Manager - Product Control - BFSI

Principal Accountabilities :

Impact on the Business :

- Demonstrate strong understanding of the business and relevant accounting and valuation controls

- Lead and manage a team for multiple daily product control deliverables, timely and accurately

- Ask the right questions and challenge data integrity with practical recommendations for solutions

- Facilitate standardization of processes across entities

- Manage operational risk, including people and processes

- Ensure higher degree of governance and control mechanism

- Provide meaningful analysis to facilitate business decision-making

Customers / Stakeholders :

- Multiple entities global product control senior management, peers in GFC, and other stakeholders including in many instances front office dealers

- Ensure relevant MI is provided to and easily understood by stakeholders

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

- Timely and high quality response to queries from stakeholders

Leadership & Teamwork :

- High order staff engagement

- Work as One Team, with business partners overseas, with colleagues in GFC PC and GFC wide, and all other stakeholders relevant to the GM business

- Develop oneself, and develop the team towards high quality performance

- High quality behaviors demonstrating courageous integrity, dependable, open and connected

- Effective communications 360 degrees

- High quality performance management

Operational Effectiveness & Control :

- Adhere 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

- 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 manage change and business contingency and update the risk control assessment

- Ensure knowledge retention through documented procedures and cross training

- Ensure first time right

Skills/Experience Required :

- Chartered Accountant or CPA or equivalent accounting qualification, MBA (Finance) from a leading management institution with 10+ years of experience.

- Significant experience in Product Control, or in Global Markets Finance in a multinational environment

- Strong knowledge of Traded Markets products, such as FX, Money Markets, Securities, Derivatives, etc.

- Strong communication and presentation skills in English

- Preferred experience of having managed migrations of finance processes, and exposure to diverse/ multi-culture work environments with strong organisation, time management and prioritization skills, experience in Six Sigma/Lean methodology.