VP, International Finance

JOB PURPOSE:

The purpose of the job is to analyse International Banking business and financial and identify areas of opportunities for enhanced financial outcome and continuous profitability improvement.

Key responsibilities include:

• Perform profitability analysis for International Banking by creating and maintaining analysis model to discover profit drivers and analyze which customers segments & sectors, products, and locations are profitable.
• Deliver analysis outcome focus on “why” and “how” profitability and costs are impacted.
• Perform ad hoc analysis to address specific business questions and predict possible future financial scenarios.
• Deliver analytics to shape country and business strategy through reliable, factual analysis outcomes rather than intuition.
• Input to country strategy and performance review with key indicators on profitability and costs for target customer segments, products, and locations.
• Support International CFO in implementing a strong business financial review governance framework across the international locations encompassing performance reviews, country strategy and CAGR projections, low return client’s analysis, and optimization initiatives.
• Act as the Primary Point of Contact (representing International CFO) to support various optimization and transformation initiatives undertaken by Finance to improve profitability and returns.

• Shows good drive and initiative with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and within tight deadlines.
• Ability to interact with multiple stakeholders across the bank.
• Effectively coordinate, communicate and build excellent relationships with key stakeholders across Group Finance, country Finance, product and segment Finance etc.

• Review and analyze International financial results by key trends and drivers, covering products / segments / countries / corridors / key clients / key GLs.
• Regularly assess and investigate the integrity of financial information reported by countries from a multiple of perspectives – accounting, tax and regulatory, HO vs country requirements.
• Connect with Product / Segment Finance teams to ensure product / segmental financials related to International locations are explained.
• Connect with country Finance teams to ensure geographical financials are reviewed and explained.
• Review and raise questions to country Finance teams on abnormal trending and large movement.
• Provide process and technical guidance to country Finance teams to review key trends and drivers.
• Ensure country Finance teams provide explanation on key trends and drivers with supporting materials.
• Connect country Finance teams with relevant HO / Group functions on financial results clarification and reporting data issues resolution.
• Highlight any issues with country financial results and coordinate with product and country finance teams to remediate.

• Create analytical reporting for International to present key analysis on profitability and returns, covering products / segments / countries / corridors / key clients / key GLs.
• Establish customer financial analysis model and provide key analysis as a regular monthly deliverable in parallel with the monthly International geographical MI reporting.
• Connect with the International MI & Performance Management team and country Finance teams to product ionize a monthly customer financial analytical MI pack to enable country level business review by international management and / or Group senior stakeholders.

• Participate actively in country business review / International business review by providing strategic inputs on key analysis outcome, including key trends and drivers by products /…