New Business Manager recruitment
Your job will involve:
-Managing Finance’s process for the assessment and approval of new business initiatives (i.e. new products, new locations / entities, etc) in the AMER region, and co-ordinating a single, consolidated Finance assessment of each initiative, ensuring all impacted stakeholders (including Group Accounting Policy, Product Control, Valuations Control, Accounting Control Operational Risk, Business Advisory Treasury Analytics, Change the Bank, GOF - Financial Regulatory Reporting, Finance Business Services) are appropriately engaged.
-Working with a senior Finance sponsor and one or more secondary approver(s) to ensure the assessment of each initiative meets their needs, follows a consistent process and captures any requirements / conditions / associated risks to be factored in to their approval decision.
-Engaging with the front office and other control / logistics functions to ensure that the assessment and approval of each initiative runs smoothly, e.g. ensuring that Finance’s information requirements are met and planning / prioritising Finance’s workload.
-Tracking and closing out any post-approval actions (e.g. post-implementation review, compliance with conditions)
-Providing timely, regular inputs for new business-related status reporting and other management information
-Promoting key principles and providing support to Finance and other stakeholders in the region, e.g. in the form of new business-related education, query / issue resolution, status updates and reporting / MI.
-Playing an integral part of Finance’s New Business team, working to refine and enhance the process on an ongoing basis, both as a result of change initiated internally in Finance or more broadly by the business / New Business Group (Risk Control).
-Lead or participate in projects to remediate risks as appropriate
-Perform random testing of key controls and certifications to ensure that they are being performed robustly and in accordance with requirements