Associate - Office of Senior Country Business Manager/COO India

The Senior Country Business Manager (SCBM)/ COO Office is responsible for ensuring the effective governance, control, risk management, and strategic management of the country operations (India). 

Job Summary:

As an Associate in the Senior Country Business Manager (SCBM)/ COO Office, you will require to have an understanding of financial and operational governance, risk management, and strategic planning to support the CEO/SCO and other senior leaders in achieving the organization's objectives.

Job Responsibilities: 

• Execute new business strategies, strategic initiatives, or platforms, aligning business and support functions (Finance, Tech, Ops, Legal, Compliance).
• Optimize 'bottom line' business performance by driving key initiatives &  KPI’s 
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate business risks that could impair our ability to do business, such as legal, tax, regulatory, capacity issues etc.
• Analyze financial performance, including expenses; identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation.
• Partner with the Business, Operations, and Technology in defining future workflows and implementing related technology and projects to meet evolving market requirements.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders (CAO functions) location driven strategy
• Maintain the location's operational strategies and ensure the smooth operation and appropriate coordination of all businesses and infrastructure functions.
• Help communicate business strategy, performance and priorities to stakeholders
• Prepare documents, materials for senior management meetings.
• Improve the client experience with local LOBs (e.g., improve onboarding, ensure cross-business client service issues are addressed and resolved in a timely manner).
• Ensure a strong understanding among local LOBs of revenue and expense goals, actual performance, client planning/prioritization, control environment, and cross-LOB gaps and opportunities.

Required Qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Postgraduate (preferred)/Graduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related area.
• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management and prioritization skills.
• Ability to present well to senior and business heads.
• Strong internal relationship-building skills across a broad range of functions.
• Self-motivated, tenacious, and able to work independently.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to define and deliver a strategic agenda across multiple groups.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely.
• Attention to detail with a logical thought process.
• Ask questions, maintain a pro-active and problem-solving mindset with ability to identify, clearly present and implement well defined solutions
• Strong organizational and time management skills; extremely versatile; ability to prioritize requests; comfortable managing the demands of multiple deliverables running at the same time
• Enthusiastic, self-motivated and effective under pressure. Energetic and dynamic in style.

Preferred Qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• 5-6 Years of experience with minimum 2-3 years’ experience in Business Management or COO Organization (preferred).