Assistant Manager Corporate Planning

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Develop profitability models for products, segments, channels, and branches.
• Create dashboards, reports, and presentations using BI tools to provide insights into business performance.
• Explain product and function performance to senior management.
• Analyze and comment on all business units, treasury, and support functions to identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Support productivity and cost-saving initiatives.
• Communicate financial and operational performance trends, both historical and forecasted, using appropriate metrics.
• Evaluate past budgets and expenditures to develop future budgets.
• Recommend improvements to senior management for cost reduction, revenue generation, and streamlined operations.
• Collaborate with Functional Heads to build annual budgets and forecasts.
• Present monthly/quarterly financial analysis and identify causes of unexpected variances.

Behavioural:

• Analytical and strategic orientation
• Positive and self-driven
• Results-oriented with a focus on execution
• Ability to work synergistically with cross-functional teams

Functional:

• Knowledge of the mortgage business
• Strong analytical skills, including the use of BI and reporting tools
• Excellent quantitative abilities
• Outstanding communication skills with the ability to build relationships
• High level of commercial acumen

Competencies:

• Negotiation skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Effective communication skills
• Problem-solving skills
• Team management
• Advanced computer software skills, including writing macros in Excel and other accounting packages
• Strong knowledge of accounting, IND-AS, and regulatory frameworks