Head - Transition - Financial Process - Analytics Firm - EMEA Region

Role : Head Transition

Location : Gurgaon

CTC - up to 40,00,000 pa

Timing - EMEA Shifts (1 pm to 10 pm)

Leading Analytics Firm looking for a Head Transition.

someone with strong exposure in heading end to end Transitions (preferably from U.K).

Experience in Captive setup / shared services is must

Job Description

- To plan and project-manage all the activities related to migration of Finance processes from various business areas to Global Finance Center in joint collaboration with Operations team, Group businesses across globe and GSC functions in India.

Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas

- Plan and drive the yearly migration plan, for Global Finance Center, in line with annual migration strategy agreed by Senior Leadership team.

- To assume overall responsibility for managing or meeting service expectations of business units, migrating work to the assigned GFC site, during the migration phase.

- In line with the overall objectives of the department, judiciously utilize the available migration resources, and ensure planning for any contingencies, which may affect the migration project

- Proactively ensure availability of pre-migration / migration documentation to GFC functions, matching to the agreed methodology with the assigned business entities.

- Collate, maintain and provide accurate Management Information within agreed timescales on a regular basis.

- Compliance

Customers / Stakeholders :

- Establish and maintain effective relationship with business areas and identify areas of service improvements by implementing regular calls and feedback mechanism

- Influence and escalate key customer issues in an effective way to ensure timely resolution

- Continuous reviews of the customer issues and ensure products and services are tailored on an ongoing basis to meet expectation.

Leadership & Teamwork :

- Effective communication with the team members on organization strategy and goals required for the respective roles and responsibilities

- Motivate, develop, reward and recognize team members in order to meet process deliverables, manage staff expectations, achieve efficiency in operations and maintain work-life balance.

- Create an environment within the team which fosters free sharing of knowledge & ideas

Operational Effectiveness & Control :

- Adherence to Group policies, audit, controls, and compliance requirements including but not limited to Declaration of secrecy, data protection act, health, safety and security, clear desk policy

- To continually assess the operational risks inherent in the processes, taking account of changing operating procedures, staff movements, legal and regulatory requirements, management restructures, and the impact of new technology.

Effectively drive and manage change, plan business contingency and achieve cross-training

Skills/Experience Required :

- Interacting and engaging with senior finance leadership across the globe to have conversation on opportunities (blue sky thinking as well as based on landscape studies). Working with leaders at GFC and change agents across the globe they would require to develop strategy documents to enhance growth at leadership through mandates driven by finance leadership

- Responsible for leading project management of initiatives through the lifecycle of build to operate

- Working with cross functional teams in finance as well as global resourcing such as compliance, HR, technology etc, they will be responsible for all projects being compliant to the non negotiables of migration methodology

- Experience in Financial Control, Reporting & Analysis / Period-end close / Global Consolidation of a organization of similar scale

- Knowledge of multiple Finance functions in a banking environment

- Relevant experience in handling business operations of a Financial Services/Banking MNC or similar industry

- Ability to collaborate with multiple parties, both onshore and offshore in order to achieve key milestones within stipulated time and allocated resources

- Analytical & Decision making ability in a dynamic environment coupled with strong communication (both verbal & written) and presentation skills.

Gaurav Jaiswal