Cost and Planning Lead

**Role Purpose**:
Cost and Planning lead for the Risk and Compliance function will be reporting into the COO organization and will support COO in the cost and planning to allow for proper oversight and analysis. The cost and planning lead will ensure COO has visibility on the costs related to risk and compliance, key issues, budgetary consideration, activities, and provide visibility to the CRO and CCO heads.

Responsibilities of Cost and Planning lead include financial management and people management processes, adhering to bank policies, governance and MI. In addition, this area is responsible for management of consultancy spend and management of Risk and Compliance growth. Cost and Planning lead role will be responsible for supporting COO in delivering against these objectives.

This role will assist building effective HCP management framework, streamline cost and planning processes, identify synergies across the cost and planning domain and properly analyse the intercompany charges document the changes and keep up to date records.

**Impact on the Business**
- Implementing a consistent and effective approach for cost and planning across the risk and compliance.
- Managing and monitoring the cost centers.
- Ensuring the identification and implementation of best practice across the organization to enable the highest operational standards.
- Defining and adopting best practice through collaborating with our key business partners (e.g. Finance, DBS, LoB leads)
- Co-ordinate the MI & Governance processes for reporting to the key risk and compliance stakeholders’ meetings.

**Customers / Stakeholders**
- Build strong relationships, adopting a joined up approach, to execute processes at pace and with minimum conflict
- Ensuring that internal and external regulatory requirements are met
- Ensuring that the business operates using accepted industry - standard methodologies, practices, processes and principles
- Innovation and improvement of methodologies, through adoption of best practice and continued professional development and ensuring these meet required standards and regulations.

**Leadership & Teamwork**
- Drive a high performance culture through delivering standards, collaboration and effective people interaction
- Agree responsibilities within formal and informal network, providing context, direction and confidence to deliver results
- Collaborate with other business partners and Global Functions areas to ensure commonality and consistency of solutions

**Operational Effectiveness & Control**
- Implement quality framework for Risk and Compliance.
- Ensure that all staff and activities comply with existing regulations and auditory requirements.
- Ensure implementation of audit recommendations and maintaining satisfactory level of audits for our business areas

Requirements

**Qualifications**:
**Technical’ Competence**
- Ability to distil complex and varied data into information
- Attention to detail and ability to ensure that information is captured in a timely manner.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good process analysis and problem solving skills
- Good financial management ability

**Focus**
- The ability to quickly understand customer requirements and concerns and deliver a quality result to them
- Delivery-focused with attention to detail and ensure tasks are completed on time and to the required levels of quality.
- Proven ability to prioritise workload effectively in line with business priorities.
- ‘Can Do’ attitude. Willing to turn a hand to whatever task is required.

**Judgment**
- Skilled decision-maker - considered and timely especially when under pressure.
- Able to delegate effectively where necessary.

**Relationships**
- Ability to build relationships by communicating, influencing and negotiating effectively with business heads, senior managers, third party consultants, technical experts across the whole department and business users.
- Willingness to own work and problems and see through to completion and to use own initiative to resolve issues, whilst dealing with a diverse range of people.
- Strong interpersonal skills, coupled with the ability to succeed within a matrix management structure and build and maintain global team relationships.
- Able to delegate effectively where necessary.

**Energy**
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision and to contribute to a larger team; and a flexible approach to working hours and responsibilities
- Self-motivation, and a proven rapid learning capability in a changing environment are essential.
- Drive and tenacity to ensure change is effectively implemented in a matrix environment.
- Committed to personal and professional development.
- Able to work independently, proactively and under pressure against multiple deadlines

**Leadership capabilities**

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