Senior Manager, Cost Control & Management COE
- Bangalore, Karnataka
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Cost Optimisation and Benchmarking: Develop cost optimisation plans with execution focus, provide benchmarking across peers and drive deep dives into significant cost category for potential cost savings
- Demographics Analysis & Headcount management: Perform Headcount and productivity analysis including benchmarking against peers, evaluate as-is landscape (e.g., location footprint, spans & layers) to optimise teams as per the strategy, monitor hiring against the corporate plans and budgets, develop Front to Back view of resources supporting business.
- Budget / Forecast Tracking & Planning: Financial planning and forecasting, drive accurate cost budget setting, establish effective forecasting mechanism, track cost against budget and forecast, understand drivers for overrun and flag thematic issues.
- Senior management presentation - Develop C-suite friendly presentations with crisp and clear messaging, summarising data across multiple sources, with action item
- 3+ years' experience in banking/consulting (with global banks) with cost control/optimisation focus
- Strong understanding of front-office cost drivers, banking products & P&L
- Advanced Excel / financial modelling skills
- Experience with dashboards (Tableau / Power BI) is preferred.
- Prior team management experience is a plus.
- Strategic thinking mindset and ability to logically structure and process data into meaningful and actionable recommendations
- Excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to proactively identify opportunities and drive results
- Excel Modelling
- Dashboarding tools like Tableau and Statistical analysis tools
- Stakeholder management
- Financial/Data analysis
- Prior investment banking / financial analysis / strategy consulting
- MBA / CA
- PGDM, CA
- 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.