Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

Responsible for the delivery of all outcomes to support Regional / Country performance requirements. Provide value add through comprehensive understanding of financials, business context and analysis to support their decision making and strategic development.

Strategy

Build and operate a world class performance management team for an ever-evolving CCIB segment delivering forward looking insights and strong process management.

Business

• To provide support and work in close partnership with the Region / Country business heads, coverage team and finance stakeholders for business performance monitoring and analysis.
• Provide timely and accurate financial information / MIS to enable strategic decision making.
• Analyse business performance (management and financial and provide descriptive analytics and highlight risks and opportunities and drive actions to ensure committed financial outcome.
• Provide insights on Costs which enables to country to meet cost targets and positive JAWs.
• Understand the differences in different ledger / performance views of Local reporting, Group Reporting and Management reporting and articulate the variances and performances.
• Timely monitor and review of financials and close coordination with wider finance teams to ensure correct monthly financials are reported and variances are fully explainable.
• Prepare insightful performance review packs to support performance reviews and executive meetings such as GPR, CMT, Product / Segment QPRs, etc.
• Setup financial models for providing accurate forecasting of Outlook and Corporate plan for the country and work with region and group for alignment and submission.
• Support Balance Sheet, capital and liquidity requirements through an understanding of its impact on consolidated business performance and support active balance sheet management for strategic planning.
• Provide ADHOC analysis / insights on Region / Country and Business performance.

Processes

• Ensure robust financial processes in place to report revenue, cost and balance sheet for Region / Country in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensure compliance with Group / IFRS accounting principles and practices, Financial Control policy, and other regulatory accounting guidelines.
• Drive transformation of process to be simpler, automated and has robust controls in place.
• Focus on continuous process improvement to ensure efficient and robust process in place.

People and Talent

• Collaborate with Group / Regional / Country Finance colleagues in providing quality management information and review of business plans and strategies.
• Learn and upskill to stay on top of the changing role of Finance in the industry.
• Contribute to any ad-hoc finance related projects, including providing support to Finance Transformation initiatives as well as simplification of bank process.

Risk Management

• Ensure risk management and controls are embedded in our process.

Governance

• Ensure compliance to all policy in place.

Key Stakeholders

• CCIB Regional and Country Finance Leadership, CCIB Region / Country Product and Segment Heads, Regional and Group Finance teams, Country Regional and Group Business Performance Teams

Other Responsibilities

As a senior member of the CCIB finance team and Plan to Perform extended leadership, drive A3 improvement initiatives across the finance team.

• Contribute to people initiatives across Global finance services / Plan to Perform GPO.
• Act as a though leader to challenge status quo and drive change.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Qualified CA / CMA / CPA or MBA from a premium institute

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong knowledge of Financial Planning and Management Reporting of Global Organisation
• Strong knowledge of the finance systems on any global tech platforms ( Oracle, SAP)
• Implementation experience with the data and digital MI technologies (Tableau, Dataiku)

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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 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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