Vice President - COO Group Finance - BFSI

VP- COO Group Finance

Job Responsibilities:

- The role is a direct report to the COO - Group Finance in India

- Overall accountability is to support the COO team by providing operational oversight for Business Management, transformation and change activities.

- Cost, FTE and Business Management, including

- Manage Cost/FTE Budget, actual, forecast, allocation

- Ensuring delivery of cost commitments and Organization programmes

- E2E Business Management - operational, administrative & organization oversight

- Accurate Cost allocations and recharge as per agreed methodology

- Resource/ HC Management

- Expense Forecast, reporting, accruals etc.

- TOM investment / saves tracking

- Rate card validations

- Organization, People and Process Transformation

- Work across Finance function to drive optimization and transformation across organization, operations and people and processes

- Work with business and functional partners for most effective solutions for group finance including, Talent acquisition, development and retention.

- Stakeholder Interface

- Providing an effective and efficient interface between the Global COO, Business Management functions and local teams

- Providing the central interface for COO, operational and BM issues in local functions like Risk, technology, HR and other functional and business partners

- Management Reporting

- Headcount - Plan Vs actual, Flight Plans, HC Recon including attrition, bench, demographics etc.

- Infrastructure - Seats

- Management reports for review and oversight including analysis for key metrics

- Support Change Delivery

Provide local support for on time and on budget delivery of change programs

Accountabilities:

Cost Management

- Monitor, Report and provide oversight to any delegated approval authority

Financial Planning & Analysis

- Creation of plans and forecasts

- Monitoring and controlling actual costs

- Governance of saves/efficiency commitments

- Tracking of resource deployment etc

Management Reporting

- Provide timely and relevant MI for GF governance

- Ensure any key risks are highlighted via governance forums

- Provide MI required for key management decisions both on pre agreed metrics as well as adhoc requirements including financial, HC, infrastructure etc.

Compliance and Governance

- Work with the Risk and Compliance teams to ensure GF operates in a controlled environment

Support delivery of TOM

Support on people and operational processes

- People processes - Talent attract, develop and retain

- Tracking of projects

Communication and engagement

Qualifications

- MBA Finance or equivalent preferred

- COO/Operational and/or Business Management Experience

- Relevant experience in global organization's and delivery to tight timelines

- Experience of Process Management, Business Management and cost/FTE management

- A strong culture builder agent

- Ability to build constructive relationships and communicate in a global matrixed organization

- Energy and resilience to maintain progress against challenging targets

- Capable of acting at speed along with balancing control requirements

- Ability to deal with ambiguity, simplify outputs and recommendations in a dynamic environment

- Builds Self Insight

- Developing others & Enabling high performance

- Building long term, trusted relationships & Working Collaboratively

- Making critical decisions

- Defining and executing change including Driving CI and innovation

- Building an effective Control Environment

- High on integrity and acts in an open and honest way

- Focused on Service and Excellence by setting high standards for self and team