Your next challenge:
- Lead the Bank's cost management framework, ensuring effective financial steering of operating expenses, investment spending, and strategic initiatives across all business units.
- Act as a trusted Finance partner to Senior Management and business leaders by providing insightful analysis, challenging spending decisions, identifying optimization opportunities, and ensuring alignment with the Bank's strategic objectives.
- Support Executive Management, the CFO and senior governance bodies in evaluating strategic projects, transformation initiatives, investments and acquisitions through robust financial analysis and business case assessments.
- Develop a strong cost-conscious culture across the organization while ensuring resources are allocated efficiently to support growth, regulatory requirements, operational resilience and strategic ambitions.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team responsible for cost controlling, planning, analysis and management reporting.
- Own
and continuously enhance the Bank's cost management framework, policies
and governance. - Lead
the budget and forecasting processes for operating expenses and investment
spending. - Monitor
cost performance against budgets and forecasts, identifying risks,
opportunities and corrective actions. - Lead
the evolution of the Bank's cost allocation framework, ensuring transparent,
accurate and business-relevant allocation of costs across customers, products, channels and business units to support
profitability analysis, pricing decisions and strategic resource allocation. - Act
as primary Finance partner for senior executives, department heads and
business leaders regarding cost management matters. - Organize
and lead periodic cost review meetings with ExCo members and senior
management. - Challenge
business assumptions, investment requests and resource allocation
decisions through a constructive and data-driven approach. - Build
strong relationships across Finance, COO, Risk, HR, CEO Office and
Business Lines to ensure alignment on financial priorities. - Support
Management in evaluating strategic projects and transformation
initiatives. - Perform
financial assessments of acquisitions, partnerships and strategic
opportunities. - Evaluate
expected benefits, costs, risks and return on investment of major
initiatives. - Deliver
timely, accurate and insightful management reporting on costs and
investment performance. - Conduct
ad-hoc financial analyses and simulations on business initiatives, cost
drivers and strategic options. - Drive
improvements in planning methodologies, management reporting and
analytical capabilities. - Promote
automation and digitalization of cost management processes. - Contribute
to the evolution of Finance tools, data governance and performance
management frameworks. - Lead,
coach and develop the Cost Management team. - Create
a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and
high performance. - Ensure
appropriate succession planning, talent development and capability
building within the team.