Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

The P2P Lead for Singapore CPBB Performance management will partner with the Singapore Business Finance team and business partners to provide insight, analysis, and strategic decision support. This role seeks to influence and help drive the performance of the business while ensuring service delivery of standard financial information and KPIs.

• This role is responsible for delivering a wide range of performance analysis for SCB & CPBB management, supporting the Planning progress, tracking progress against plans, highlighting risks and opportunities, and improving processes and effectiveness of the function.
• The role requires strong self-starting and hands-on skills, and willingness to work with limited direct supervision under dynamic situation. There will be a significant amount of interaction with Business heads, Country and Business CFO teams, Group CPBB and FP&A teams in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
• The successful candidate will develop a strong understanding of Segment's performance, key dynamics, drivers, and trends impacting the business, as well as the opportunity to influence strategic decision making, especially on the digital front with our business partners. The role suits an individual with strong analytical, problem solving & change management skills with experience of driving change within large multinational companies, as well as leadership and managerial skills. Critical to the role is the ability to consolidate and effectively story tell the underlying financial performance across key business verticals
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the Financial and Management information for Singapore CPBB business and provide value added financial information and analysis to support their decision making and strategic development.
• Overall CPBB performance management including monthly performance review and analysis, Expense management, Products performance.
• Responsible for Month end close, GL substantiation, MI Support to Country Management team, review and challenge of cost allocations, budgeting, and forecasting activity.

Business Finance Support (CPBB)

• Provide timely & accurate financial information / MIS to enable strategic decision making
• Provide coordination and support during forecasting, budgeting and monthly reporting cycles for Singapore CPBB in co-operation with business heads and Regional / Country finance functions
• Analyze business performance (management and financial), review highlight risks and opportunities and drive actions to ensure committed financial outcome
• Responsible for preparation, review, and consolidation of Management Packs like CMT, MBR, other adhoc group packs
• Provide market intelligence on key competitors' performance and highlight any changes in the competitive landscape
• Constantly challenge current MI and its relevance, drive simplification, standardization and create efficiencies on a regional basis
• Supporting the CEO and CFO with any other adhoc analysis and project related support
• Ensure support to business stakeholders on regular and ad-hoc management meetings (e.g. CPBBMT, MBR and CMT)

Strategy & Business Planning

• Partner, coordinate and deliver 5-year annual Corporate Plan, forecast and strategy including supporting the baseline modelling, aligning targets and submissions into the Group consolidation systems

Financial Controls

• Manage overall design and outcome of the end-to-end process and owns the process output performance in terms of client service, financial performance and risk where appointed as Process Owners
• Ensure robust financial processes in place to report revenue, cost and balance sheet for CPBB in an accurate and timely manner
• Ensure compliance with Group/ IFRS accounting principles and practices, Financial Control Policy and other regulatory accounting guidelines
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of financial returns to internal and external authorities and stakeholders
• To implement appropriate internal controls and operating risk management/monitoring processes and procedures within the unit for ensuring integrity of Performance and Expense reporting and compliance with related group policies/standards

People and Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and valued behaviours. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team
• Enable 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 affective supervision in place to mitigate any risks
• Mentor and guide junior team members to provide them career development support.
• Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles
• Responsibility to review team structure / capacity plans
• 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

Key Stakeholders

Internal:

• CFO, Singapore
• Singapore Business Finance (CPBB)
• ASA Regional Finance Team
• Group Finance
• GFS Support team

External:

• Auditors
• Regulators

Other Requirements

• Quality of decision making
• Influences and challenges issues, providing judgment and assessment of impact of proposed actions / activities on performance and strategy.
• Uphold the control and compliance culture in the bank.
• Career development of finance staff - Be able to lead and mentor talent and develop a sound talent pipeline.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A mature finance profession with relevant experience in financial services industry.
• Experienced in retail banking products, booking models, accounting treatments.
• Sound understanding of international accounting standards requirements, business analysis techniques, risk management methodologies, project management techniques.
• A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks with tight deadlines
• Ability to assess and guide stakeholders - wearing the "CFO/CEO" lens
• Should be a resilient, self starter with well developed communication & inter-personal skills

Role Specific Technical Skills And Competencies

• Finance: Cost and headcount management
• MS Application (excel, PowerPoint)
• People policies and practices
• Project management skills
• Risk and Governance

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others and work collectively to build for the long term.

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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