Manager

Roles & responsibilities The Manager – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals. Key Responsibilities: •Business Understanding: •Acquire a thorough understanding of the supported business area. •Support for Leadership Teams: •Prepare management information (MI), and analysis to support the decisions and considerations of the Tax & Legal Leadership team. •Undertake both regular and ad-hoc forecasting and budgeting activities. •Financial Management: •Take responsibility for revenue and contribute to forecast submissions, ensuring coordination of inputs and delivery of insightful analysis. •Compile comprehensive supporting data and analysis to enhance decision-making processes. •Lending and Borrowing Analysis: •Coordinate lending and borrowing analysis, reporting, and insights for the capability. •Report on business drivers. •Coordinate insights from the Finance Business Partner (FBP) team. •Capability-Wide Solutions and Reporting: •Develop solutions and reporting to address capability-wide finance issues, such as hard close, liquidity targets suspense, and Work in Progress (WIP) sign-off.

Roles & responsibilities contd. Process Improvement: •Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis. •Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation. Team and Stakeholder Engagement: •Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST. •Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence. •Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities. •Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity. This role is for you if you have the below •A qualified accountant (CIMA / ACCA / CA / MBA Finance) and over 10 years relevant experience of accounting in an operational or professional services environment •Resilient and able to work with multiple and highly demanding stakeholders •An ability to work at both a strategic and a granular level – choosing when each is appropriate •Experience in financial planning and producing financial reports/analysis for management •High attention to detail, and ability to maximize quality even when meeting deadlines under pressure •Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills