Job Description

Job Summary
This role will be responsible for partnering with Product & Segment CFOs and their teams in supporting the Consumer, Private & Business Banking (CPBB) performance management especially on Personal banking and CCPL. The role will assist in designing, build and delivery of strong CPBB Finance performance framework, planning and analytics capability. The role is expected to have a detailed understanding of the CPBB business performance dynamics and the ability to drive insights and decision support to CPBB Business and Finance leads.
Key elements of the role include:
To establish and use financial management information to achieve the strategy and goals of CPBB business by:

• Delivering relevant, consistent, timely management information together with the right analytical insights to help the Management in their decision making as well as understanding the financial performance & outlook
• Driving critical finance processes for various CPBB products and segments - such as planning (budgeting, corporate plan), forecasting, scorecards, in coordination with Group, Region and country teams
• Supporting in successful delivery of performance analysis and presentations for Group MT, CPBB MT, Product & Segment MT including monthly, half-yearly/full-year reviews, as well as external events e.g. investor meetings
• Support P2P Lead in Developing & delivering digital reporting end state for CPBB Finance, partnering with the broader P2P & change community to leverage existing toolsets & expertise such as data transformation, visualisation, and predicative modelling

Strategy

• Understand the changing data requirement landscape to ensure data consumption is forward looking and adequately planned
• Continued seeking of outsourcing opportunities to the team in GFS (P2P CPBB Finance)

Key Responsibilities
Business

• Partner with senior leaders to drive and deliver on CPBB performance management reporting and analytics though high quality MI and stakeholder engagement
• Driving process improvement, efficiency and resolving core business issues in the team.
• Finance Business Partner for the business/ functions with focus on improving and manage business financials.
• Review various financial processes done by other GPO teams, ensure that the quality is not compromised and be on top of all financial activities end to end - Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting, Management reporting, Financial Analysis, Variance Analysis, Headcount reporting, Efficiency tracking, Accounting & Closing and other FP&A activities.
• Work closely with Accounting, Standard Reporting, and Planning & Control Teams.
• Understanding the financial processes end to end and quick in understanding the ad hoc requirements with ensuring quality and TAT of the output.
• Stakeholder management and escalation handling.
• Continuously reviewing all processes in order to identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Working with the other team leaders and across the Global Financial Service functions to ensure co-operation and smooth operations.
• Continuous improvement in Productivity to drive the efficiencies in the team.
• Upholding the Values of the Group and Company at all times.
• Compliance with all applicable Rules/ Regulations and Company and Group Policies.

Processes

• Ensure robust financial processes in place to report financial performance in an accurate and timely manner
• Ensure MI requirements are relevant and to improve overall efficiency and productivity
• Bring simplification, standardisation and automation in the reporting

People & Talent

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to network and build strategic partnerships with business, operations, change and technology teams

Risk Management

• Manage overall design and outcome of the end-to-end process and own the process output performance.
• Operate 1st line responsibilities of process owners as outlined under Operational Risk Framework (ORF) and associated policies and procedures

Governance

• Ensuring accuracy & timeliness of financial numbers and key performance indicators in MI packs
• Ensuring service levels are maintained in line with onshore requirements through monthly Service Review Meetings

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's 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 the [country / business unit / function/XXX [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] *
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• [Insert local regulator e.g. PRA/FCA prescribed responsibilities and Rationale for allocation].
• [Where relevant - Additionally, for subsidiaries or relevant non -subsidiaries]
• Serve as a Director of the Board of [insert name of entities]
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• CPBB Finance LT
• CFO, Personal Banking, CCPL
• Business heads within CPBB
• Global Process Owner for P2P

Other Responsibilities

• Drive simplification, standardization, digitization and widespread adoption of consistent MI and analytics for Countries - help drive efficiencies in the production and delivery of Cost MI
• 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

Skills and Experience

• Financial Planning & Analysis

Power Point Skills
SAP
Essbase, Tableau, FA, PSGL
Qualifications

• EDUCATION GRADUATE OR POST GRADUATE

TRAINING EXPERIENCE IN FP&A
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer
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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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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