Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to drive and deliver on performance management reporting and analytics though high quality MI and stakeholder engagement for the Region.
• The role involves deep dive analytics to support and drive the business.
• 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 and Forecasting, Management reporting, Financial Analysis, Variance Analysis, Headcount reporting, Efficiency tracking, Accounting and Closing and other FP&A activities.
• Work closely with Accounting, Standard Reporting, and Planning and 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.
• Driving continuous process improvement, efficiency and resolving core business issues 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.

Regulatory and 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• GFS counterparts
• Functional Coordinators
• Regional, Country and Business Finance teams
• Service Delivery
• BAU, query handling and follow-ups
• For other analysis

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 and 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 are important.
• Initiative and proactive thinking.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Financial Planning and Analysis
• PSGL, MRC, SAP, HP, HPCM
• MS Office (Excel, Power point)

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 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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