Financial Planning & Analysis Role - Bank

Core Responsibilities :

- Lead the Mumbai FP&A team to own core forward looking processes including annual plan, monthly outlooks and CCAR related processes

- Lead the Mumbai FP&A teams to ensure greater involvement and ownership of performance management processes including periodic business reviews with finance and business heads, quarter end earnings preparation and monthly business performance reviews

- Partner with finance heads globally to drive strategic initiatives to re-align business performance with established annual and multi-year strategic targets

- Drive FP&A transformation efforts as part of continuous process improvements and partnering with other teams to create tools/capabilities required to generate insights

- Establish effective talent management programs to grow existing staff's capabilities and to attract high performing resources from external sources

- Ensure adherence to Mumbai FP&A center's risk and control requirements by the team

- Play an impactful role within the Mumbai FP&A Analytical center to drive center wide initiatives and be an advisor to the leadership team

- Manage large finance/analytical team supporting core planning and analysis across all regions

- Interaction with people at all levels from different areas of the organization (finance, business, risk etc.)

- Participating in conducting training sessions on Policy/Analysis for the Analysts/Junior Analysts in the team

- Demonstrates a comprehensive understanding of country, regional, and global stakeholders and their needs

- Thinks of new solutions and mechanisms to meet stakeholder needs

- Analyses stakeholder feedback and improves products and the Service Delivery Model to enhance stakeholder satisfaction levels

- Clarifies stakeholder requirements and develops approaches to address them

- Approaches problem in an informed and logical manner for its solution and differentiate problems and their symptoms

- Collects information from different sources to identify patterns, trends and solutions

- Fosters and facilitates collaborative problem solving and decision making

- Integrates and synthesizes potentially conflicting information to arrive at clear and timely decision

- Brings cross-disciplinary knowledge to bear on business issues and opportunities

- Sponsors unconventional ideas/projects that may lead to organizational breakthroughs, applies vision and entrepreneurial skills to identify and implement new and innovative approaches to drive business results

- Acknowledges differing points of views and assertively takes measures to resolve them by developing concurrence across teams and hence looking for win-win solutions

- Encourages diversity of views, opinions and styles to foster members to take initiative and collaborate with others to solve problems

Qualifications/Experience/Knowledge/Skills :

- Chartered Accountant or MBA - Finance with at least 9 years of FP&A experience

- Should have worked in a senior role with a Bank and should have good knowledge of banking products

- Highly articulate in verbal presentations as well as written communications

- Demonstrated strength in detailed financial analysis

- Strong communications (written, verbal and interpersonal) skills, including tact, diplomacy, and ability to influence senior-level executives

- Integrity, maturity, dependability, a positive professional attitude

- A leader who will implement initiatives effectively and motivate others to carry out their work

- Excellent organizational and project management skills

- Strategic mindset to integrate business strategy into all communications

- Track record of success in delivering high-quality work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment

- Ability to multi-task effectively and efficiently

- Knowledge of Financial systems, processes and structures a plus

- Past experience managing mid-sized teams