Senior Manager

Job Description

Job Summary

This role is within the Business Performance Operations (BPO) finance function that supports the Wealth & Retail Banking (WRB) business. WRB has a footprint across the globe with an annual revenue of &>USD 7bn and serves more than 11 million clients in some of the world's fastest growing markets. The BPO finance team supports CFOs, providing financial insights on performance and tracking progress of strategic initiatives.

This role works very closely with other finance colleagues within BPO and onshore locations on Performance Management matters.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

- Execute strategic actions in collaboration with other finance, business & functional colleagues in driving business performance aligned to the Bank's Strategic Priorities
- Provide MI and financial information to enable strategic decisioning for WRB

Business

- Partner with senior finance colleagues to support WRB performance management reporting and analytics
- Support analytical reviews of financials such as comparison vs budget and monthly variances
- Prepare product and segment packs/ reports
- Understand financial reporting end to end, including quick turnaround on ad hoc requests whilst ensuring quality and timelines of the output

Processes

- Support continuous process improvement, standardization of procedures, and implementation of a robust control framework
- Work with finance colleagues to ensure co-operation and smooth operations.
- Understand the changing data requirement landscape with a forward-looking focus

Risk Management

- Operate 1st line responsibilities of process owners as outlined under Operational Risk Framework (ORF) and associated policies and procedures
- Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising and identify and manage forward looking risks.
- Through assignment of direct and indirect reports, establish and maintain an appropriate framework and procedures for monitoring, identifying, measuring, assessing, reporting, and managing compliance, regulatory, financial crime, operational and reputational risks

Governance

- Support Governance framework around Standard MI, internal controls, adherence to policy to adherence to agreed risk appetite.

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

Key stakeholders

- WRB Group Financial Planning & Analysis teams
- WRB BPO Country, Product and Segment teams
- WRB BPO Country Lead

Other Responsibilities

- Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in team,
- Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures;
- Multiple functions (double hats).

Skills And Experience

- Minimum of 8 years of experience (post qualification), preferably in the Financial Planning & Analytics area

Qualifications

- MBA, CA, CFA, ACCA

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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