:

- Chartered Accountant or MBA Finance with at least 15 years of progressive experience across finance functions like Business/financial Planning, Controllership, CFO support, Reporting etc. Must have worked in a senior challenging role with a Bank, Financial Institution or Banking.

- Strong understanding of Banking business, P&A process and CFO function

- Excellent financial analysis and management reporting background

- Excellent presentation skills

- Experienced in Microsoft Office (including PowerPoint, Excel & Word).

- Team Management - should have managed large analytical teams.

- Ability to effectively communicate

- Very strong analytical and problem solving skills. Able to synthesize large amounts of data and provide business insights/analysis that will help in decision making.Attention to detail is an essential part of the job

- Adaptability, multitasking and strong project management skills

- Demonstrate an ability to learn and desire to develop and improve by challenging status quo

- Interpersonal skills (ability to work with colleagues at all levels across multiple locations)

- Ability to build key relationships with finance and business heads & teams

- Highly motivated, participative team player with a change agent mentality that can provide leadership

- Ability to influence people and empower team members to be proactive and focused on partnerships and results

- Highly motivated, participative team player with a change agent mentality that can provide leadership.

- Experience working with data and knowledge of financial reporting tools such as Essbase would be a plus.