Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

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

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business

• Understand drivers for cost performance; drilldown & analyse the cost across actuals and plan
• Contribute & support to draw out and present the \xe2\x80\x98cost\xe2\x80\x99 story in a presentable format for senior management
• Provide support to challenge businesses, regions and functions on their cost number if not aligned to CPBB strategy
• In-depth understanding of cost reporting structure, processes, and systems
• Transform cost hierarchy into a hierarchy aligned to reporting requirements using a robust process which will cater to dynamic demand environments
• Work with upstream and downstream teams to ensure that there is transparency in the cost numbers and the process. Provide timely & accurate financial information / MIS to enable strategic decision making
• Analyse business performance (management and financial), review highlight risks and opportunities and drive actions to ensure committed financial outcome.
• Ensure support & contribute to business stakeholders on regular and ad-hoc management meetings (e.g., MBR, CPBBMT, WFR, CPBB Core, etc)
• Ensure impact on business performance outcomes is managed due to change in upstream or downstream processes and systems
• Collaborate with Group / Regional / Country Finance colleagues in providing quality management information and review of business plans and strategies
• Contribute in any ad-hoc finance related projects, including providing support to Finance Transformation initiatives as well as simplification of bank process

Processes

• Provide delivery ownership and control over all CPBB outcomes across cost processes including accounting and control.
• Ensure that MI is produced in a timely and relevant suitable to senior management
• Coordinate and support during forecasting, budgeting, and monthly reporting cycles with Regional / Country finance functions

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values, Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Chartered Accountant or MBA with extensive relevant finance experience
• Experienced in banking products, booking models, accounting treatments
• Sound understanding of cost management, cost performance reporting and understanding of cost booking and allocations practices
• A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and multi task.
• A team player and track record to secure the confidence and respect of the peers, and stakeholders.
• Strong Analytical mindset, coupled with an understanding of business performance management outcomes
• Should have worked in a business finance function with FP&A background.
• Ability to understand and connect business drivers and rationale for and application of those relevant to the Performance management process.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Excel
• Power Point
• Management Reporting Principles
• Stakeholder Management
• Cost Allocation Methodologies
• Cost Reporting
• Cost Drivers

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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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