Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Overall responsible for Group External and GCFO reporting, reporting & analysis - \xe2\x80\x9cExplain Why\xe2\x80\x9d, Influencer and Stakeholder Management.

Responsibilities*

Strategy*Monthly performance updates, including analysis and commentary

• Prepare high-level insight to senior stakeholders on monthly P&L position
• Capture key drivers for actuals vs. budget and YoY variances
• Liaise with the Business Finance teams to ensure accuracy and understanding performance drivers
• Support and drive further the digitisation agenda, including streamlining reporting whilst ensuring key stakeholder requirements are covered

Business*

Deliver quarter end analysis including strategic KPI\xe2\x80\x99s requiring business input

• Ensure the KPIs are aligned to the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s strategic priorities during the annual rollover process
• Work with Investor Relations to ensure key KPIs have been captured and ensure regular reviews are performed throughout the year
• Engage with the Business for quarterly updates on strategic KPIs, leveraging inputs received across other deliverables/areas within Group FP&A Team; review and challenge submissions for clear justification
• Ensure the key quarterly messaging/themes have been fully supported and captured in the analysis pack
• Manage adhoc analysis requests

Processes*

Quarter end reporting, engaging with Investor Relations and Regional/Segment CFOs

• Prepare quarterly P&L messaging for the Regions/Segments, ensuring key story has been captured to provide meaningful insight to audience
• Engage with Business to ensure accuracy and understand business performance drivers
• Ensure messaging is suitable for external audience

Full year outlook used for market guidance by the Investor Relations and Group CFO

• Engage with Group Planning during the Target Setting and Corporate Plan cycles
• Review and challenge business submissions to drive a meaningful Group picture
• Ensure process is dynamic to allow for constant updates to full year outlook throughout the year and Target Setting/Corporate Plan cycles
• Continuously improve the process/file-structures, engaging with the India team, to ensure sufficient controls are in place

Governance *

Responding to Auditor queries

• Ensure information provided is accurate and precise, and responses are handled a timely manner

Regulatory & Business Conduct *

Display exemplary conduct and live by the .

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.

Key stakeholders*

All the CFOs, Business and process leads across Countries & Group.

Various business heads of GFS.

HR, GPS, Finance, Risk and Compliance

External consultants on Project implementations

QUALIFICATIONS*

TRAINING, LICENSES, MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONS

Chartered Accountant or MBA with 12-15 years of relevant finance experience preferred

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES AND PROFICIENCY LEVELS*

Technical Competency Name: Proficiency Levels

• Effective, confident and persuasive Communicator \xe2\x80\x93 Verbally, written and with powerpoint

• Ability to work in a matrix environment and to be able to respond positively Advanced

• Strong Analytical and Strategic mindset coupled with a thorough understanding of Planning processes in Banking Industry Expert

• Ability to effectively connect and communicate with all levels of the organisation (from senior Finance leadership to process practitioners and to adapt communication style appropriately)

Expert

• A mindset of change and continuous Process Optimisation

Advanced

• Ability to quickly understand and connect with Operations team to drive the design and build structured processes

Advanced

• Able to quickly establish credibility when representing the Group, presenting a positive, persuasive, and professional presence and have an excellent communication, analytical and decision-making skills Expert

• Ability to culturally orient in diverse & international team environment and lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams Advanced

• Ability to work effectively under pressure, multi-task, lead through ambiguities, influence where he/she does not have direct authority & build on unstructured formative situations

Advanced

• Able to work in a matrix organisation and being able to manage several leaders (and occasionally ambiguous situations)

Advanced

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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