About the Job

The Associate Director Site Finance, India is a strategic role encompassing all areas of Finance for SVBs India entity. The role is instrumental in planning, implementing, managing and controlling financial-related activities of the overall Entity. The person will ensure the timeliness, accuracy and integrity of all financial data and make certain that adequate controls are in place as per Indian and global regulatory and financial control requirements.

We are looking for an experienced and hands-on finance leader to come in and drive strategy, planning, control and reporting of financial information across SVB India. S/he will be a key member of the India Leadership team.

The ideal candidate will:

Possess extensive finance expertise, outstanding strategic and analytical acumen, strong and deep accounting operations knowledge and a collaborative mindset. The person will work closely with global and local business leadership teams, outsourced providers and internal finance teams to uplift existing processes, implement necessary controls and build a holistic financial reporting model for the entity.

This leadership role reporting into the India MD & Country Head will have the following responsibilities:

- Provide day-to-day leadership to the finance, accounting, vendor management, corporate analytics, financial planning, corporate development and tax functions as it relates to the India business unit in a way that is consistent with group wide policy, procedures and financial controls

- Provide direction and advice to the India and global Leadership team on a wide range of financial and non-financial matters including strategic planning, risk, capital planning, and financial management

- Present consistent, transparent financial reporting with strategic financial implications to India Steering Committee, any Audit and Risk Committees and communicate regularly with them to support overall corporate goals.

- Work with global cross-functional teams to plan, oversee and drive delivery of accounting reports, financial statements, filing documents and manage SOX and financial audits related to India

- Provide thought leadership on India financial regulatory landscape, highlight key areas or urgency where changes are required and lead advocacy initiatives with peers to support common interests of financial institutions.

- Lead process improvement initiatives across the Site finance function, and partner with colleagues to work on enterprise wide projects in the Finance, Accounting, Tax and Treasury function.

- Manage the annual operating and capital expenditure budget to deliver the quarterly rolling forecast, the multi-year forecast and the India Entity's capital plan.

- Assist with the preparation of business forecasting, capital and liquidity aspect for annual and other periodic filing purposes

- Ensure proper accounting and financial management controls, policies, and procedures to ensure the integrity of financial statements and reports; certify as to the accuracy of all financial reports; provide interpretation and analysis of regulatory accounting as it affects the company

- Provide insight into the conversion of the Financial reports into the necessary various international accounting standards required.

- Have stellar communication and strong public speaking ability, and actively engage with our client community.

- Provide a high level of leadership, coaching, development and cross-training opportunities for finance colleagues within the Bank.

Once Here You Will:

Collaborating and Influencing

- Facilitates discussions to enable people to collaborate with each other independently; promotes collaboration across multiple parties.

- Identifies and meets with key players and stakeholders to help them shape a consensus collectively and engages in a dialogue to reach a final conclusion together, compromising as necessary for results.

- Develops explicit understanding of which relationships are most important to the organization and its stakeholders, builds a network prioritizing these relationships.

- Effective, high energy business partner with the ability to influence, collaborate, and work across the organization, with the CFO, CAO, controllers, treasury, tax and other finance leaders.

Strategic Thinking

- Challenges assumptions and conventional wisdom with specific, supported, reasoned proposals.

- Contributes to the development of an organizational strategy and justifies it with market insight.

- Thinks 3-5 years ahead into next business cycle.

Driving Results

- Enables higher performance by incrementally improving approaches based on calculated risks and benefits.

- Benchmarks company's performance against industry best practices.

- Proactively seeks to improve processes and implement best in class solutions, raising quality and productivity in a calculated way.

- Identifies new processes and/or systems to improve productivity and/or make the business more efficient.

Education & Experience:

- Minimum 12+ years of relevant experience

- Bachelors degree and accountancy qualification or equivalent education

- CPA or Chartered Accountant qualification required

- Experience of working with US Banking Organizations in a similar capacity is an advantage

- Experience working in Global Capability Centers

- Experience working with SEZ, India local financial regulatory bodies and tax authorities

- Qualified Chartered Accountant / CPA

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