As a Vice President in the Alternative Investments CFO Team you will be relied on to own the financials of a diverse set of products and strategies, working regularly with the CIOs and their team members to inform, guide and communicate their successes and challenges. In this high-profile position, you'll leverage your exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills to implement strategic initiatives, mitigate business risks, and enhance financial performance. This role will require you to be highly collaborative, fast-thinking, creative, critical and solution oriented. You'll need to be able to toggle between strategic planning and practical solutions, between high-level concepts and detailed-driven analysis.
Job Responsibilities:
- Implement new business strategy, strategic initiatives or platforms, including aligning department and support groups (Finance, Tech, Ops, Legal, Compliance)
- Optimize 'bottom line' business performance by driving key initiatives (fees, cost base, RWA and capital utilization)
- Identify, escalate and mitigate business risks that could impair our ability to do business: e.g. legal, tax, regulatory, capacity issues, extraordinary transaction costs
- Analyze financial performance, including expenses; identify productivity initiatives and drive implementation
- Partner with the business, Operations and Technology in the definition of future workflows and implementation of related technology and infrastructure projects to prepare the business to meet the requirements of an ever evolving market structure
- Partner with the relevant external service/ infrastructure providers
- Represent in respective internal/external working groups
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or other related area
- Previous product knowledge and/or prior Business Management or COO experience
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Present well to senior and global business heads
- Able to forge strong internal relationships across a broad range of functions
- Self-motivated, tenacious and able to work with high degree of independence
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, energetic and dynamic in style
- Able to both define and deliver to conclusion a strategic agenda across multiple groups
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
- Attention to detail with logical thought process