Associate - Performance Steering - PM Synthesis

About Business Line/Function Performance Steering within Finance Shared Services is responsible for internal management reporting, providing financial insights to CIB management, Business Lines and Functions. The team provides services such as:

  • Management Accounting for Revenue and Expenses
  • Management Reporting
  • Management Accounting System Administration
  • Reconciliation of Management and Financial Accounting
  • Intercompany alignment
Job Title Associate Date 24-02-2026

Department FS P&L

Location

Mumbai

Business Line / Function CIB Finance

Reports To (Direct)

Vice President

Grade (if applicable)

(Functional)

Number Of Direct Reports 3

Directorship / Registration NA

Position Purpose The jobholder will be responsible for performing controls over management accounting and ensuring alignment between Management accounting (MA) and Financial accounting (FA). The scope of the role will cover entire CIB including GB, GM, 2S, ITO and other CIB. Jobholder will ensure that any discrepancy between FA and MA gets resolved and open issues get highlighted to the stakeholders on timely basis.

This role requires coordination with all business lines within CIB and local performance management teams across regions. The jobholder will be the SPOC for communication with Central CIB Synthesis team.

Responsibilities Direct Responsibilities

  • Act as a key liaison between several key department stakeholders
  • Manage / perform reconciliation and control checks between revenues/expenses in management accounting & financial accounting systems
  • Manage / perform adjustments in management accounting system for correct management reporting
  • Ensure monthly reporting (Flash/Actuals) & other related management reporting (Cost of Risk/European Central Bank reporting/etc) to Head Office are completed within pre-set deadlines
  • Prepare monthly management reports & other related management reporting within pre-set deadlines
  • Work closely with regional Meter PMs / Country PMs and Head Office
  • Monitor intercompany breaks and reach out to local PMs for resolution of the same
  • Provide analysis and response to questions raised by HO Finance / Regional Finance / internal management
  • Ensure the figures reported are accurate and compliant with Head Office Management Accounting rules and principles
  • Update, maintain and advise on monthly system parameters & referential (i.e. mapping tables) for management reporting
  • Manage adhoc assignments as requested by HO Finance / Regional Finance / internal management.
  • Perform sanity checks / high-level reviews of monthly and quarterly reports, raising questions to the senior reporting analysts for further investigation
  • Review process documents and keep the procedures for production of all reporting tasks up-to-date
  • Analyze and understand the revenue and expenses reported by the entities in order to ensure the quality and completeness of the data.
  • Increase the accuracy of the process thanks to controls and strict supervision. Be responsible of the right application and provide evidences of the outputs of these controls.
Contributing Responsibilities Projects, Systems Support, Operational Process Improvements
  • Assist in identifying process improvements in production, control procedures, and workflow organization to increase the team’s efficiency and effectiveness
  • Participate in the upgrades / version releases of respective reporting tools, as well as system amendments / enhancements required to facilitate new / modified reporting requirements. In connection with this effort, assist in user acceptance testing and troubleshooting after deployment.
  • Help formulate system enhancements for operational process improvements in production, control procedures and workflow to increase efficiency and effectiveness. Assisting in integrating and streamlining reporting under the team’s responsibility.
  • Provide cross-training to colleagues and perform specific duties as assigned (e.g. coverage for colleagues
Technical & Behavioral Competencies Skills Referential Specific Qualifications (if required) – CA, MBA Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Client focused

Communication skills - oral & written

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Education Level Master Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 7 years

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