Friday, July 04, 2008

Roles in a Financial Services Startup

The partners of Catalyst Consulting, a corporate training firm focused in Banking & Financial Services, seek a leadership team to own and run an exciting startup in the retail financial services space. The promoters, Anjali Mullatti (IIML '93) and H. Jaishankar (IIMB '91) are successful & respected professionals, with experience across banks (ANZ Grindlays, Bank of America, Citibank, Deutsche Bank) and IT companies (Cognizant Technology Solutions). Their firm enjoys a strong reputation and conducts training across India, UK, France and the US; with the crème de la crème of the corporate world as clients. They are also founding and managing trustees of the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust. See www.corporateacademy.com for details.

The promoters will give the team total freedom to manage and grow the firm, while bringing in all required inputs (products, funding, external directors, guidance, network). This is an ideal opportunity for a person with a strong entrepreneurial drive to head a company with few of the attendant risks.  Reply to H.Jaishankar:  jai@corporateacademy.com
 
Necessary conditions for both roles:
   1. Strong entrepreneurial drive; with the energy and excitement to build a Rs. 480 Cr business in 5 years.
   2. Based/willing to base out of Bangalore.
   3. Two year commitment.
   4. At least two references.
Please do not apply if the above conditions are not met.
Compensation will include base salary +equity.

Job Description/ Profile Requirement:
1. CEO (reports to board):  Premier school MBA; 1999-2001 batch; head of business unit experience, with revenue responsibilities. Financial Services experience preferable but not mandatory.
2. Vice President (reports to CEO): Premier school MBA; 2004-2006 batch; sales/BD experience; Financial Services experience preferable but not mandatory.