Director & Head, Capital, Treasury India Hub

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**Job Title: Director & Head, Capital, Treasury India Hub** **Location: Bangalore, India** **Perm/Contract/ Full-time/Part-time: Permanent** **On-site/Hybrid/Remote: On-site** **Who We Are** Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory services for businesses of all sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. Our Outsourcing service delivers recruitment for some of the world’s top employers, and we are currently recruiting on behalf of one of our clients, a leading global bank with a strong presence across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. They support individuals, businesses, and institutions with banking, wealth, and financial solutions. With over 150 years of heritage, they connect people and markets to drive trade and growth. Their purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through their global network and expertise. **The Role** Our client is seeking a **Director & Head, Capital, Treasury India Hub** in the **Banking** division. **Job Summary** - Treasury works closely with senior management, the businesses, Country CEOs / CFOs, and Finance to manage and promote the bank’s liquidity, capital, and balance sheet position. Treasury is laser-focussed on its vision to be “Open, progressive and trusted, working commercially with our partners” to create sustainable value by balancing the supply and demand of liquidity and capital. - Treasury Capital is responsible for the management and optimization of the firm’s capital, balance sheet, and structural liquidity, ensuring resilience, regulatory compliance, and efficient deployment of capital across the organization. Within the Global Capability Centre (GCC) model, Treasury Capital plays a pivotal role in delivering standardized, well-controlled, and scalable capital processes by partnering closely with Group Treasury, Risk, Finance, and regional stakeholders. The function supports critical regulatory and strategic initiatives, including ICWP/ICAAP, capital stress testing, recovery and resolution planning, and balance sheet optimization, while driving global consistency, process excellence, and transformation. - The Head of Treasury Capital, India will lead the establishment and growth of a strategic Treasury Capital capability within the Treasury India Hub, supporting both Group and Country Treasury objectives. The role is accountable for migrating, industrializing, and executing complex Treasury Capital processes in India, with a strong focus on standardization, control, and regulatory integrity. As a senior leader within the hub, this role will partner with global Treasury Capital leadership to deliver transformation outcomes, build deep subject-matter expertise, and position India as a global centre of excellence for Treasury Capital activities. **Key Responsibilities:** **Strategy** - Keep up to date with the Group’s business strategy and ensure the Capital frameworks are aligned to that. - Embed an analytics-led insights framework for capital management. - Develop an agile operating rhythm to adapt processes to evolving strategic themes. - Identify, prioritise and execute capital optimisation initiatives. - Support strategic balance sheet and capital decision-making through high-quality analysis. **Business** - Keep up to date with the Group’s business strategy and ensure the Capital frameworks are aligned to that. - Deliver core capital responsibilities including: Capital forecasting, budgeting and corporate plan. Sensitivity analysis, scenario modelling and stress testing. - Embed BCBS 239 principles into capital and prudential deliverables. - Own change management for capital-related regulatory and policy changes. - Lead regulatory consultation interpretation, response and advocacy. - Ensure strong outcomes in engagements with auditors and regulators. **Processes** - Lead the safe migration of large-scale capital processes from Group and Country into India. - Own end-to-end process understanding across capital activities (e.g. ICWP / ICAAP). - Decompose, standardise and streamline complex processes across jurisdictions. - Identify control gaps, weaknesses and inefficiencies, design remediation. - Drive automation, digitisation and simplification of capital processes. - Ensure migrated processes meet Group and Country regulatory, control and governance standards. - Establish scalable, resilient operating models that satisfy both Group and local requirements. **People & Talent** - Lead a diverse team of skilled and experienced people in India. - Optimise team structure to enhance collaboration both within Treasury and with key partners in Finance, CPM, Technology and Change in India and the clusters. - Attract, retain and develop talent to build a team with a diverse set of skillsets and core functionalities to create multiple approaches to problem solving. - Lead through example by building the appropriate culture and values; and set appropriate tone and expectations from the team. - Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks. - Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives. **Risk Management** - Own capital-related governance frameworks, including structural effects - Lead preparation and approvals for: ALCO / RALCO Board Risk Committee Board-level capital updates - Ensure compliance with Group policies and regulatory requirements - Conduct periodic gap analysis and attest compliance - Oversee activities related to: Profit retention Capital issuances Corporate structure changes **Governance** - Assess the effectiveness arrangements to de