Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• Understand and Build Legal Entity Controller model.
• Participate in Change forums and provide effective input to design and implementation.
• Design operating model for controller function to drive consistency and efficiencies.
• Lead location opportunity review and work with key stakeholders to drive cost optimisation.
• Review to ensure the Integrity, accuracy, and completeness of the GL, detect inconsistencies and review variances and rectify any accounting error prior to book close window.
• Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.

Business

• Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Legal Entity operates.

Processes

• To work closely with the R2R controllers Unit Head in managing the Financial Controls and Risk function.
• To ensure financial control policies and compliance monitoring measures are in place and being adhered to and to ensure a robust financial control environment in the Bank.
• Embed the Controllership with Reporting model ensuring the end client is kept at the centre of the model ensuring it serves the intended purpose efficiently and effectively.
• Identify and present Financial and Operational Risk to the Senior Managements (CFO, Cluster CFO and Reg CFO, etc) through various Risk FORUMs like FORTM, ERC, CORC, SRM, etc.
• To support CFO declaration / reduction of Group Queries.

People and Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• 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.

Risk Management

The ability to interpret the Group\xe2\x80\x99s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance

• Strengthen the Control Governance framework for Financial Control.
• Monitor and ensure that appropriate Change governance is followed across all transformation initiatives. Represent the function at the governance forums in place for tracking change initiatives and influence decisions in respect of the change backlog, prioritisation, choice of technology tools and the operating model.

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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles.

Key Stakeholders

• Country Finance, GFS
• Business CFOs and Business Finance teams
• Product Control and FM Operations
• Internal and External Audit
• Change and Technology teams

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

• Qualified Chartered Accountant / MBA Finance / CFA.
• Minimum 15 years of work experience in Banking Finance and Audit.
• Should have strong experience in implementation of strategic changes and strong Business Analytic skills.
• Should have strong knowledge and understanding of data management, data quality and its linkage in driving business performance management.
• Good eye for detail and with a strong focus on controls and compliance to policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated experience of influencing decisions at senior leadership level.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to work with cross cultural teams.
• Experience of working in a global organisation in a matrix environment.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Process Excellence
• IFRS and Finance Control Technical
• People management
• Stakeholder Management
• Change Management and GL design
• Effective communication

\xc2\xadAbout 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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