AVP - Business Management UKCB

Location: Gurugram, DLF Downtown
Department: Finance

We are seeking an Assistant Vice President - Business Management UKCB to support the effective running of the UKCB CEO Office. The successful candidate will coordinate and review executive governance, accelerate execution of strategic objectives, and support strategic and ad-hoc priorities.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support effective Executive Governance across the UKCB CEO Office, ensuring Group ExCo and UKCB ExCo agendas are aligned to execution priorities and connected across governance forums.
• Own and maintain key UKCB CEO Office priority trackers and planners, coordinating inputs across multiple stakeholders, validating the accuracy and quality of information, tracking progress, and proactively identifying gaps, risks, and competing priorities.
• Support the Director and VP of the UKCB CEO Office to maintain a clear view of priorities, challenging and advising where appropriate to ensure focus remains on the most important outcomes and issues requiring attention.
• Drive stronger information and insight sharing across the UKCB CEO Office and wider Chief of Staff Office, evolving measures and KPIs where required.
• Work across UKCB to improve Consistently Excellent standards, streamline operating processes, and remove barriers to execution.
• Oversee UKCB CEO Office-owned policies, processes, and procedures, identifying opportunities to simplify and strengthen ways of working.
• Support strategic and ad-hoc priorities and projects on behalf of the UKCB Chief of Staff, UKCB CEO Office Director, and wider Chief of Staff Office, as required.

Stakeholder Management and Leadership: The role holder will work closely with colleagues across the UKCB CEO Office, wider Chief of Staff Office, and UKCB Business Management teams, building strong relationships with senior stakeholders across UKCB and the wider firm.

Decision-making and Problem Solving: The role holder will gather, review, and analyse information from across UKCB, ensuring its accuracy and identifying issues, gaps, and competing priorities. They will exercise sound judgement, constructively challenge where appropriate, and provide clear recommendations to the UKCB CEO Office Director and Chief of Staff.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Track record of operating within a Chief of Staff or Business Management function, demonstrating discretion and the ability to manage highly sensitive matters at a senior level.
• Highly organised and disciplined, with the ability to forward plan, anticipate risks, and bring together teams across the organisation to resolve issues.
• Strong experience co-ordinating and tracking complex deliverables against tight timeframes.
• Strong written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively at senior levels.
• Ability to synthesise multiple information sources into clear, concise materials for senior audiences.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience reviewing Board and Committee papers, including financial reports and business-related MI.
• Experience of horizon scanning and identifying emerging issues and priorities.
• Ability to analyse financial and business MI and identify key discussion points for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to simplify complex information into clear priorities, applying a systematic, disciplined, and analytical approach while operating effectively in ambiguity.
• Experience supporting and driving projects and initiatives across organisational boundaries, with the ability to influence across reporting lines.