Assistant Director - Business Performance Management

Assistant Director - Business Performance Management (BPM)

- Business Performance Management Group (presently the key engagement for the team) is the centre of excellence for modelling services in the firm with an international reputation. The assignments cover a wide range of countries and industry sectors.

Job description:

- The main objective is to achieve business growth by developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key business decision-makers, informing them of our scope of services and communicating how these services benefit their organizations.

Primary responsibilities and accountabilities:

- Manage a team of 20-30 people

- Measure, monitor and improve client service by guiding team members and driving excellence in service delivery

- Focus teams on the key priorities while managing several medium to large size projects

- Ensure that team members deliver quality service as per client's needs and priorities

- Ensure smooth service delivery

- Partner with internal and external clients to improve processes

- Work with project leaders to analyze resource needs and gaps across locations, and devise alternative ways forward.

- Assign people to projects based on their skills, career goals and client's expectations

- Produce assignment budgets and timetables, and manage delivery against them

- Provide team members with accurate and useful guidance in technical areas of high risk and complexity

- Act as a counsellor for team members

- Participate in goal setting, performance appraisal and management of counselees

- Identify L&D requirements of counselees

Competencies/skills:

Highly numerate and analytical individuals preferably with an excellent academic record and a degree in mathematics, economics, sciences, engineering or accounting & finance

- Very Strong MS Access skills with a proven experience of building complex MS Access applications using forms, queries and visual basic code in recent past.

- Advanced Excel and VBA skills.

- Very strong relational database (SQL Server / Oracle) design and build skills.

- Working knowledge of Visual Basic Editor and Visual Studio 2005/2008

- Good understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.

- Proven experience in estimating, planning and managing technology projects.

- Attention to detail and the ability to work under pressure

- Excellent written and spoken English skills. Can document complex technical issues to non-technical staff

- Organised and structured in the completion of tasks

Good to Have:

- Advanced Visual Basic skills

- Good working knowledge of C# .NET/ JAVA

- Any prior experience working with off the shelf BI reporting tools or ETL applications such as Informatica will be looked at very favourably.

- Microsoft certifications such as MCAS/MOS

- Experience in testing methodologies and using testing tools

Job specification:

Education and experience: BE / BCA/Degree in Maths/Eco /Science and MBA with 10+ years post qualification experience in:

- Management Consultancy firms

- MNC or large Indian companies, preferably within a shared service environment

- KPOs