Executive Director - Leading Finance, Risk & Regulatory Function

SupportFinity™; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Ongoing learning opportunities

Diverse and inclusive culture

Competitive family-friendly benefits

Job summary

SupportFinity™ is seeking an Executive Director to lead Finance, Risk & Regulatory functions in Bengaluru. The role involves advising clients, delivering transformation projects, and ensuring financial compliance.

Ideal candidates will have deep expertise in financial risk management and change management, with a track record of success in high-stakes environments. You will foster client relationships and contribute strategically to finance functions across leading financial services firms.

Qualifications

• Experience in advising on and implementing regulations such as Basel and IFRS.
• Strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and processes.
• Experience of delivering transformation projects within finance functions.

Responsibilities

• Support clients in achieving compliance with regulatory obligations.
• Design solutions and manage project delivery.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with external clients.

Skills

Financial Risk Management

Change Management

Regulatory Compliance

Stakeholder Management

Financial Analysis

Education

Accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA)

Tools

ERP Systems

Job description

Executive Director - Leading Finance, Risk & Regulatory Function

Capco | Posted Mar 13

Full-time

Negotiable

Unknown

Role- Executive Director- Leading Finance, Risk & Regulatory Function.

Location- Bengaluru

Experience - Must have a combination of SME skills in Financial Risk and Finance, Transformation and Consulting.

Function- Capability Head- Finance, Risk And Regulatory Functions

Role Description

We are looking to recruit Finance and Treasury Transformation candidates with deep knowledge of the domain into our growing Financial Crime, Risk, Regulation and Finance (FRRF) capability. You will have strong change management experience and a background in financial services.

You will be involved in advising clients and delivering transformation across the Finance and Treasury functions of our clients, in support of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer. The type of work you will get involved in includes Finance and Treasury implementation of strategic changes (e.g. ledger transformation and process excellence for controls, balance sheet and capital optimisation, analytics and reporting), regulatory changes (e.g. Basel, IFRS, PRA, EBA) and delivery of reporting (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP and RRP). You will spend time with clients dealing with problems as they arise and gaining valuable experience and exposure to how the projects and client organisations work across the financial services industry.

The Type Of Projects We Cover

• Finance and Treasury strategy and operating models, including Balance Sheet Management and Capital optimization strategies
• Implementation of regulatory changes e.g. Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, PRA, EBA
• Finance and shared services / outsourcing
• Finance organisation design
• Financial regulatory reporting and change
• Finance function process improvement including digital process modelling, automation and AI
• Cost reduction exercises, with effective benefit realisation plan
• Benchmarking the finance function
• Performance management including budgeting and forecasting
• Finance IT strategy - including embedding applicable digital technologies (i.e accounting engine, subledger, cloud adoption)

In your role as a Finance and Treasury Transformation Consultant, you will have responsibility for:

• Supporting our clients to achieve compliance with regulatory obligations, including dealing with remediation and response to regulatory reviews
• Designing solutions, delivering on client assignments and owning delivery of projects
• Ensuring management information is provided to, and easily understood by, programme leads, senior management and client committees
• Defining and managing monitoring processes
• Building assurance and control capabilities in line with regulatory expectations and risk appetite
• Liaising with internal control and risk functions across three lines of defence
• Managing stakeholder expectations spanning global business areas with conflicting priorities
• Ensuring timely escalation and control of risks, issues, dependencies and timelines
• Developing long-term trusted advisor relationships with external clients and industry contacts
• Understanding business models and helping translate them into business requirements and test scenarios for handover to IT partners
• Working collaboratively with relevant Capco teams in identifying opportunities for and securing new business
• Supporting the sharing of knowledge and experience with the team to help develop your colleagues and the capability of the firm

Skills and Expertise

Finance / Accounting / Treasury

• Demonstrate understanding and experience of advising on and implementing regulations such as Basel, Solvency II, IFRS, SOX, GDPR, PRA, EBA) and delivery of reporting (e.g. ICAAP, ILAAP and RRP)
• Accounting qualification (CIMA, ACCA, ACA) (desirable)
• Demonstrate strong understanding of accounting fundamentals and processes, for example: profit & loss, balance sheet, capital allocation, cost allocation
• Good understanding of the role of the Finance and Treasury function within financial services organisations, including all aspects of the finance operating model (people, data, technology)
• Experience of delivering transformation projects within finance functions, either as a consultant or as part of an in-house change-delivery team. This could be finance technology projects (e.g., ERP, Accounting Engines/Subledger/Finance Reporting implementations), right-shoring or other operating model transformations or finance process improvements
• Understanding the impact of the relationship between finance and other functions such as risk, tax and compliance
• Experience of working with the C-Suite - CFO, CRO, CDO community (desirable)

PM / BA Skills

• Experience in managing change projects, including finance/ regulatory transformation, resource management, budgeting, communications and governance
• Understanding of the project lifecycle from requirements through to implementation
• Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills, with an ability to work with stakeholders across all business functions to define requirements
• Ability to Work with technology partners to translate these requirements into functional and technical design
• Experienced at running workshops to drive discussions, gather requirements and mitigate risks with users and senior stakeholders
• Appreciation of business and technical architecture
• Knowledge of formal project management methods e.g., Agile, PMI, Prince 2 (desirable)

Other Expectations

• To balance client delivery with supporting development of new client opportunities or market propositions and sales activities with the capability and client accounts

For senior level candidates

• Mentor and coach other members of the team
• Solution development, showing a clear ability as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to enhance existing propositions, and develop new ones
• People management, building a team of consultants with the right mix of grades, skills and experience to support client opportunities and projected growth
• Develop, drive and convert a pipeline of opportunities and lead on RFP responses
• Fulfil a key role in account and proposition development within Market Domains and Key Client Accounts, assisting senior management to increase revenue
• Formulate propositions and solutions that meet client requirements in addition to managing and directing pursuit activity
• Strong bid management abilities, with a proven ability to mentor and train Consultants
• Drive thought leadership and client campaigns
• Build and maintain strong client relationships within the sector, leveraging proven industry content and delivery capability

Our work culture is focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees. This means that we will work with you to track your development so you know how you are doing and where you can improve. At this early stage in your career, you will have access to inspirational leaders and high-quality training, to give you every opportunity to become a recognised expert.

Successful candidates can build relationships quickly with colleagues and clients. Flexibility is also key, you will need to handle changing priorities and workloads and as you grow, you would also need to have the capacity to take on greater responsibilities such as development of service offerings and client campaigns as you develop within the firm. You should be intellectually curious and interested in developing your professional and technical skills, to understand clients’ issues and to help them to prosper.

WHY JOIN CAPCO?

You will work on engaging projects with some of the largest banks in the world, on projects that will transform the financial services industry.

We Offer

• A work culture focused on innovation and building lasting value for our clients and employees
• Ongoing learning opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise
• A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work with senior partners and directly with clients
• A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture
• Enhanced and competitive family friendly benefits, including maternity / adoption / shared parental leave and paid leave for sickness, pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, menopause and bereavement