Vice President Group Other Banking COE

• Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operate

• Manage process and outcomes for OB Outlook and Actuals reporting.
• Build the narrative on OB cost performance at Group level and individual Clusters for presentation to senior management.
• Support Group FP&A Cost team in building a robust Outlook and Plan view, along with central overlays.
• Support the digitisation and simplification of our reporting process.
• Provide central cost overlays in the monthly flash and submit it to Group FP&A central team along with the comments.
• Track the FY outlook by Cluster to understand the group position and changes from previous submission.
• Perform the actual and flash analysis for Group Cost FP&A team.
• Coordinate with Country FP&A teams on understanding material cost movements that impact the group shape.
• Understand the headcount movements in alignment with the overall cost narrative.
• Embed Global standard constant currency views across all our reporting.

• Own and support the process elements of Cost Planning - building the OB budgets through multiple cycles i.e. Target Setting, CP, BR1 and BR2.
• Own end to end OB outcomes within the Corporate Plan process (Inflation, transfers, restatements etc).
• Coordinate with all Countries to understand the key business momentums within the plan.
• Monitor, review and control the country submissions and ensure its in line with set principles.
• Understand movements and manage reconciliations for cost and headcount transfers.
• Update the cost messaging in the cost deck basis discussion with Countries.
• Connect the dots between budget and actual reporting to have consistent messaging.
• Understand the movement across key P&L Lines along with the key business rationale

• Supporting ongoing and dynamic ad-hoc analytics requirements from senior management.
• Completely owning all individual deliverables end to end, working closely with onshore Finance stakeholders.
• Understanding the systems and processes end to end.
• Quick understanding of the ad hoc requests with ensuring quality and TAT of the output.
• Understanding all the P&L lines and systems and be able to design and create various MI which can be shared with Businesses / Functions for taking important decisions.
• Stakeholder communication and coordination.

• MBA, CA, CFA, ACCA with a minimum of 10 years of experience (post qualification) in a financial service industry
• Strategic mindset with a good understanding of FP&A activities
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make decisions
• Experience in cost planning and analytics, variance analysis and understanding of cost drivers
• Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Relationship and stakeholder engagement skills
• Initiative and proactive thinking
• Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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