This individual will interact with varied group of individuals and teams locally and globally.
- Upwards: Global Technology (GT) Chief of Staff, Asset & Wealth Management Technology Chief of Staff, AWM Global CTOs
- Sideways: AWM Tech India Leadership Team (LT), AWM Tech India HR and Recruitment, AWM India Business leads, AWM Tech Strategy Lead, AWM Tech Communications, GT India Communications, AWM Tech Business leads
- Downwards: AWM Tech India EDs and all Technology
The Chief of Staff will support the Asset and Wealth Management Technology India LOB in:
- Identifying strengths and opportunities and formulating pragmatic recommendations to drive the mindset and culture of deep collaboration, innovation, efficiency and productivity.
- Driving regional transparency, consistency, communication, alignment and optimization across AWM Technology organization in the region, through strong partnerships with internal teams
- Maintaining oversight of the delivery of AWM Technology’s strategic imperatives and extending needed support, as well as keeping senior stakeholders informed on what’s going on within AWM Technology India
- Partner and support Leads of global and local initiatives
- Providing timely, thought leading and quality (data-driven) management updates as required to various leadership stakeholders across business and technology.
- Drive “One Team” culture. Create a culture of accountability, sense of urgency and team building across AWM Tech India.
Job Responsibilities: -
- Provide strategic support to AWM Tech India CTO and India Tech Leadership
- Support AWM Tech India CTO in shaping regional priorities and governing their implementation, which includes (but is not limited to)keeping global CTOs, stakeholders informed of goals and progress , and driving cross-functional alignment towards the goals.
- Actively support and/or drive Global Tech and AWM initiatives such as Culture, DEI and Talent acquisition workstreams. Partner with leadership team and firmwide communication groups in developing a comprehensive AWM and Technology communications strategy to engage with the 1800+ employees.
- Steer execution of divisional level priorities in the context of India (includes hiring / training / DEI etc.)
- Develop management insights, analysis and tech updates.
- Aid in the prompt and seamless escalation of divisional or regional risks / issues and their resolution.
- Partner with the India LT and India Strategy lead to execute events such as strategy offsite, management forums and senior visits
- Contribute to divisional and India level tech initiatives within AWM Tech India
- Foster stronger local coordination and collaboration at AWM India level on cross-AWM initiatives
- Partner with regional Business management team to regular review resource utilization metrics (RTOO, Desk utilization), Organizational metrics (Headcount, attrition/mobility), Financial metrics and other departmental metrics.
- Manage overall divisional updates on org structure, org efficiency, processes improvements.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- A minimum of 15+ years’ experience in the Technology function of a firm and Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in Engineering and/or Business Administration or similar field
- Strong Influencer who can understand team dynamics and organizations boundaries /constraints.
- Experience working with globally distributed teams.
- Excellent interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task, challenge status quo and be motivated to work on a broad range of activities, from strategic through to tactical.
- A self-starter, creative and lateral thinker with a strong focus on execution.
- Must be organized, accurate and dependable, with a data-driven mindset.
- Pro-active in resolving problems and ensuring targets are met / results achieved.
- Ability to flex / stretch based on the needs of the team/organisation.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Work Experience in a global bank with experience in data analysis and budget management
- Technology program delivery experience will become quite useful.
- Proven experience in global coordination role
- Nimble business mind, focused on developing creative solutions.
- Strong project-reporting skills, with focus on global and interdepartmental communications