Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

• This role is to enable run the E2E scope of Property Finance activities pertaining to Group and region in coordination with P2P Property Team and Property Finance, including but not limited to accounting operations, financial control, reporting, substantiation and analytical support.
• Partner with various GFS workstreams to drive and implement Change Agenda for Property Finance activities including process simplifications, quality improvements, data analytics and new systems (SAP etc).
• Build robust process and deliver with accuracy

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Review and Track monthly Property projects WIP, Accruals and its accurate reporting, Identify anomalies and ensure resolutions. Highlight to Regional Leads in P2P and Group Finance on the outcome and suggestion to provide resolution.
• Monthly pulling and monitoring of Property cost and liaise with countries to understand the gaps if any
• Ensure project accounting / Accruals / WIP balances are monitored and reported accurately
• Support and provide assistance for standardisation & optimisation within the broader finance organisation.

Business

• Provide timely, accurate, complete, relevant, and value-added information
• Proactively flag risk/opportunities on financial performance to help business take mitigating actions to achieve targets with Regional Property Leads
• Ensure Coordination with property, regional and country finance to ensure Fast close
• Provide and pull relevant data for preparation of presentations and other communications for key internal stakeholders
• Raise DQ issues if any to the relevant teams
• Build strong relationships with key delivery partners and ensure efficiencies and synergies are realised across the remit of areas impacted by the delivery.

Processes

• Partner with globally accountable process owners driving standardisation as part Centralization of process in hub.
• Coordinate for Monthly accrual & pre-payment journal postings
• Act as a trusted advisor to Businesses / Functions regarding implementing the Change Management, Standards related to change delivery and procedures.
• Good governance and building / tracking mechanisms for digital Scorecard Metrics for effective / efficient process control improvements, enhancements and simplifications. where appropriate use of A3 to bring process efficiency and reduce the reliance on manual processes
• Establishment of Transition and Accelerate Governance process for the function by scorecard metrics for the function
• Quarterly balance sheet substantiation process for Property accounts.
• Monthly connect with relevant teams to plan ahead for the monthly deliverables
• Enhance the usage of Service management tools to track and achieve deadlines
• Ad hoc query and request management
• Bring Process Transparency through ARIS Map
• Manage and deliver ad hoc work

People & Talent

• Establish a trusted advisor relationship with the Property, Functions Finance and teams getting impacted with Property Costs, Capitalisation and Recharges.

Risk Management

• Responsible for ensuring adequate operational risk controls are in place within all relevant processes, in line with Group Finance / Country Policies and procedures and UK Sox requirements

Governance

• Coordinate multiple deadlines, work cohesively with other teams, and respond quickly to management requests.
• Adhere to bank / regulatory policies governing data quality and controls.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• CFO Property/ Regional Property Leads/ Business or Segment CFO/ Heads
• Property Finance Team.
• Property Management Team.
• Finance Management Team, Regional/Country/Business/Functions CFOs.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good, Group\xe2\x80\x99s Strategy, Brand and Values
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, R2R, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Our Ideal Candidate

• Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: Master\xe2\x80\x99s Degree Holder / Professionally Qualified with Finance & Accounting as major skill or competency
• 10+ years of Relevant finance experience in Accounting and Control and process re-engineering
• Effective communication and excel Skills
• Relationship and stakeholder management skills

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Microsoft
• PSGL / SAP
• IFRS Standards

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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