Axis Bank - AVP - Financial Analyst

Overview of Financial Analytics:

- We are one of the leading Private Sector Banks in India with an intent to progressively increase span and scope of work addressed by the analytics teams. Role mandate is to create best in class financial analytics set-up which leverages knowledge of financials, business, system & data engineering domains.

Key roles & responsibilities:

Deliverables fall under 3 broad categories:

- P&L related Insights

- P&L views - Generate P&L views, actionable insights & strategies to improve profitability of the business

- Deep Dives - Conduct driver analysis of revenue and cost items

- Analytical Products - Create analytical products to generate richer & quicker P&L insights

Financial Planning & Analysis:

Budgets - Create bottom-up budgets/operating plans based on underlying on business drivers

Variance Analysis - Tracking and ascertaining reasons of variance from plan

Scenario Analysis - Create, manage & leverage analytical framework to identify optimal portfolio mix across different portfolio scenarios

Competitor Intelligence & Stakeholder Asks:

Stakeholder Management - Liase with business heads & product managers and enable them in meeting their P&L goals

- Competitor Intelligence - Glean out insights on competitors based on industry data (publicly available & subscription based)

What's in it for you?

- Intellectually Stimulating Work - Role provides an opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary environment with lot of lateral learning opportunities

- Autonomy to Innovate - Analysts are both encouraged and expected to adopt 1st principle thinking, question existing practices, imagine possibilities and innovate on the existing suite of outputs. Team has produced avant garde analytical products that have been well received by higher leadership

- Hone your big picture thinking - Work closely with business leaders, see them in action and hone your big picture thinking skills

- Understand business & P&L like never before - Rub shoulders with product managers, pick their brains to enhance your P&L understanding.

Role also provides:

- An opportunity to understand linkage between system, business & financials

Skills & Experience:

- 5 - 8 years of experience in the analytics, preferably in banking/payments space

- Strong data handling, interpretive and problem solving skills with the ability to process large volume of transaction level data and efficiently derive actionable results.

- Has previous Hands-on coding experience (SAS/SQL) is Must

- Good project management skills while working with both internal and external partners

Akshay Mada