Legal Entity Capital Strategic Execution Lead, Director

As the Legal Entity Capital Strategic Execution Lead, you will identify, design and deliver commercially driven processes to improve group legal entity capital management. Key objectives include: Process Simplification: Lead through influence to identify, develop, and implement sustainable and leverageable process enhancements, prioritising simplification and efficiency across capital planning and management activities to unlock commercial opportunities and reduce operational friction. Integrated Controls for Business Resilience: Proactively assess relevant processes and ensure the appropriate existence and effectiveness of controls. Integrate and embed robust control mechanisms within all capital management processes, ensuring data integrity and regulatory compliance, specifically within a legal entity context, thereby safeguarding commercial operations and enabling confident decision-making. Analytical Drive for Commercial Insight: Execute comprehensive analytics, including in-depth financial analysis, key risk driver analysis, and determination of implications for capital, balance sheet composition, and liquidity profile, with specific consideration for legal entity nuances, to provide actionable commercial insights and inform profit-maximising capital strategies. Proactive Issue Resolution for Business Continuity: Self-identify areas for improvement across processes and maintain a continuous improvement mindset, ensuring proactive problem-solving before issues become material. Influence & Collaboration for Unified Commercial Goals: Engage and lead through influence with stakeholders across Finance, business lines, and control functions to coordinate the implementation of capabilities associated with capital planning and management. Present insights and recommendations to senior executives, effectively communicating complex concepts to a wide range of audiences, including international stakeholders. Risk & Compliance Leadership for Sustainable Growth: Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation. Drive compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to Policy, and applying sound ethical judgment, especially concerning international and legal entity specific regulations, to ensure sustainable commercial growth within a robust governance framework. Experience: Experience in 1st Line of Defense (1LOD) capital management experience, including significant exposure to International and Legal Entity Capital Management, within a large, complex financial institution. Capital Regulations Expertise: Strong and comprehensive understanding of capital rules and regulations, including rule interpretation and assessment of implications and compliance, particularly for diverse legal entity structures, with an understanding of how these impact commercial activities. Process Re-engineering Acumen: Proven ability to drive significant process re-engineering efforts, leading to simplification, improved efficiency, and enhanced controls within a global capital management context, resulting in demonstrable commercial benefits. Experience with relevant technology solutions, and technology investment management processes. Leadership Through Influence: Demonstrated ability to lead complex initiatives and drive outcomes through influence, persuasion, and collaboration with diverse stakeholders without direct managerial authority, securing buy-in for commercially strategic initiatives. Strategic & Analytical Thinking: Strategic mindset with the ability to envision future possibilities, translate them into breakthrough strategies, and solve complex technical problems, identifying conflicts and discrepancies to drive optimal solutions, especially in an international context, with a clear, unwavering focus on commercial impact and return generation potential. Communication: Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex information clearly and concisely to senior management and diverse audiences, including international partners, framing discussions in terms of commercial value and strategic advantage. Ownership & Accountability: Strong sense of ownership and accountability for outcomes and process improvements, driving initiatives from conception to completion with a focus on sustainable results and clear, measurable commercial benefits. Education: A Bachelor's degree from a recognised higher education institution is required, preferably in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field. Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.
Job Family Group: Finance Job Family: Capital Planning and Management Time Type: Full time Business Acumen, Capital Planning and Management, Data Analysis, Financial Modeling, Internal Controls, Management Reporting, Problem Solving, Process Execution, Risk Identification and Assessment.
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