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Client service delivery/execution

• Manage multiple projects, engagement economics and receivables, project resources, and team utilization
• Lead the delivery/execution of high-quality deliverables and manage service quality, brand, and client expectations

Knowledge Management

• Contribute to brand development by writing articles, developing thought leadership and point-of-views
• Contribute to knowledge development and management

Business development:

• Manage clients & accounts and build professional relationships
• Meet business development targets by identifying new opportunities with existing and new clients
• Demonstrate significant industry/solution expertise

People Management    

• Be a strong team player
• Build a strong team and be a strong role model, mentor, and coach
• Assist in resolving people issues
• Support people development through guidance and feedback
• Take the lead in recruiting activities
• Ensure compliance with the firm’s standards, processes, and policies
• Contribute to the firm’s initiatives in enhancing market leadership & growth, quality, people agenda, and operational excellence

Skills

• In-depth understanding of the economic and business environment
• Expertise in two or more of the areas listed – Procurement / Integrated Planning / Network Design / Supply Chain / Sales and Marketing / Strategy /  / Logistics
• Professional network and networking skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good leadership qualities
• Client relationship management and account management skills. Experience in handling mid to large-size accounts
• Program management, multi-tasking, and time management skills
• Good experience in business development
• Excellent people management skills
• Sharp focus on quality delivery
• Ability to develop/customize solutions relevant to client
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint

Other

• Willingness to travel
• Flexible to adapt to a demanding lifestyle
• Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations
• High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment
• Maturity and ability to handle pressure       

Academic Qualifications   

• B.E. / B.Tech. or CA + MBA (preferably from a premier institute) with a good academic background       

Experience    

• 3 to 8 years of the relevant post MBA experience
• Consulting  background (preferably) or Industry background  (Business excellence / functional role) with significant expertise in  at least three of the areas listed – Business transformation,  Business Process Re-engineering, Market assessment,  Post-merger integration, Strategy and Business Planning, Sales and Marketing improvement/transformation, Strategic Cost Reduction, Supply Chain Management/transformation    

Professional Background

• 4 – 12 years of relevant post MBA experience – Finance Transformation (FT) Advisory and Implementation / relevant consulting background or Industry (Consumer Goods, Pharma, Retail, Manufacturing) background (Business excellence / functional role/ Solution / Sales)
• Hands on experience in leading FT strategy and Operating model initiatives, related Transformation programs for large organizations
• Process transformation experience in process areas like Lead to Order (L2O), Order to Cash (O2C), Record to report (R2R), Procure to Pay (P2P), Financial statement close process etc.
• Experience in leading Process transformation, Business diagnostics, business case development, performance management and budgeting, performance improvement of internal operations, process KPIs, policy, technology and digital initiatives (E.g. Account Reconciliation tools, Month End close checklist tools, AP workflow, Vendor portal, collections management system, treasury solutions, good knowledge of ERP/SAP solutions)
• Should have worked in any one or more of following sub-sectors – Global capability centres or SSCs (strategy / transformation / process excellence / Global Process Ownership teams), BPO service providers (Process Transformation experience), Consulting organizations
• Experience in Finance Transformation, Future of Finance, Digital Finance, FP&A (Financial Planning and Analysis), Management reporting, FSCP – Financial statement close process, AP transformation leading to improvement in key business metrics e.g. reduction in days to close, DPO and DSO optimization, working capital, cost of finance function etc.
• Knowledge of current finance operations, related technology landscape, trends and solutions
• Industry experience of managing functions under controllership, FP&A, Revenue mgmt., transactional finance, etc. especially within the professional services domain
• Exposure to data management and analytics

Job Role

Across FT, TOM (Target Operating Model) design, implementation and transition projects, the Manager will be involved in providing objective advise, expertise, guidance and specialist skills with the aim of achieving the program objectives. The Manager will mainly work with the team to:

• Lead client engagements and oversee work-streams
• Develop client specific solutions to problem statements
• Modularize work components and develop implementation plans
• Demonstrate and Implement industry leading solutions for client engagements
• Identify gaps and areas of improvement
• Design the target operating model (TOM) for future state processes
• Manage activities such as engagement economics and receivables, project resources and team utilization
• Lead the delivery / execution of high-quality deliverables and manage service quality, brand and client expectations
• Participate in business development, brand, people and knowledge related initiatives
• Ensure compliance to the firm’s standards, processes and policies
• Manage senior external/internal stakeholders independently
• Contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training professionals
• Build a high performance team while mentoring and coaching team members
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills of staff

Preferred Skills

• Expertise in two or more of the areas listed – Finance Transformation strategy, design and transformation, Business diagnostics, business case development, performance management, performance improvement of internal operations, service management
• Exposure to implementation of RPA/OCR/BI/Consolidation tools/Digital Finance (R2R) for Finance organizations
• Experience with process mapping tools (Microsoft Visio, IBM Blueworks, Celonis etc.)
• Hands on experience with different data visualization tools and BI solutions
• Problem-solving capabilities to develop / customize solutions relevant to client needs

Core skills

• Sharp focus on quality delivery
• In-depth understanding of the economic and business environment
• Professional network and networking skills
• Excellent oratory and articulation skills
• Showcasing strong “Bias for action”, “coachability” and “mentoring” traits
• Client relationship management and account management skills
• Program management, multi-tasking and time management skills
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point

Other

• Willingness to travel
• Able to thrive in relatively unstructured situations
• High initiative and drive, positive attitude and high commitment

Academic Background

• B.E. / B.Tech. or CA + MBA (preferably from a premier institute with a good academic background)

• The candidate will be responsible for delivering projects in the area of Banking, NBFC, MFI’s, Retail Banking, and Wealth management.
• S/he may be responsible for actual implementation in accordance with client requirements or project management for implementation that is carried out by the client or a third party
• S/he may be responsible for assisting clients with business and strategic plan development, financial modeling, operating model definition and design, process efficiency, process manuals definition, and implementation efforts of setting up new entities in India and abroad.
• S/he may be responsible for both pre-sales as well as project delivery areas.
• Manage project delivery and contribute to the project / pre-sales collaterals
•  Deliver in-depth presentations about solutions/implementation to prospects and partners
•  Share information & best practices with other consultants and company colleagues

Essentials:

• Project delivery and Business strategy experience
• Domain / Industry Functional and Operational skills – Retail / Corporate Banking, NBFC, MFI, Rural Banking
• Excellent oral and written communication, and presentation skills to enable seamless interaction across all levels of client functionaries
• Leadership skills
• Client relationship-building skills
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• High team orientation
• Project management/time management, and aptitude for planning and organization
• Flexibility to adapt to a demanding lifestyle handles pressure and manages multiple client/vendor relationships simultaneously
• Willingness to travel

Academic Qualifications:

MBA / MS or equivalent (preferably from a premier institute) with a good academic background or Bachelor’s Degree with strong domain experience

Experience:  

• 8+years of relevant experience
• Actual work experience in consulting and advising clients in India or abroad AND / OR experience in Banking / NBFC firms being a part of strategic initiatives for driving operational efficiencies / formulating strategic plans (strategy / operating plans) / defining detailed requirements etc.
• Has successfully been part of large deals and implemented business-critical projects of large scope, including a large number of workgroup members and large budget

Key Accountabilities

• The primary role is to partner and lead the transformation activities for the function right from ideation to securing budget, resources, planning with ops, getting agreement with tech and other related teams
• Support the business administration activities of the team which may include organizational design and communications.
• Lead business to manage the resource and headcount models, and financial management where appropriate
• Drive an effective and robust governance management strategy, including aggregation of strategic MI used for OLT reporting
• Development and implementation of department-wide policies and procedures, and responsibility for directing day-to-day operations
• Drive value chain exercises across process, identify synergies, and drive transformation agenda globally

Person Specification

• Strong use of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and planning tools (Microsoft Project)
• Strong time management skills: Ability to multi-task and prioritize workload in a high pressured environment.
• Strong Communication skills: Confident with the ability to communicate and negotiate across all levels, functions, and roles
• Highly numerate with analytical problem-solving ability
• Result-driven, multi-tasking abilities
• Ability to perform in high pressure and stringent timelines

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Prior experience of working in the capacity of a project manager or as a Business Manager with the underlying rule that the role was strongly connected to ops and the candidate has strong capital markets experience
• Ability to work in a challenging but rewarding environment; dynamic, high pressured, pragmatic, demanding
• Goal orientated team player: Demonstrates initiative and flexibility/willingness to undertake a wide variety of challenging tasks.
• Good financial management and ops experience in capital markets like Confirmations, Settlements, MO is a must (excluding reconciliations)

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Business Degree (or equivalent)
• Prior industry experience and up-to-date knowledge of relevant trends

Key Accountabilities

• Affirmation of Derivative trades with internal and external counterparties
• Production of ISDA paper trade confirmations for all vanilla and some complex Derivative trades.
• Incoming validation and matching of paper and electronic trade confirmations, including DSMatch.
• Develop and manage operational relationships with our clients through proactive affirmation and confirmation of Derivative trades.
• Oversight of recruitment, training and ongoing development of staff.
• Development and implementation of department wide policies and procedures, and responsibility for directing day-to-day operations
• Management oversight of all KRI’s and KPI’s
• Ensure all applicable governance, compliance, risk policies and procedures are adhered to and a mechanism exists to promote escalation by staff where appropriate.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Derivative Confirmations process
• Overall understanding of trade life cycle and investment banking
• Relevant years of management experience with proven track record at managing diverse teams.
• A high level of focus on strategic vision
• Strong understanding of the end-to-end processes in the Confirmations and/or Settlements area
• Experience gained in High Volume House and client service environment.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Strong communication and negotiation skills in order to manage the relationship with Premier clients, fluent in English.
• Highly numerate with analytical problem solving ability
• Result driven.
• Commitment and loyalty to the brand.

Data Science expert for a product/tool being developed for supply chain planning, sales, procurement, and manufacturing domains

Role objectives

• Data Science expert will work on various analytics projects with different clients.
• Understand the business/functional output needed
• Model the business scenarios to solve client problems
• Work on productizing learnings from each project
• Contribute to overall solution development

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Experience in various statistical forecasting algorithms (ARIMA, UCM, Croston, Prophet, etc.)
• Expertise level knowledge with AL/ML (Random forest, xgboost, Deep learning, Neural networks, etc.)
• Hands-on knowledge on Python, SQL, R, etc.
• Big data handling using tools like Spark, Hadoop, etc.
• Visualization using Tableau, QlikView, Poser BI, etc.
• Experience with Supply chain analytics is desirable

Skillsets/ Personal Attributes:

• Positive attitude. Go-getter mindset
• Highly determined and hands-on approach towards his/her work
• Eager to learn new skills
• Strong analytical thinking
• Problem Solving aptitude
• Functional exposure to chosen domains will be a plus