Assistant Vice President – Investment Banking Business Manager

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

1203 Barclays Global Serv. Cent is looking for an Assistant Vice President to manage business strategies and engage with senior executives in Gurugram. This role aims to provide support in navigating challenges, decision-making, and achieving strategic goals.

The ideal candidate should possess experience in business management, a solid understanding of investment banking, and strong analytical skills. The position promotes collaboration and aims to optimize processes for enhanced effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Experience in business management, strategy or COO functions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of investment banking regulations.
• Strong analytical skills with dashboard creation experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership to implement business strategies.
• Manage initiatives and optimize business processes.
• Develop performance reporting for key metrics.

Skills

Business management

Investment banking products knowledge

Analytical skills

Dashboard creation with Tableau

Interpersonal skills

MS Office applications

Communication skills

Tools

CRM Salesforce

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Job Description

Assistant Vice President – Investment Banking Business Manager. This role provides the opportunity to make a strong immediate contribution for proactive, tenacious and eager to learn about multiple products and clients in a high intensity results-oriented team environment.

Purpose of the Role

To enable the success of senior executives by helping executives navigate complex challenges, make informed decisions, and achieve their goals.

Accountabilities

• Collaborate with business and senior leadership to develop and implement business strategies that align with organizational goals and regulatory requirements.
• Liaise between different business units and functions to foster communication and collaboration.
• Manage and coordinate strategic initiatives, projects, and change management efforts to optimize business processes and strengthen the control environment.
• Improve operational efficiency, identify areas for improvement, streamline processes and implement best practices.
• Develop performance reporting for key metrics that reinforce strategic objectives and support external commitments.
• Participate in financial analysis and budget management, including financial planning, forecasting, and monitoring performance against targets.
• Support business heads in partnership with HR on hiring, workforce planning, and joiner/mover/leaver actions.

Expectations

• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives, coach employees, appraise performance, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours: Listen, Energise, Align, Develop.
• Consult on complex issues, provide advice to People Leaders, mitigate risk, develop new policies/procedures, and strengthen controls.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information clearly and influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Qualifications

• Support origination of strategy with focus on management, regulatory impact and business strategy.
• Prepare and coordinate materials to support senior leadership meetings.
• Develop dashboards and MIS reports analysing volume, revenue, risk, productivity, client interactions and sectors.
• Produce business MI, strategy presentations and trend analysis.
• Support sales teams with tools such as CRM Salesforce, Tableau, Business Objects.
• Create client briefs and marketing material for client meetings.
• Produce periodic headcount and ad‑hoc productivity analysis.
• Maintain database of historic competitive analysis for revenue, client wallet, costs, headcount, productivity and returns.
• Provide competitor analysis landscapes for senior management meetings.
• Analyse business performance matrix for business/desk reviews.
• Create scorecards to monitor business objectives and propose management actions.
• Drive optimisation and automation of databases and standardised reports.
• Organise work under pressure, manage time and priorities effectively.

Desirable Skills

• Experience in business management, business strategy or COO functions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of investment banking products, lending and credit approval processes and regulations.
• Strong analytical skills and experience creating dashboards with Tableau, Power BI or similar.
• Expertise in MS Office applications; knowledge of SQL, VBA an advantage.
• Deep understanding of financial markets and products.
• Excellent verbal and written communication; strong interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Willingness to learn, challenge, drive and embrace business change.
• Ability to handle ambiguous tasks and deliver clear output suitable for audiences.

Location

This role will be based out of DLF Downtown Gurugram.