About this role
Roles & responsibilities
The Assistant Manager – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop an understanding of the business area supported, proactively learning the services it provides, client issues it seeks to address, sectors it operates in and key clients / client contracts. • Support local stakeholders in understanding business performance, KPIs and actions that can be taken to drive improved performance. • Produce analysis and other reporting to support local stakeholder decision making, per the organisation design, advocating the use of centralised MI and other self-service tools as appropriate. • Provide the business with both support and challenge with respect to commercial matters, such as fee structure and pricing for client projects. • Be the subject matter expert for engagement-related performance questions– including adhoc training and education of engagement teams as needed. • Execute processes and review the output of these to ensure management and financial accounts accurately reflect the financial position of the business: • Revenue recognition in line with accounting standards; • Costs recognised accurately, on a timely basis and incurred in line with organisational policy. • Investigating and escalating as required anomalies, system or process issues. • Champion adherence to finance processes and policies, challenging deviation from these as appropriate and highlighting opportunities for improvements. • Deputise for the Finance Business Partner as needed. • Play an active role in the broader finance community, including knowledge sharing, participation in meetings and ad hoc projects. • Be an advocate for change programmes delivered by Finance / KPMG Business Services (KBS), including automation tools, self-service, standardisation, and any other changes in ways of working.
Roles & responsibilities contd.
Process Improvement:
• Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis. • Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation.
Team and Stakeholder Engagement:
• Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST. • Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence. • Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities. • Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity.
Roles & responsibilities
The Assistant Manager – BOI Finance and Accounting Team is integral to applying analytical skills to drive financial strategy, enhance decision-making processes, and optimize operations. This role involves interpreting complex financial data to provide actionable insights and recommendations, ensuring alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
Key Responsibilities
• Develop an understanding of the business area supported, proactively learning the services it provides, client issues it seeks to address, sectors it operates in and key clients / client contracts. • Support local stakeholders in understanding business performance, KPIs and actions that can be taken to drive improved performance. • Produce analysis and other reporting to support local stakeholder decision making, per the organisation design, advocating the use of centralised MI and other self-service tools as appropriate. • Provide the business with both support and challenge with respect to commercial matters, such as fee structure and pricing for client projects. • Be the subject matter expert for engagement-related performance questions– including adhoc training and education of engagement teams as needed. • Execute processes and review the output of these to ensure management and financial accounts accurately reflect the financial position of the business: • Revenue recognition in line with accounting standards; • Costs recognised accurately, on a timely basis and incurred in line with organisational policy. • Investigating and escalating as required anomalies, system or process issues. • Champion adherence to finance processes and policies, challenging deviation from these as appropriate and highlighting opportunities for improvements. • Deputise for the Finance Business Partner as needed. • Play an active role in the broader finance community, including knowledge sharing, participation in meetings and ad hoc projects. • Be an advocate for change programmes delivered by Finance / KPMG Business Services (KBS), including automation tools, self-service, standardisation, and any other changes in ways of working.
Roles & responsibilities contd.
Process Improvement:
• Automation and Efficiency: Lead efforts to automate reporting processes and incorporate generative AI tools to enhance efficiency, standardization, and innovation in financial analysis. • Skill Development in Analytics Platforms: Enhance proficiency in emerging data analytics platforms, adapting reports to improve efficiency and insight generation.
Team and Stakeholder Engagement:
• Stakeholder Management: Engage effectively with stakeholders, delivering analytical insights that align financial objectives with business strategies, including real-time support to stakeholders starting at 2 PM IST. • Team Leadership: Manage the finance team by setting clear goals, conducting performance appraisals, and fostering a culture focused on continuous learning and analytical excellence. • Training and Best Practices: Lead training sessions to develop analytical skills within the team, sharing best practices, including the use of generative AI, to enhance overall capabilities. • Investment Evaluation: Analyze open accounts receivable, bad debts, and cash flow metrics to provide leadership with insights that support the firm’s liquidity.