Director - COO Function/Business Manager - Investment Bank

Key responsibilities include :

- Provide the India Regional Head with support to carry out jurisdictional accountabilities with local stakeholders, institutions and vendors.

- Provide input into controls assessment and oversight in the region, and coordinate required business management/ COO activity to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls for the region.

- Provide the Regional Head with support the regional locations, cost and talent strategy executions.

- Provide support to India head and lead some of the strategy priorities for India Business Development Centers (BDC), people and talent planning and strategy projects.

- Act as COO/Business Manager -Regional Head to provide input into/drive regional workforce planning, acquisition and management activities

- Provide organizational support for all business management activities including but not limited to vendor management/invoicing, resource management, space planning, business continuity management and learning and development

- Drive the resourcing strategy and lead/coordinate the hiring and on-boarding of perm and contractor resources

- Drive the implementation of key governance and control activities across team management, compliance and stakeholder coordination

- Understanding the trends and pipeline of demand from the region and feeding that into the COO management processes and decision-making.

You Offer :

Education / Experience :

- An University degree in a quantitative/business discipline, MBA is preferable

- 12+ years in Banking or Financial Services Consulting

- Demonstrable business management/COO experience in a similar sized role, Risk and Finance shared services experience would be preferable.

- Excellent communicator who can lead motivate and influence large team, leads by example and strategic in thinking with a keen eye for details.

- Demonstrable experience in dealing with senior stakeholders

- Demonstrable experience managing operational risks, site management, vendor management, people and talent management, financials etc for a large organization.

- Strong experience in Project Management / Process re engineering / Six sigma / Lean sigma experience.

- Expert in Microsoft office suits, MS SharePoint, MIS Dashboards development and management experience is a plus.

- Technology savvy, experience in designing MIS databases and tool-sets is a plus.

- Self-starter, able to drive the agenda forward, analytical mind set, able to grasp big picture while not losing sight of details.

- Excellent communication skills, ability to distill information in to meaningful messages driving the actions/agenda forwards.