DescriptionThe current opening is within the Cards & Connected Commerce Finance team in Bangalore which forms part of the Consumer & Community Bank Finance within Global Finance & Business Management India.
About the Team
The Consumer & Community Banking Cards & Connected Commerce Finance P&A group supports the Cards & Connected Commerce Chief Financial Officers (CFO) and the Consumer and Community Bank (CCB) Planning & Analysis organization(P&A) Partner and Brand CFO Teams. The group partners with senior Finance leaders and their teams across the Cards & Connected Commerce businesses and serves as an analytical and reporting resource to help leaders understand and manage all financial aspects of the business.
The Cards & Connected Commerce Finance team provides realtime insights to Cards & Connected Commerce leadership on Business Performance Annual operating plans Standard financial reporting Bespoke analysis Investment decisioning Marketing analytics Card P&A Card Forecasting Modelling and Financial Analytics. The team is structured with dedicated CFOs or CFO support teams with each card product having its own on dedicated P&L and subsequent Balance sheet impacts. Team is adept translating business scenarios to actionable financial insights and is called upon to help on real time business decisioning on a variety of topics.
Roles & Responsibilities
Financial Analysis team is responsible for partnering across the firm to provide financial and strategic analysis oversight and coordination of budgeting and forecasting. Our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams are responsible for a wide range of activities including financial control forecasting and budgeting analysis of financial/business metrics delivery of weekly/monthly/quarterly management reporting development of new reporting capabilities (e.g. dashboards) and advising the line of business Chief Financial Officeron how to increase profitability and efficiencies.
- Managing annual/continual financial planning activities for product areas providing business rational and decisions for all monthend financial performance and forecasting conducting reviews and analysis on product financial performance consumption/demand planning budgeting billing trends and exception reports
- Develop recommendations effecting business procedures and operations and maintain financial and reporting systems.
- Efficiency reporting analytics and strategy including but not limited to location strategy span of control reporting and analytics
- Creating financial business cases supporting business initiatives
- Reporting on and monitoring key metrics driving data quality initiatives across the product area and helping define future needs of the product area
- Developing and tracking performance metrics creating presentations and generally providing financial analysis on a variety of topics to senior management
- Helping design new reports and dashboards to efficiently deliver the financial results to senior management
- Enhancing controls and streamlining processes introducing automation where possible
- Prepare insightful high quality Senior Management presentations
- Prepare analytical insights by partner reports
- Prepare Customer Penetration Metrics
- Support ad hoc requests from the Business and Senior Management
- Weekly/Monthly/Quarterly reports as required
- Knowledge of Essbase MicrosoftAccess Visual Basic Analysis Systems Applications & Products in Data Processing(SAP) etc. is added advantage
- Ensure that reports are insightful and contain commentary on key movements and watch items
Skills / Competencies Needed/Education Qualifications:
- Chartered Accountant/ CFA/ MBA (Finance) (or similar educational background) with 12 years of postqualification experience
- Background in Data Science a strong plus. Experience in SQL/SAS/Python/Tableau a plus
- Strong financial analytical skills Fusion of Finance and Data Capabilities
- Strong Team Management Skills With experience in managing Associate level population
- Experience in banking industry preferred
- Excellent communication and partnering skills
- Ability to multitask and work autonomously within team environment
- Ability to research issues/problems and provide a solutionbased approach
- Adaptable to change and ambiguity in the work environment
- Expert knowledge of Excel (i.e. use of pivot tables macros arrays etc) Microsoft Access
- Knowledge of Essbase
- Inquisitive enthusiastic and diligent and capable of challenging status quo
- Highly motivated and able to thrive and think clearly under pressure and tight deadlines
- Highly motivated selfstarter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
- Shift timings: 2.00 pm till 11.00 pm
Required Experience:
Chief