Vice President - Finance Systems Operations

This role will come under Global Finance Operations which is the backbone of Global Finance and has ~ 55% of Finance headcount across five locations NCR, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore and Krakow.

Digital Enablement is pivotal to the success of Finance in times to come. The digital enablement team in Finance System Operations (FSO) is aiming to work with Global Process Owners on Lite Automation Initiatives and encourage reuse of scalable solutions across Finance.

The solutions shall entail process automation, identification of duplicates by pattern matching and meta data analysis to a consolidation/collaborative solution for enhanced controls implementation.

The Opportunity :

The incumbent of this role will be an analyst/developer who is hands on with delivery of automation initiatives and has expert/advanced level of knowledge on Xceptor, Microsoft Power Automate, Python, GitHub and SQL.

The role will also include technical evaluation of current problem statements, data collation, management reporting, solution development, change and other implementation activities. This role would be expected to be at the center of how Finance Operations shapes, delivers and embeds automation changes, working with the GPO's and our other delivery partners.

What you'll do:

- The role is expected to work collaboratively with the Global Process owners, project/program managers, internal process and business, external vendors, delivery partners including IT/ITID and subject matter experts to support and deliver targets as per the Change and Implementation approach, Terms of Reference (ToR), achieving milestones as per respective Project plans.

- Perform business analysis which entails translating business requirements & designs into detailed functional requirements followed by development of a technical solution.

- The role will lead to the candidate work in the build, data collation, analysis activities would also be in scope, initiation, requirements management and developing solution designs for problem statements involving the requirements of EUC reduction, Effort saves and/or Strengthening of controls.

- The role will also encompass project management activities such as change planning and audience analysis; through to designing and delivering change interventions (e.g. communications, training, support, Organisation alignment); and tracking and taking actions on change readiness, adoption, and feedback as prescribed by Change Governance Framework.

- Understanding and interpreting the data calculations and validation within the application.

- Evidencing a proactive approach - it is fundamental for this role that all stakeholders are kept informed of the progress of issues raised towards resolution

- Strong understanding of implementing various automation tools on large scale Banking / Finance projects is a must

- End to end understanding of the process within the agreed timelines or learning curve.

- The level of performance is in sync with the target set as per the SLA/KPI.

- Partnering with the IT for various systems to design and implement solutions as per requirement

- Responsible for the coordination and governance of controls used in the system.

- Evaluating technologies available for the implementing the solution

- Demonstrates Values with utmost professionalism

- Conduct trainings (if needed) as a subject matter expert for Xceptor, Microsoft Power Automate, Python, Qlik, GitHub, SQL and be a mentor/guide for the aspirants wishing to learn the digital technologies

Qualifications :

What you will need to succeed in the role :

Skills / Experience :

- Experience of leading and executing large scale process automation projects in Banking / Finance industry

- Excellent interpersonal skills to communicate effectively with team members/wider business including senior executive management and ability to develop a good rapport in challenging situations

- Ability to work in large teams across multiple locations and able to cope with pressure & tight deadlines

- Strong presentation creation, delivery, problem solving and influencing skills

- Assertive, with a positive attitude and an open mind

- Experience in working/trouble shooting Microsoft Excel and VBA/Macros/SQL based technical and non-technical solution implementations

- Should have worked previously on databases e.g. MS Access, Oracle etc. and should be comfortable with query processing language e.g. SQL an IT environment.

- Should have experience in producing and processing MI and reporting using excel based large data sets.

- Experience in working on advanced statistical programming languages like Python and R

- Should have exposure on various automation tools like Xceptor, Power Automate & Advance Python

- Experience in administration and working of Microsoft Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Audit would be a plus.

- Experience in administration and working of visualization tools would be an added plus.

- Should be well versed with prevalent industry specific documentation standards and should have the ability to quickly learn and adopt prescribed Change Framework.

- Experience in executing and supporting User Acceptance Testing/Business Readiness Testing scenarios.

Technical Skills Sets :

- Tools / Languages - Advance Python, Automation tools etc.

- Visualization tools - Qlik, Power BI, Tableau, SAS VA

- General Ledger Systems - Oracle, SAP, Fusion

- Relational Database - Oracle, SQL, Big Data

- Strong knowledge of VBA macros, scripting / coding

- Good to have - Knowledge of PowerShell, Unix / Linux commands

Qualifications and Experience :

- MCA/MBA/BCA/ /B Tech : (12+ years of post-qualification experience) in a leading accounting firms / financial services sector.

- Experience in participating in internal / external Systems audits

Preferred :

- Qualified Automation expert/Developer

- Qualified process improvement professional (all designations)

- Standard Industry Certifications/Qualifications preferred