Executive Director- Leading Finance, Risk

Role- Executive Director- Leading Finance, Risk & Regulatory Function.

Location- Bengaluru

Experience - Must have a combination of SME skills in Financial Risk and Finance, Transformation and Consulting.

Function- Capability Head- Finance, Risk and Regulatory Functions

Joining Capco means joining an organisation that is committed to an inclusive working environment where you are encouraged to #BeYourselfAtWork. We celebrate individuality and recognize that diversity and inclusion, in all forms, is critical to success. It is important to us that we recruit and develop as diverse a range of talent as we can. We believe that everyone brings something different to the table – so we would love to know what makes you different.

About Capco

Capco is a global technology and business consultancy, focused on the financial services sector. We are passionate about helping our clients succeed in an ever-changing industry.

We are:

• Experts in capital markets, banking and payments, insurance and wealth and asset management
• Deep knowledge in financial services offering, including e.g. Finance, Risk and Compliance, Financial Crime, Resilience etc.
• Committed to growing our business and hiring the best talent to help us get there
• Focus on maintaining our nimble, agile and entrepreneurial culture

Role Description 

We are looking to recruit Finance and Treasury Transformation candidates with deep knowledge of the domain into our growing Financial Crime, Risk, Regulation and Finance (FRRF) capability. You will have strong change management experience and a background in financial services.

You will be involved in advising clients and delivering transformation across the Finance and Treasury functions of our clients, in support of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer.  The type of work you will get involved in includes Finance and Treasury implementation of strategic changes (e.g. ledger transformation and process excellence for controls, balance sheet and capital optimisation, analytics and reporting), regulatory changes (e.g. Basel, IFRS, PRA, EBA) and delivery of reporting. (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP and RRP). You will spend time with clients dealing with problems as they arise and gaining valuable experience and exposure to how the projects and client organisations work across the financial services industry.

The type of projects we cover are:

• Finance and Treasury strategy and operating models, including Balance Sheet Management and Capital optimization strategies
• Implementation of regulatory changes e.g. Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, PRA, EBA
• Finance and shared services / outsourcing.
• Finance organisation design.
• Financial regulatory reporting and change
• Finance function process improvement including digital process modelling, automation and AI.
• Cost reduction exercises, with effective benefit realisation plan.
• Benchmarking the finance function.
• Performance management including budgeting and forecasting.
• Finance IT strategy - including embedding applicable digital technologies (i.e accounting engine, subledger, cloud adoption)

In your role as a Finance and Treasury Transformation Consultant, you will have responsibility for:

• Supporting our clients to achieve compliance with regulatory obligations, including dealing with remediation and response to regulatory reviews.
• Designing solutions, delivering on client assignments and owning delivery of projects.
• Ensuring management information is provided to, and easily understood by, programme leads, senior management and client committees.
• Defining and managing monitoring processes.
• Building assurance and control capabilities in line with regulatory expectations and risk appetite.
• Liaising with internal control and risk functions across three lines of defence.
• Managing stakeholder expectations spanning global business areas with conflicting priorities.
• Ensuring timely escalation and control of risks, issues, dependencies and timelines.
• Developing long-term trusted advisor relationships with external clients and industry contacts.
• Understanding business models and helping translate them into business requirements and test scenarios for handover to IT partners.
• Working collaboratively with relevant Capco teams in identifying opportunities for and securing new business.
• Supporting the sharing of knowledge and experience with the team to help develop your colleagues and the capability of the firm.

Skills and Expertise

Finance / Accounting / Treasury

• Demonstrate understanding and experience of advising on and implementing regulations such as Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, SOX, GDPR, PRA, EBA) and delivery of reporting (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP and RRP).
• Accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) (desirable)
• Demonstrate strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and processes, for example: profit & loss, balance sheet, capital allocation, cost allocation.
• Good understanding of the role of the Finance and Treasury function within financial services organisations, including all aspects of the finance operating model (people, data, technology).
• Experience of delivering transformation projects within finance functions, either as a consultant or as part of an in-house change-delivery team. This could be finance technology projects (e.g., ERP, Accounting Engines/Subledger/Finance Reporting implementations), right-shoring or other operating model transformations or finance process improvements.
• Understanding the impact of the relationship between finance and other functions such as risk, tax and compliance.
• Experience of working with the C-Suite - CFO, CRO, CDO community (desirable)

PM / BA skills

• Experience in managing change projects, including finance/ regulatory transformation, resource management, budgeting, communications and governance.
• Understanding of the project lifecycle from requirements through to implementation
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, with an ability to work with stakeholders across all business functions to define requirements.
• Ability to Work with technology partners to translate these requirements into functional and technical design.
• Experienced at running workshops to drive discussions, gather requirements and mitigate risks with users and senior stakeholders,
• Appreciation of business and technical architecture.
• Knowledge of formal project management methods e.g., Agile, PMI, Prince 2 (desirable)

Other Expectations

• To balance client delivery with supporting development of new client opportunities or market propositions and sales activities with the capability and client accounts.

For senior level candidates

• Mentor and coach other members of the team.
• Solution development, showing a clear ability as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to enhance existing propositions, and develop new ones.
• People management, building a team of consultants with the right mix of grades, skills and experience to support client opportunities and projected growth.
• Develop, drive and convert a pipeline of opportunities and lead on RFP responses.
• Fulfil a key role in account and proposition development within Market Domains and Key Client Accounts, assisting senior management to increase revenue.
• Formulate propositions and solutions that meet client requirements in addition to managing and directing pursuit activity.
• Strong bid management abilities, with a proven ability to mentor and train Consultants.
• Drive thought leadership and client campaigns
• Build and maintain strong client relationships within the sector, leveraging proven industry content and delivery capability.

Our work culture is focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees. This means that we will work with you to track your development so you know how you are doing and where you can improve. At this early stage in your career, you will have access to inspirational leaders and high-quality training, to give you every opportunity to become a recognised expert.

Successful candidates can build relationships quickly with colleagues and clients. Flexibility is also key, you will need to handle changing priorities and workloads and as you grow, you would also need to have the capacity to take on greater responsibilities such as development of service offerings and client campaigns as you develop within the firm. You should be intellectually curious and interested in developing your professional and technical skills, to understand clients' issues and to help them to prosper.

WHY JOIN CAPCO?

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We offer:

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
• Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause and bereavement