CIB F&BM Technology Product Control – Sr Associate - Vice President

The Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Finance and Business Management (F&BM) group provides financial advice to support the CIB’s business strategy and helps to ensure a sound control environment.

The CIB Technology Product Control team will partner closely with the executive management (CFO, CIO, F&BM management team) to provide leadership, oversight, and support for CIB Technology, a $3B+ organization that partners with all business lines in the CIB and firm-wide to deliver application technology solutions.

The Senior Associate / Vice President will help enhance the organization’s strategy to manage its financials and meet a ~$1B externally committed expense reduction target.  The team will own the related annual and monthly financial processes end-to-end, including forward looking analytics and driving a key set of tools throughout line of business aligned teams.  The Senior Associate / Vice President will also influence existing business management processes to feed into the annual and monthly financial processes.  The goals of the team will be to improve CIB Technology’s effectiveness (e.g., control, clarity, and transparency) and efficiency (e.g., reduce time to market of senior deliverables, accuracy, and simplification).

The candidate must possess strong strategic and critical thinking skills complemented by an energetic, positive attitude when faced with new, unique challenges.  Other critical skills include: 

·         communicating complex issues in a clear and concise manner for senior management

·         ability to articulate a “narrative” around dense or detailed financial system outputs

·         financial system acumen (i.e., Essbase, advanced Excel)

·         analytical, influencing, and presentation skills

·         highly organized

·         willingness to work independently at times to “figure things out”

Areas of responsibilities include, but are not limited to, simplifying the annual planning process, improving forecasting capabilities, streamlining related deliverables, eliminating system or tool set complexity, identify pragmatic and scaleable solutions to drive clarity across key financial spends and savings levers, and clearly communicating priorities. 

Key Requirements:

·         5+ years of Technology Finance experience

·         Proficient in Essbase, SAPCO, Paragon

·         Strong working knowledge of MS Excel

·         Superior analytical abilities

·         Clear communication skills, and the ability to articulate complex issues concisely

·         Excellent organization skills

·         Excellent presentation skills