Business Development Executive/Associate

Job Title : IT Risk & Controls Lead – Third Party Risk Management

Location : Pune (Onsite)

Experience : 5+ Years

Notice Period : Immediate or Serving Notice

Employment Type : Full-Time / Contractual

Mandatory Skills : Third Party Risk Management, IT Risk & Controls, System Development & Deployment Controls, Data Movement Controls, Identity & Access Management (IAM).

Key Requirements :

• Mandatory : Third Party Risk Management experience.
• Strong knowledge of IT Risk & Control frameworks (especially in financial services).
• Expertise in System Development, Data Movement, IAM (Identity & Access Management).
• Familiarity with Non-Financial Risk, compliance, and governance.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and analytical skills.
• Tools : MS Excel, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Confluence.

Responsibilities :

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management on IT risk and control matters
• Govern controls across development, data, and access processes
• Ensure compliance with risk frameworks and identify areas for improvement
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, IT, and Business teams to strengthen controls
• Support audits, regulatory compliance, and risk reporting

Preferred :

• Experience working in global teams and diverse cultural environments
• Knowledge of automation opportunities in control processes

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Collection and Preparation:
• Gathering data from various sources (databases, APIs, files).
• Cleaning and preprocessing data (handling missing values, outliers, inconsistencies).
• Transforming data into a suitable format for analysis.
• Data Analysis:
• Performing exploratory data analysis (EDA) to identify patterns and trends.
• Applying statistical techniques and machine learning algorithms.
• Creating data visualizations (charts, graphs) to communicate findings.
• Model Development and Evaluation:
• Assisting in the development and training of machine learning models.
• Evaluating model performance using appropriate metrics.
• Contributing to model tuning and optimization.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a detail-oriented and organized Accounts Receivable Specialist to join our finance team. The Accounts Receivable Specialist will be responsible for managing the company's receivables, ensuring timely and accurate invoicing, and collaborating with other departments to resolve any discrepancies. The ideal candidate will have strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate effectively with both internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

1. Invoicing:

• Generate and issue accurate and timely customer invoices.
• Ensure all relevant information is included on invoices, such as terms of payment, purchase order numbers, and any special billing requirements.

1. Payment Processing:

• Process customer payments and apply them to the appropriate accounts.
• Reconcile discrepancies in payments and work with customers to resolve issues.

1. Collections:

• Monitor accounts to identify overdue payments.
• Contact customers to follow up on outstanding balances and arrange for payment.

1. Record Keeping:

• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all transactions related to accounts receivable.
• Prepare and maintain reports on accounts receivable status.

1. Customer Relations:

• Build and maintain positive relationships with customers to facilitate prompt payment.
• Address customer inquiries and resolve any billing disputes or discrepancies.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Proven experience in accounts receivable or a related financial role.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles and practices.
• Proficiency in using accounting software and Microsoft Excel.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and analytical abilities.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with ERP systems.

What you need to have:

A Technical Delivery Manager/Project Manager is required to join the team that will be delivering a large-scale business initiative.

The role is accountable for the technical delivery of a large-scale technical transformation project focusing on upgrading the network fabric of our key data centres. Delivery teams are located in various locations around the globe. 

Specific Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Technology delivery – lead the delivery across all technology teams in the workstream throughout the end to end delivery chain
• Planning - Accountable for all technology planning activities, including working closely with Workstream Lead to ensure technology plans are fully and correctly reflected in overall workstream plans and roadmaps
• Dependency management - Ensures all impacts of dependencies are addressed in the overall project plan. Effectively work across the organization to ensure all dependent teams are aligned with the project plans and schedules
• Risk and Issue Management – Ability to proactively manage risk and issues for the workstream in a timely manner and have the confidence to make decisions to mitigate or resolve when required. Work closely with workstream lead to ensure RAIDS are fully documented, mitigated and escalated as required.
• Leadership – Lead and work closely with all members of the team, including business analysts, architects, QA and development management to ensure all aspects from intake, requirements, design and testing are fit for purpose and delivered in a timely manner for planning and execution
• Team performance - Work closely with the Scrum Masters and Vendor management (where required) and QA to ensure the delivery performance of the teams throughout execution and identify opportunities to optimize to improve timeliness, throughput and quality.
• Problem solving and decision making – sound judgment at a senior management level using assertiveness and influencing skills to ensure items are discussed and decisions made and agreed in a timely manner
• Governance – Manage any workstream technology team governance and adhere to the overall programme governance to ensure all stakeholders and team members are aligned and effective in delivery
• Reporting – Ensure reporting is provided as required on a regular basis against roadmap, plans and any performance KPI’s and OKR’s for your teams
• Communication - Working closely and collaboratively with the Project management office to identify and manage all stakeholders, providing visibility and transparency
• Financial Management and Project Accounting – Providing the critical data required for the project management function to monitor and track financial health, analysing resource requirements across multiple projects or across programmes to meet strategic goals

Essential Skills/Experience Required:

• Experience in running scaled agile teams
• Previous experience of working in a large scale, Top Tier Investment Bank or for a wider Financial Services Organisation
• Experience of setting up and working on a Greenfield Programme of work
• Proven experience in delivering large-scale technical programmes in a hands-on capacity
• A software delivery background would be highly beneficial due to the technical nature of the deliverables
• Extensive stakeholder management experience up to senior level, alongside the management of external vendor relationships
• Experience of working in a complex, high-paced environment with a global team
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal

Key Stakeholders

• Workstream Lead
• PMO
• Scrum Masters/Scrum of Scrums
• Other Delivery Managers for dependencies
• Development leads
• QA Lead
• Product Owners
• Business Sponsors
• Lead BA
• Lead Solutions architects
• Service (Release to BAU)