Job Description

Roles and Responsibility
Business Support

• Partner with Asia & Korea FP&A Team to drive and manage performance for overall Asia & Korea
• Provide timely & accurate financial information / MIS to enable strategic decision making
• Provide coordination and support during Outlook, forecasting, budgeting, and monthly reporting cycles for Asia & Korea in co-operation with FP&A team and Regional / Country finance functions
• Analyse business performance (management and financial), review highlight risks and opportunities and drive actions to ensure committed financial outcome.
• Drive effective cost management through a rigorous cost control and investment management process
• Ensure support to business stakeholders on regular and ad-hoc management meetings (e.g., Country EXCO, MBR and Board meeting etc)
• Support with Aspire project related requirement for Asia & Korea.

Report Generation

• Data preparation for financial for PL and balance sheet
• Cost & Headcount reporting
• Actual / Forecast output reports
• ASIA Consolidation reporting
• Improve the current reporting
• Any specific country level reports

Analysis

• Descriptive type analysis including - variance analysis, margin analysis, and Cost analysis
• Support on-shore team in drafting key financial commentaries

Month - End Closing and Financial Controls

• Support with Manual entries on accruals, reclassifications, ad-hoc adjustments, and account substantiation.
• Support with Regional recharges postings
• Ensure robust financial processes in place to report revenue, cost and balance sheet in an accurate and timely manner
• Ensure compliance with Group / IFRS accounting principles and practices, Financial Control policy, and other regulatory accounting guidelines
• Influences and challenges issues, providing judgement and assessment of impact of proposed actions / activities on performance and strategy
• Uphold the control and compliance culture in the bank

Our Ideal Candidate

• Chartered Accountant or MBA with 10+ years of relevant finance experience in FP&A.
• Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management.
• Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Solid people and project management skills.
• Leadership skills and ability to influence others in decision making.
• Relationship and stakeholder management skills is important.
• Initiative and proactive thinking

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Qualified accountant or equivalent with significant experience in a variety of commercial and controller ship Finance roles in complex organizations
• Good communication skills to coordinate with Countries and Group FP&A
• Strong business partner skill and insightful performance management

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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