Senior Vice President - Financial Planning & Analysis - Investment Bank

The position is based in Mumbai and Bangalore and will cover the following functions:

- Strong exposure to business management and reporting

- Month end reporting - support month-end close by reviewing and approving prior-period adjustments

- Forecasting expenses & headcount (monthly)

- Monthly MIS Flash and final reporting deck with comments and analysis.

- Yearly planning exercise.

- Allocation rules & billing models to recover function costs from supported businesses

- Headcount tracking and reporting in liaison with the Business Managers, Central PMO. Regular forecasting of headcount projections to the MBM operations executive, his DRs and the Global CFO- s

- Liaise with product and function CFOs to understand the drivers of business variance

- Maintenance of reference data

- Play a proactive role in enhancing the current BAU processes

- Support the monthly Investment Initiatives reporting process

- Adhoc requests and projects.

- The role is an individual contributor role and will not involve direct people management but will require stakeholder management skills

- Qualified accountant with at least 8-10 years post qualification experience

- Positive, pro-active, can-do attitude and strong control mindset

- Ability to multi-task and deliver quality work under pressure

- Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills including Excel and PowerPoint

- Ability to develop and leverage strong network of contacts throughout the organisation

- Working knowledge of finance tools like Essbase / Business Objects would be an added advantage.

- Good MS Office skills - especially MS Excel

- Ability to work with teams in multiple locations across different time zones

- Strong orientation to details and strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Competencies :
 
- Team player

- Self motivated

- Problem solver

- Deadline focused

- Reasoned decision taker