Expert, Group Cost Management (40001431)

• Improve quality of bank-wide operational cost management in the E2E cost management process from planning to spending, reporting & analyzing the effectiveness of operating costs; and perform overall financial control to subsidiaries/associates from planning to actual performance in line with Group bank's strategic plan
• Be responsible for specialized topics on cost management

• Improve quality of bank-wide operational cost management in the E2E cost management process from planning to spending, reporting & analyzing the effectiveness of operating costs; and perform overall financial control to subsidiaries/associates from planning to actual performance in line with Group bank's strategic plan
• Be responsible for specialized topics on cost management

• Control cost effectively to meet business performance target, from planning to actual performance analysis:
  • Perform the opex annual planning of the bank, including:

i) Build the topdown number & principles for opex annual planning;

ii) Build processes, templates and tools for opex annual planning for the whole bank with breakdown by divisions, departments; and

iii) Consolidate, analyse and provide insights to refine and reallocate cost resouces in order to meet the topdown and finalize opex planning of the bank

• Prepare monthly EXCO report on cost topic to bring insights and recommendations to BOM to repurpose and optimize cost resources
  • Coordinate with centralized functions to analyse cost effectiveness and make recommendations to allocate resources from non-productive areas to productive ones
  • Support Senior expert/ Senior manager to perform specialised topics on cost management
  • Planning and coordinating with stakeholders to implement specialized cost management topics
  • Perform financial control for the subsidiaries/ affiliates and other long-term investment of the bank, including:
• Control the overall financial planning of the subsidiaries/ affiliates which cover for both TOI, cost, balance sheet and general financial indicators of the subsidiaries/ affiliates
• Play the key role as contact point to supervise the whole interaction between the bank and its subsidiaries/ affiliates to ensure the operations of the subsidiaries/ affiliates are consistent with the bank's management governance, including but not limited to following tasks:

i) Co-operate with subsidiaries/ affiliates to evaluate, analyse and finalize pricing for their services providing to the bank

ii) Post control and review management reports of the subsidiaries/ affiliates to ensure their cost spending in a cosistent manner with the bank's governance framework

iii) Coordinate the control, financial supervision and performance management reports of the subsidiaries/ affiliates, detecting errors as well as abnormal issues in costs, revenue, non-compliance issues with the laws and the bank's standards & regulations; and define action for risks prevention

iv) Co-operate with stakeholders in the bank to evaluate business cases of the subsidiaries/ affiliates to meet the overall target of the bank

• Support Senior Expert to improve & develop new tools, methods, models for budgeting, forecasting and cost-effective analysis
• Participate in projects related to cost management of the bank
• Other tasks as assigned by the Department Manager

Degree/professional: Having a university degree or higher at a university in Economics, Finance, Banking. Preference will be given to those who have a university degree and are intensively trained in economics, banking and finance, especially studying international financial programs.

• Experience: 8 years
• English: Follow prevailing TCB's regulation