Senior Vice President Finance — Regional Banking Planning and Business Economics

The mandate

A regional banking platform is creating an SVP finance seat to connect planning teams that currently support products and markets separately. Senior leaders receive accurate local forecasts but cannot easily distinguish business momentum from funding assumptions, central allocations or changes in portfolio composition. The opening eighteen-month agenda is to make regional resource choices economically transparent. Employment is open-ended, with continuing responsibility for forecast quality and business challenge after the first planning redesign, rather than a temporary reporting transformation assignment.

You will examine the drivers behind product contribution, including customer activity, fee realisation, service cost and the funding assumptions provided by treasury. Forecasts should explain how volume, mix and capacity interact instead of treating revenue and headcount as independent lines. Comparisons across markets need a documented bridge for currency, policy and allocation differences. The role is not responsible for setting treasury policy or certifying regulatory capital; it makes the authorised assumptions understandable when business executives propose growth, contraction or investment.

The SVP leads thirty-two colleagues through planning and business-finance managers, owning the regional planning calendar, analytical standards and executive review pack. You may reprioritise finance resources and require a revised business case before financial concurrence. Regional executives decide operating strategy, while the CFO approves material financial-policy changes. Risk appetite and statutory reporting remain with their designated owners. Your challenge must be strong enough to expose weak economics, yet practical enough that business leaders can act without waiting for a perfect model or an additional committee cycle.

The first programme should leave a driver-based forecast, a consistent product-economics dictionary and a record of resource decisions linked to subsequent results. Future cycles will use that architecture to respond to changing customer demand and cost pressures. Bengaluru is the primary workplace, with planned Asia-Pacific engagement rather than continuous travel. Developing finance managers who can challenge senior stakeholders is part of the enduring seat. The board expects a stronger decision institution, not a finance executive whose personal presentation skills conceal fragile analytical ownership underneath.

What you will own

• Define a regional product-economics dictionary that reconciles customer activity, fee income and service costs, exposing where comparisons change because of authorised funding or allocation assumptions rather than commercial performance.
• Decide planning review thresholds for material volume, mix and capacity changes, requiring business sponsors to present economic sensitivities before additional resources receive financial concurrence or enter the regional forecast.
• Build scenario bridges connecting market outlook, treasury-supplied assumptions and operating choices, making the business consequences of uncertainty visible without substituting finance forecasts for formal risk-appetite decisions.
• Set executive reporting that traces forecast movements to named drivers and owners, distinguishing new information from unexplained management overlays and retaining a record of judgement at each review cycle.
• Challenge investment benefits against actual customer and capacity evidence, identifying whether a proposed product initiative creates incremental contribution or merely relocates income and cost across regional reporting boundaries.
• Develop finance managers through stakeholder reviews and analytical coaching, delegating product challenge with clear escalation criteria so regional decision quality does not depend on one senior presenter assembling every pack.

Candidate qualifications

• Bring twenty-two to twenty-eight years of finance experience with substantial banking or financial-services planning responsibility at VP or comparable level. Demonstrate a business-resource decision you changed through product economics or forecast challenge, identifying the assumptions you owned and those supplied by treasury or risk. The evidence must show influence over actual allocation, not simply preparation of a sophisticated planning presentation.
• Hold Chartered Accountancy or a comparable rigorous finance qualification and show strong management-accounting judgement. You must reconcile financial results with business drivers, explain allocation differences and distinguish authorised funding assumptions from commercial outcomes. Experience should include designing forecasts that remain intelligible through currency, mix and policy changes rather than relying on year-on-year comparisons that hide their underlying causes.
• Evidence senior stakeholder leadership across products, markets or shared services where competing definitions of performance required resolution. Describe how you made uncertainty explicit, secured agreement on a decision basis and challenged a powerful sponsor without claiming authority over risk appetite or statutory reporting. Practical knowledge of banking operations should support your analysis rather than be confined to a finance-only reporting perspective.
• Have developed planning and business-finance leaders who could independently defend a forecast or investment view. You should be comfortable setting review standards, correcting unsupported overlays and communicating unwelcome resource recommendations to executives. The expanded scope requires regional collaboration, secure treatment of sensitive business information and a disciplined understanding of the boundaries between financial concurrence, operating strategy and regulated professional responsibilities.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 11 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-PER-2026-IND-012.