Transition & GCC Advisory, Assistant Vice President

Key Responsibilities

Transition Management

• Lead end-to-end transition programs across custody operations, capital markets, fund services, asset servicing, and banking operations.
• Manage migration lifecycle including due diligence, process assessment, solution design, knowledge transfer, stabilization, and hypercare.
• Develop transition governance frameworks, project plans, RAID logs, dependency tracking, and executive reporting mechanisms.
• Ensure seamless migration of front-office support, middle-office, and back-office functions with minimal business disruption.
• Drive operational readiness, SOP standardization, and process optimization during transition execution.
• Coordinate with technology, infrastructure, HR, legal, compliance, and finance teams to support successful transitions.
• Responsible for the management of significant high visibility & large – scale initiatives (e.g., strategic change management) including working on multi-disciplinary projects and demonstrate a broad knowledge of the firm and its key functions.
• Support execution of location strategy including setup, expansion, consolidation of global business and functions
• Advise leadership on location strategy, workforce planning, governance models, and target operating model (TOM) frameworks
• Responsible for providing strategic consulting view around transitions in an effort to ensure all transfer decisions are in line with the business strategy.
• Strong management skills who can lead a team in all aspects of transitions, data analysis and business intelligence reporting.
• Report status on assigned program/ project workstream as per defined frequency to ensure alignment of goals and activities across work streams and initiatives
• Research, create, and compile materials needed for effective discussion and planning; Support and maintain tools and templates used in the reporting function.
• Manage logistics of initiative (e.g. meeting and schedule coordination, documentation including agendas

Stakeholder & Governance Management

• Engage with senior stakeholders including business heads, COO organizations, transformation offices, and global operations leadership.
• Prepare executive dashboards, steering committee materials, KPI reporting, and program governance updates.
• Influence strategic decision-making through analytics, reporting insights, and data-driven recommendations.
• Manage relationships across global teams and ensure alignment with enterprise transformation priorities.

Risk, Compliance & Controls

• Ensure all transitions activities comply with regulatory, operational risk, information security, and enterprise governance standards.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Audit, and Legal teams to address regulatory and control requirements.
• Support implementation of robust controls, BCP frameworks, and operational resilience measures.
• Ensure adherence to banking regulations, client confidentiality, and data governance requirements.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify opportunities for process reengineering, automation, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Drive Lean, and continuous improvement initiatives across transitioned functions.
• Support adoption of digital tools, workflow solutions, AI-enabled reporting, and intelligent automation capabilities.
• Contribute to strategic transformation programs within custody and capital markets operations.

Qualification & Requirements

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

• Excellent communication, organization, interpersonal planning, and analytical skills
• Strong understanding of custody operations, asset servicing, capital markets lifecycle, and global banking operations.
• Proven experience managing large-scale transitions and operating model transformations

Education & Preferred Qualifications

• University degree in Business majoring in Accounting, Finance, or other Financial-related programs with experience in Custody Banking, Fund Accounting or Middle Office
• Overall experience of 12-14 years with minimum 6-8 years of transition/project management experience in BFSI domain
• Knowledge of custody platforms, capital markets products, and post-trade operations

Additional requirements

Familiarity with automation, AI/ML enablement, data analytics, and digital transformation programs.(Desirable)

Benefits

No information available.