Spl'st, Financial

**Key Responsibilities**

**Business**
- Building a strong functional and business knowledge in the teams.

**Processes**
- Maintain Financial reporting integrity and review all data included in the financial reports for accuracy and completeness
- Prepare/maintain supporting documentation for financial statements and related footnotes and maintain standard list of accounting and reporting reviews for pre-quarter close
- Maintain list of business and accounting events prior to balance sheet date for support during business review of IFRS schedules
- Conduct reviews on critical processes such as head office expenses, cross-border recharges, hedge accounting, derivatives and related processes.
- Perform trial balance and general ledger reviews to confirm appropriate accounting and statement in books based on the above lists
- Engage with Data Quality and Assurance team for data reviews and confirmation on posting journals for appropriate rectification and adjustments to ledger data
- Engage with IFRS reporting team to ensure that reporting actions based on past-quarters’ group queries have been completed and do not recur
- Perform quarterly analysis of movements in balances, variance and identify business reasons
- Working closely with stakeholders across Country finance, Business finance and Group Finance teams and manage expectations.
- Complying with all governance requirements - Process metrics review, Service review calls, BCP.
- Building a strong functional and business knowledge in the teams.
- Engage and collaborate with Country and Group teams for process, knowledge and change management
- Managing Quarterly & Annual Group queries from Group Finance, Product control, Treasury & Tax teams
- Contribute effectively as GBS and GFS Extended Leadership Team for any initiatives as necessary
- Challenging the current practices & procedures and help developing and implementing effective solutions

**Governance**
- Complying with all governance requirements - Process metrics review, Service review calls, BCP.

**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.
- Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key stakeholders**
- SC UK and Middle East Country Finance

**Skills and Experience**
- Financial Reporting
- Excel Functions

**Qualifications**
- Qualified Accountant (CA, CPA or CIMA (UK)) - Freshers
- Post Graduate - 4 years of relevant work experience in a Financial Reporting role preferably in a Financial services industry with specific experience in performing analytical reviews of legal entity/statutory reporting (schedules and data) with business in focus
- Good understanding of Financial Accounting standards (IAS and IFRS) Demonstrates ability to respond to client requirement

**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 week