Job Description

My client is the global leader in payments technology and is embarking on a transformative project to enhance its unsecured lending capabilities in collaboration with a newly onboarded regional client. To support this initiative, we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Cost Management Specialist to join their dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring efficient resource allocation, cost optimization, and financial sustainability throughout the transformation project.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for optimizing direct and indirect cost in the Cards business across multiple markets within Asia.
• Collaborate with market teams, marketing, finance, operations, underwriting and others to understand and optimize costs.
• Develop keen understanding of cost allocations and make sure allocated costs are accurate and logical.
• Develop, maintain, and improve reporting and analysis associated with costs.
• Run cost optimization and revenue initiatives across markets; ensure end to end execution.
• KPIs: CER, CPA, Transaction Margin, and other Cost efficiency improvement metrics.

Qualifications:

• Consumer financial services industry experience and strong understanding of unsecured asset businesses
• Strong experience in cost management and P&L optimization in financial services industry. Solid understanding of Finance and Accounting
• Meticulous grasp of P&L drivers, variance analysis, forecasting, and planning.
• Retail banking experience, familiarity with large bank environment.

Skills

• Strategic leadership, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset and clear results orientation to transform the business.
• Sound judgement and decision-making skills.
• Get it done together mindset and collaboration skills.
• Excellent executive communication skills, customer, and partner relationship skills.
• Must have advanced PowerPoint skills and be able to communicate complex subject matters in simple logical and effective way.

Strong influencing skills navigating in matrixed environments

For more information you can email Dessere Leong in our Singapore office on dessere.leong@teksystems.com or alternatively, apply here to register your interest.

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