Associate - Finance - Corporate Advisory - CMA/CA

Business Overview:

CMA team in Mumbai is an extension of the Global CMA team providing Analytical and Quantitative Support to the onshore teams. Team caters to Monthly book closure as well as MIS requirements of senior management across company (Retail, Wholesale, Corporate divisions) and regions (Japan, AeJ, EMEA and US). Team is responsible for monthly and quarterly reporting of Revenues, Expenses and other financial resources. Within CMA, Cost Control team caters to month end close and MIS requirements and provides Cost analytics to senior management of company division across all regions. The team is comprised of dedicated regional groups based in Powai supporting Global stakeholders in Europe, Asia-Ex, Japan and US

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title: Associate

Functional Title: Manager

Experience: 5-7 years

Qualification: Postgraduate / MBA / CA

Role & Responsibilities:

Mind Set:

- Strong communication skills with an ability to directly coordinate with global stakeholders

- Strong analytical skills and ability to perform under pressure

- Basic accounting knowledge

- Problem solver and ability to work independently

- Financial Services industry exposure

Basic understanding of Investment Banking products

- Focus on driving process streamlining / improvements and creating efficiencies

Technical:

- Strong Excel and PPT

- Essbase

- Hands on experience in SQL / PowerBI would be an added advantage

- Support Cost Management & Analytics team in managing month end close and cost allocation across regions and functions as well as for business

- Conduct variance analysis for Corporate and Business Costs from various perspectives (Region, Nominals, Themes, etc.). Build storylines and themes on cost performance

- Reporting key financials, producing key analytics and insightful commentaries

- Performing be-spoke deep dives analysis for Corporate and Business, including allocations to provide meaningful insights to business, to approve / disapprove underlying hypotheses

- Producing senior management decks analyzing performance across key parameters

- Review and analyse expenses to identify any potential error or inaccuracies and drive corrections and adjustments

- Re-engineer existing processes and report enhancements through system changes or process refinements to drive efficiency, governance and transparency

- Assisting in projects at company or group level and drive completion and implementation

- Maintain and review SOP's and ensure they are updated at all times

- Involve in budgeting and forecast exercise, providing On-Demand ad hoc analytics

Leadership Behaviours:

- Leadership

- Behaviours Description Element

- Exploring Insights & Vision

- Comprehensively analyse the nature of the problems we face and set our
focus toward the future vision

- Gather Intelligence

- Create a vision

- Identify an issue

- Making Strategic

- Decisions

- Analyse options and feasibility to resolve issues, in making judgments and recommendations

- Identify countermeasures

- Assess feasibility

- Make a judgment

- Inspiring

- Entrepreneurship in People

- Promotes the vision and goals to others in such a way that inspires commitment and independent contributions

- Influence

- Inspire

- Commit

- Elevating

- Organizational

- Capacity

- Maximize organizational productivity through leadership development and engagement

- Have an ownership in own development

- Support other's growth

- Encourage organizational growth

- Inclusion

- Respect diverse perspectives and promote psychological safety and the creation of a risk culture

- Foster psychological safety

- Encourage the active participation of all talent

- Foster a risk culture