Head of Transformation - Planning and Forecasting CoE

Job Title: Head of Transformation - Planning and Forecasting CoE

Location: Chennai

Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Full-time

On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site

Who We Are

Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.

Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world’s top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one our client which is a leading international banking group, with a presence in 54 of the world’s most dynamic markets. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise, here for good.

The Role

Head of Transformation - Planning and Forecasting CoE

This role offers an exciting opportunity to join a global team, providing top-tier service to existing and prospective clients while expanding the business on a product and global level.

The successful candidate will be responsible for acquiring new clients, managing existing relationships, and contributing to the company's mission of becoming a Top Clearer worldwide in commodity markets.

Main purpose of the role:

• Client has been through an extensive Planning transformation journey over the past three years where a considerable amount of change has been undertaken to the Operating Model and Processes that support the planning framework.
• The purpose of which is to ensure the planning process acts as enabler for clients to drive towards strategic objectives externally communicated to the market. Increased focus on Business Entity performance, closer alignment between Balance Sheet and P&L / Metric outcomes, increased workforce insights, improvements in quality and completeness of forecast data, flexibility to adapt to changing market and organisational conditions and earlier availability of plan information are all outcomes enabled through the planning transformation journey to date.
• At the same time a fundamental transition of the underlying Technology landscape that supports Planning has been delivered, with a full migration away from the historical Oracle applications to a new integrated SAP / SAC cloud-based landscape, including all the required data integration patterns.

Requirements/ Qualifications:

• 15+ years of relevant experience working in Banking and Financial Services, with background in Finance.
• Good experience working in FP&A, Performance Management and Planning / Forecasting environments.
• Strong strategic mindset with background leading Transformation Programs delivering both Technology as well as Process and Operating Model change.

This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organisations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.

Client promotes collaboration and aims to provide a supportive and inclusive environment where all individuals can maximize their full potential.

As we are continuously hiring for all our clients in the region, we will retain your CV in our database for any other positions that may fit your profile. Therefore, please let us know if you are not agreeable to that.