Job Description

Business Function: Group Planning supports the Bank in the origination and execution of key strategic transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, investments and joint ventures, divestments, capital management and other ad-hoc strategic initiatives, to maximize the Bank's financial and competitive position.
Job Purpose:

• This role focusses on strategic planning within DBS:
• You will be part of developing and framing the overall strategy for the Group.
• You will be integral towards implementing the Group’s strategic agenda across all business, middle office and support units; and across geographies to drive scorecard strategic initiatives.
• You will need to have your finger on the pulse on macro trends: this includes a scan of the macro environment and trends impacting banking (wide ranging from economic factors to cryptocurrencies) and assessing the impact and implications for the bank and the industry.
• You will be integral in crafting internal and external engagements and messages to communicate the top of the house view to a variety of audiences. This includes ideating, researching and forming view points on critical macro thematic issues that may have longer term implications on the banking landscape
  

Responsibilities:

Working with Group to meet their KPIs

• We lead the management processes, design and track scorecards with all BUs/SUs/Countries.
• We work with all BUs/SUs/Countries to align their achievements to their scorecard.
• The unit is the Secretariat of the Group ExCo and the Group MC.

Maintaining a focus on our strategic objectives and aligning top of the house thinking

• We plan and implement the agenda for Group Leadership Conferences, Group management committee and Board Offsites: From story boarding with senior management, curation of contents to liaising with presenting parties to working with BUs/SUs/Countries on any follow up actions.
• We also prepare the CEO decks for the quarterly board meetings and results briefings.

Building DBS’ brand:

• Ideating, researching and crafting relevant responses to external engagements to showcase our thought leadership, brand and culture is also a key function.
• We are also involved in the writing of the annual report, demonstrating how execution of strategy leads to value creation.

Requirements:

• We are looking for a dynamic and resilient team player, who has a passion for reading and writing and understands the impact of macro-economics, government policies, regulations on business drivers and growth. Ability to connect the dots and developing robust and objective views on top of mind issues, will be a plus.
• Meticulous, have good time management skills and be able to multitask in a fast-paced environment. Thrives under pressure, relishes challenges, can adapt well to changing circumstances and environments and possesses an innate sense of ownership.
• As part of the strategy team, you will need to be analytical with an ability to identify trends and connect it to political, social, financial market, job/employment, economic growth and evaluate implications on current business strategy and help develop a response.
• As part of the strategy team, help to craft cogent decks and messages to a range of internal and external audiences and to connect the dots across the bank’s business and activities, the macro-economic and socio-political environment, as well as the financial services landscape
• Good understanding of bank’s financial statements and experience in financial modelling would be an advantage
• Strong team-player with effective listening, communication, interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
  

Primary Location: Singapore-DBS Asia Central Job: Strategic Planning Schedule: Regular Employee Status: Full-time : Job Posting: Jun 9, 2022, 10:53:44 PM