Senior Manager - Reporting/Business Performance Management & Analytics - Life Insurance (5-8 yrs)

Our Client is a top life insurer based at Gurugram.

We are undertaking a search for a Sr. Manager - Business Performance Management and Analytics (BPMA)

BPMA is the centralized business intelligence and analytics team and is tasked with providing critical information and insights needed to manage the business and drive data driven decisions. BPMA team is working on building a data culture, enabling data democratization, reducing information overload and equipping everyone with information / insights needed to excel in their roles.

We are looking for a passionate leader to lead entire reporting for all distribution functions. You need to have a strong desire to lead change, drive efficiency, challenge the status quo and rationalize information overload. In this role, you will work closely with distribution leaders to understand key metrics, information needs and develop business intelligence products to cater to those needs. You will also define the strategy and roadmap for the team to accelerate our journey of becoming a data driven organization.

JOB SUMMARY

- Define the vision and roadmap for business intelligence team and champion data culture within the organization.

- Lead and enable transformation to embrace automation and providing concise & real-time insights.

- Responsible for delivery of accurate and timely reports / dashboards.

- Coach and mentor the team to continuously improve skills and capabilities.

- Lead a team of 10+ professionals, including partners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Handle non distribution reporting requirements across functions and job families for enabling strategic priorities and performance management. Responsibilities also include supporting CXO reports and dashboards

- Ensure timely & accurate delivery of reporting across functions and roles.

- Proactively identify opportunities to automate reporting requirements and build delivery capabilities on digital information assets in liaison with technology function. Integrate analytics with reporting assets.

- Drive data democratization culture by designing data assets.

- Collaborate to design and build data products for non distribution teams.

- Partner with data team to build data infrastructure necessary to facilitate efficient analysis, reporting and is relevant with the needs of the organization.

- Develop, coach and mentor team to become best in class business intelligence team.

Education: Master's degree (M.Sc., M.Tech., MBA or any quantitative field)

Experience:

- Financial services exposure is desirable and preferred.

- Python & PowerBI

- At least 7-8 years of relevant experience in working in business reporting teams.

Key competencies/skills required

- Demonstrated experience of working with senior leadership / management.

- Experience in standardizing, streamlining and automating business reporting.

- Technical proficiency in BI tech stack - PowerBI, SQL Server reporting services, SAP BO, Python etc.

- Have experience with open source BI tools.

- Well versed with data architecture / data warehousing / data lakes.

- Domain understanding of BFSI industry.

- Excellent interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills.