Job ID : 2287

About Company

Being amongst the leading small finance banks in the country, as a mass market bank, our client remains committed to serve the unserved and underserved segments through financial and digital inclusion. A one-stop destination for financial services and personalised customer experience to the wide customer base.

Commenced its operations as an NBFC in 2005, with the mission to provide a full range of financial services to the ‘economically active poor’, on receiving of License from RBI in 2017 set up their Small Finance Bank. Mission is to provide financial services to the unserved and underserved customers as responsible mass market bank, focused on building a sustainable tomorrow. They have the scale, capability and the commitment to emerge as a best-in-class institution with deeply embedded values and culture, which shapes all their actions.

The Bank has a Pan-India presence, with over 79 lakh customers, 700 banking touchpoints across 304 districts, 26 states and Union Territories.

Job Description

ROLE PURPOSE & OBJECTIVE 

1. Overall financial planning and strategy, budgeting, analysis and tracking of performance.
2. Help in decision making with appropriate analysis of business and market/ competitor landscape.
3. Regularly upraise management and Board on budgeted vs actual performance and variance analysis. Discuss with business teams on deviations, plan for corrective action and follow-up.
4. Review capital adequacy requirements at regular intervals and initiate fund raise process through appropriate routes like QIP, Rights issue, Follow-on Public Issue, debt syndication etc.
5. Establish investor relations best practices and create strong brand among global and domestic investor base and sell-side analysts 
6. Build strong network and excellent relationship with all capital market intermediaries including merchant bankers.

Business/ Financials 

- Initiates and co-ordinates the formulation of business plans and annual budgets, and monitors progress towards their achievement. 
- Engages with senior management teams and various Board Committees to develop short, medium, and long-term financial plans and projections for the organization. 
- Develops and utilizes financial models and activity-based financial analysis to provide a basis for investment decisions and business planning. 
- Finalizes short term/medium/long term business plans, forecasting, internal/external benchmarking, financial statement review and providing financial analysis to aid in decision making. 
- Develops and monitors business performance metrics and works with Cost centers and key management people to monitor department financial performance, highlight trends across key performance indicators and analyze abnormalities. 
- Creates demand forecasts, business segment projects, ad-hoc business case models and sensitivity analysis. 
- Analyzes complex financial information and reports to provide accurate and timely financial recommendations to management for decision-making purpose. 
- Analyzes revenue and costs, understanding variances against forecast, budget and prior year; presents meaningful analysis with solutions to the senior management. 
- Supports the development of periodic reports on business scorecard and dashboards with key business metrics to guide key information for decision making and benchmark progress against targets, initiatives and strategies.
- Prepares monthly management business reporting packs, quarterly Board packs, Q&A support material for earnings call. 

Investor Relations 

- Formulates communication strategy for the bank basis the organizational objectives and business plan/ outlook. 
- Develops and maintains relation with different investor classes and sell-side analysts through planned and unplanned communication forums with focus on increasing visibility among investor community. 
- Plans, leads and one-point contact for various discussions with different stakeholders including investors, sell-side analysts, internal management team, and various capital intermediaries. 
- Organizes and represents the Bank in management meetings, conferences, road shows etc. to disseminate the Banks’s strategy, outlook, performance etc. 
- Manages fund raising process for the Bank, as and when required, through appropriate routes like QIP, Rights issue, Follow-on Public Issue, debt syndication etc. 
- Favorably influences investor perception about the Bank with a brand building strategy. 
- Analyzes trends in institutional shareholder base movement. 

Customer (Both Internal & External) 

- Forges meaningful relationships with departmental heads and become a trusted FP&S partner, highlighting risks, documenting and/or building simulations and sensitivity analyses and suggesting solutions to problems as they arise. 
- Proactively engages and builds strong relationships with the business teams to stay connected on strategies and initiatives. 
- Communicates company financials, business operations, strategy, processes etc. to the institutional investors and sell-side analyst community. 
- Works closely with various business heads, senior management to understand business strategy, outlook, performance etc. 
- Communicates key messages from investors and analysts to senior management. Landscape analysis on peer performance and communication strategy. 

Internal Process 

- Complies with all SEBI requirements under various regulations; work closely with Company Secretary in this regard. 
- Analyzes company performance and strategy and preparing report/ MIS deck for senior management periodically. 

Innovation & Learning 

- Builds and monitors manpower to ensure sufficient knowledge, experience, professional qualifications in FP&S. 
- Imparts capital market related skills, know-hows and domain knowledge to investor relations team and equip them to execute investor relations strategy of the Bank.  
- Monitors the knowledge levels and identify skills gaps of the FP&S/ IR team and put in place a continuous training program to update their knowledge and skills. 
- Identifies sensitive roles and create back-ups to ensure uninterrupted operations. 
- Supervises the performance of employees and conduct their annual performance appraisal. As a skip level supervisor oversee the performance of second level managers, identify their training and development needs.   
- Identifies various areas to improve efficiencies in the department and engage technology solution to improve productivity especially in transactional job areas.
- Builds powerful networks with various industry bodies to imbibe and share best practices. 
- Keeps abreast of internal and regulatory guidelines and make adequate changes as required. 
- Undertakes additional certifications, trainings and mandatory programs advised by HR department.