AVP - Business Management - Investment Bank

AVP - Business Management at an investment bank

Key responsibilities include:

- UHNW & Distribution business services: supporting MI production, data cleansing, optimization of processes and team structures; and producing high quality client-ready visual outputs / PPT materials (e.g., pitchbooks, UHNW SharePoints, strategy decks etc.)

- COO Office management: across Communications (internal newsletters, Townhalls etc.), People Engagement activities (e.g., people pillars, snapshot analysis etc.), Governance (e.g. leadership meetings, reporting, scorecards, offsites etc.) and planning

- Cost & Performance related activities: direct cost, forecasting, accruals, invoicing, and Purchase Orders

The role holder will:

- Ensure transparency, monitoring (e.g. monthly dashboard) and reporting progress against plans, quality & costs

- Prepare and follow up on action items from global and regional program calls.

- Participate in design of reporting decks and ongoing production ownership for quantitative MI.

- Provide regular status updates to senior management incl. GPB ExCo and GPB&W COO LTM

- Resource Management - including headcount tracking, reporting, Org design, and analysis.

- Process and Team Improvement & Efficiency

- Production of useful MI and analysis to enable insightful decision making can be made.

- Ensure quality of information across all reporting systems and consistency in reporting

- Undertake Day to Day support activities in helping to run the operation and Ad hoc requests and analysis as required/requested

Qualifications - External:

What you will need to succeed in the role:

- Educated to graduate level (or equivalent level of experience) (M)

- Strong Excel (particularly large data sets / modelling) and high-quality visual report production (M)

- Prior Business Management & Experience of producing high quality reporting to tight deadlines (E)

- Prior Team Management experience or strong inclination towards people & team management (E)

- Stakeholder Management ability to engage and build effective relationships with team and stakeholders (E)

- Strong communicator - able to express ideas via various communication channels (E)

- Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills and ability to communicate with diverse audiences (E)

- Ability to investigate items in detail / Meticulous attention to detail (E)

- Ability to work with info from various systems and make sense of data /express clearly with assumptions used (E)

- Ability to deliver on time and at a consistent professional level (E)

- Recognized strong organizational skills. (E)

- Experience within Financial services (E)

- Ability to work alone, independently drive initiatives or as part of a team, as required (E)

- Analytical analysis, data mining and scenario modelling experience (E)

- Effective presentation, interpersonal, negotiation, communication, and analytical skills. (E)

- Cost controller / Planning & Finance / third party / Org design experience (E)

- Ability to step back and look to improve process and efficiency (D)

- Index: Mandatory (M) / Essential (E) / Desirable (D)

What additional skills will be good to have?

- GPB wide role - The Role Holder will communicate regularly with various offices globally and all levels of seniority including all the product specialist teams.

- The jobholder will be required to support the management of programmes/projects and governance forums, representing his/her team as appropriate.

- Understanding of financial reporting aspects and moderate level knowledge of all investment, banking, insurance and credit products offered by GPB. Knowledge of operational, trading and overall business knowledge would be beneficial.

- Highly professional approach, competent with the ability to work independently and drive forward elements of key GPB product and service related projects.