The opportunity

This role combines finance business partnering with hands-on AI-enabled transformation. The Assistant Director will deliver forward-looking analysis and executive insight, utilising AI enablement to improve speed, quality, and scale.

Key responsibilities

Finance, performance and insight

- Support performance reporting, financial analysis and executive commentary across Growth & Innovation priorities.
- Define and collate meaningful financial and non-financial measures, including forward-looking indicators, to assess performance and contribution.
- Analyse monthly results, opportunities, engagements, investments and demand drivers; translate findings into actionable business insights.
- Build scenarios, projections and business cases.
- Support planning, budgeting and forecasting; challenge assumptions and produce concise leadership briefings and decision-oriented narratives.

Data, reporting and continuous improvement

- Develop and maintain dashboards, reporting models and analytical tools that explain performance and underlying drivers.
- Improve data quality, lineage, reconciliation, controls and documentation, with clear ownership and sustainable issue resolution.
- Partner across Finance, Markets, Regions, Service Lines and Technology to align solutions and share leading practices.

Leadership contribution

- Act as a trusted advisor to the Growth & Innovation CFO and senior stakeholders, balancing pace, insight quality, risk and practical delivery.
- Drive workstreams independently across time zones, manage competing priorities and influence effectively in a global matrix.
- Coach colleagues in analytical thinking, digital fluency, AI-assisted ways of working and executive storytelling.

Skills and attributes for success

- Strong grounding in FP&A;, corporate financial management, performance management, scenario modelling and business cases.




- Advanced analytical and commercial judgement; able to combine financial and non-financial data, challenge assumptions and distinguish signal from noise.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business needs into structured requirements, prioritised use cases, testable solutions and measurable outcomes.
- Keen interest in hands-on generative AI capability.
- Experience creating reusable prompts, agent instructions, skills, templates and playbooks for analysis, commentary, scenario modelling and leadership reporting.
- Excellent spoken and written English, with strong presentation skills and the confidence to engage and influence senior executives across regions and cultures.
- Intellectually curious and collaborative, able to deliver independently under pressure.

Qualifications and experience

- Bachelor’s degree and/or professional certification in Finance, Accounting, Business, Analytics, Information Systems or a related discipline.
- 7–10 years of relevant experience across FP&A;, strategic finance, business analysis, reporting, analytics or finance transformation, preferably in a global professional-services environment.
- Demonstrated experience implementing digital, automation or AI-enabled solutions with measurable process or decision-support improvement

Preferred technical experience

Robust Excel and data extraction skills (, Analysis Servers cubes, SQL); experience with Power Point, Power BI/Power Query. Experience working with Copilot is an advantage.

Success in the role

- Leadership receives timely, forward-looking insight with clear implications and actions.
- Priority reporting and planning processes become more consistent, controlled and efficient.
- AI use cases become reusable workflows with defined owners, validation and measurable value.
- Finance colleagues strengthen analytical, advisory and AI-enabled delivery capabilities.
- Data, governance and quality standards embedded in traditional and AI-assisted workflows

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📌 Assistant Director-Growth And Innovation Finance (India)
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📍 India