AVP - Business Finance - BFSI

AVP - Business Finance

Principal Accountabilities :

Key activities and decision making areas Typical KPIs and Targets :

- Set up / Management of HOST Reporting processes with creation & development of reporting packs

- Participate in, and possibly lead, Flash calls with the regions and functions and then draft preliminary commentaries for Flash and key HOST reports

- Maintain, update and continually improve central forecasting model used to support central Top Down Guidance for latest estimates and plan

- Preparation of cost and FTE walks in support of the cost management programme analysis to facilitate quarterly cost management forums

- Review of non financial metrics and support for analysis linking non-financial metrics to financial performance

- Support on projects, for example historic data clean-up, Group systems migrations,

- Ad-hoc analysis in support of requests from senior management across the business and finance

Customers / Stakeholders :

- Establish and maintain effective relationship with business areas and identify areas of service improvements by implementing regular calls and feedback mechanism

- Influence and escalate key customer issues in an effective way to ensure timely resolution

- Continuous reviews of the customer issues and ensure products and services are tailored on an ongoing basis to meet expectation.

Leadership & Teamwork :

- Effective communication with the team members on organization strategy and goals required for the respective roles and responsibilities

- Motivate, develop, reward and recognize team members in order to meet process deliverables, manage staff expectations, achieve efficiency in operations and maintain work-life balance.

- Create an environment within the team which fosters free sharing of knowledge & ideas

- Develop the soft skills and technical competency of team by putting together a personal development plan

- Timely and accurate MI produced with minimal queries against required deadlines

Operational Effectiveness & Control :

- Adherence to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including but not limited to Declaration of secrecy, data protection act, health, safety and security, clear desk policy

- To continually assess the operational risks inherent in the processes, taking account of changing operating procedures, staff movements, legal and regulatory requirements, management restructures, and the impact of new technology.

- Effectively drive and manage change, plan business contingency and achieve cross-training

- Ensuring BCP plan is documented, agreed with business partner and tested as per agreed timelines.

Skills :

- B.Com, CA (Inter) with 12+ or CA/CWA/MBA with 10 + years of experience in Financial Planning, Reporting & Analysis / Period-end close / Global

- Consolidation of a organization of similar scale within US GAAP, IFRS, IAS reporting framework

- Knowledge of HOST functions and processes will be added advantage.

- Knowledge of Financial Control in a Banking / Financial Services Environment with exposure to Banking products