Assistant Vice President Operations

Kotak Life Insurance PVT Ltd; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,300,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Kotak Life Insurance PVT Ltd. is seeking an Assistant Vice President - Operations in Mumbai to lead a team and drive regulatory oversight, financial analytics and governance across finance and operations.

The role blends analytical rigor with operational leadership, focusing on control frameworks and management reporting to senior leadership. Strong collaboration with compliance, actuarial and product teams is essential.

Qualifications

• MBA Finance/CA or equivalent professional qualification.
• Proven experience in team handling / leadership roles.

Responsibilities

• Managing the preparation, review and submission of regulatory returns and reports to compliance.
• Preparing and presenting management reports, dashboards, and highlights to senior management.
• Budgeting: prepare annual operations budget and analyze variances.
• Provide advisory based on data analysis to management.
• Drive automation of reports/MIS using tools like SQL, Access, Excel, SAS.
• Liaise with compliance, actuarial, products and other stakeholders for governance reporting.
• Resolve challenges in delivering outputs and manage a team.
• Undertake other tasks per management requirements.

Skills

Team leadership

Financial controls

Governance frameworks

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Execution skills

Education

MBA Finance

Chartered Accountant (CA)

Graduate

Tools

SQL

Microsoft Access

Excel

SAS

Excel Macros

Job description

Job Title: Assistant Vice President - Operations

Experience: 6 year +

Education: Graduate / Post Graduate

Department: Operations

This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of finance, operations, and governance in a fast-paced environment.

Role Overview

As part of the Operations team, you will lead a team and drive financial oversight, process excellence, and strong control frameworks. The role requires a blend of analytical rigor, operational understanding, and leadership capability.

This is a key role entrusted with regulatory reporting, business analysis and advisory and management reporting activities. Basis the technical skills of team and self, expected to give out meaningful analysis and insights of company’s business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing the preparation, review and submission of various regulatory returns, reports and statements, to be submitted to compliance team.
• Managing the preparation, review and submission of various management reports, dashboards, highlights, presentations to the senior management of the company.
• Prepare annual operations budget along with actual vs budget variance analysis
• Provide advisory to management basis by doing various analysis basis available data, information
• Participate and contribute for projects as needed also drive automation of various reports and MIS through tools like macro and applications like SQL, Access, Excel, SAS etc.
• Liaise with compliance, actuarial, products team and other stake holders for understanding various aspects of the insurance business and harness the same for management or regulatory reporting.
• To resolve any challenges which the team might experience in providing the above deliverable and manage a team
• Any other task as per management requirement

Who We Are Looking For

• MBA Finance/Qualified CA/Graduate
• Experience can be from any industry
• Proven experience in team handling / leadership roles
• Strong understanding of financial controls, audit processes, and governance frameworks
• Demonstrated job stability and continuity in prior roles
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and execution skills

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to work in a core operations leadership role
• Exposure to end-to-end business and financial processes
• High visibility with cross-functional stakeholders and leadership
• Platform to drive impact through process excellence and governance