Vice President - Finance & Accounting - Insurance - CA/CPA

Position Title: Vice President - Finance & Accounting (Insurance)

Job Location: Gurugram

Role & Responsibilities:

- Oversee the finance & accounting teams

- Identify opportunities for both transformational and incremental improvement and drive changes

- Actively involved in the development of the change strategy and accountability for its implementation in compliance with group standards and regulations. Working within a fast moving and demanding environment with significant regulatory changes and strict timelines

- Focus on knowledge driven growth for the team

- Identify critical employees and create succession plans

- Support innovation in hiring strategies for finding the best talent pool

- Excellent verbal and written communication style. Ability to confidently build a strong rapport with project teams and the client.

- To work effectively with varying levels of people in finance function, various processes, PMO, IT as required, providing leadership and direction where required.

- Suggest improvement ideas to set up standard global operations

Qualification & Experience:

- Chartered Accountant/CPA with 18+ years of post-qualification experience

- Experience as a controller in a global environment (preferred)

- Good understanding of P&C and L&R Insurance products and experience of analyzing/understanding financials working in collaboration with other teams like actuarial, IT etc (preferred)

- Experience of understanding and challenging existing accounting treatments, and of the application of new requirements

- Experience of the planning and forecasting cycle in a large organization (preferred)

- US GAAP exposure