Senior Manager, HK WRB

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Job Summary

• Define key responsibilities to reflect the duties and responsibilities of this role.
• Manager WRB, Country Finance role

Business Support

• Partner with senior leaders to drive and deliver on WRB performance management reporting and analytics and stakeholder engagement
• Partner with Analytical reviews of month end numbers vs budget & MoM.
• Provide MI support and financial information to enable strategic decision making for WRB.
• Prepare product and segment packs/ reports.
• Understanding the financial processes end to end and quick in understanding the ad hoc requirements with ensuring quality and timelines of the output.

Month/ Quarter end reporting

• Provide support on month end close and GL substantiation.
• Review ME movements

Performance Management

• Responsible for preparation of monthly analysis report, revenue variance analysis, expense report including property cost details, group cost allocations, analytics on cost movement across various account lines and variances to budget, forecast., Monthly Recharges
• Responsible for preparation, review, and consolidation of Management Packs for WRB MT
• Support any other adhoc analysis required.

Corporate Plan/ Forecast

• Provide coordination and support during forecasting, budgeting cycle for Country WRB.
• Support on submission template preparation.

Financial Controls

• Provide coordination and support during forecasting, budgeting cycle for Country WRB.
• Support on submission template preparation.

Processes

• Drive continuous improvements, identifying opportunities to consolidate, automate, and gain process efficiencies
• Manage overall design and outcome of the end-to-end process and owns the process output performance in terms of client service, financial performance and risk where appointed as Process Owners.
• To implement appropriate internal controls and operating risk management/monitoring processes and procedures within the unit for ensuring integrity of Performance and Expense reporting and compliance with related group policies/standards.

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.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• WRB Country MT
• Country Performance management
• WRB Business Finance (WRB)
• WRB Country Finance
• Group WRB Finance Team
• Segment/ Product Heads

Other Responsibilities

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

Skills And Experience

• Qualified accountant or equivalent with significant experience in a variety of commercial and controller ship Finance roles in complex organizations
• Good communication skills to coordinate with Countries and Group FP&A
• Strong business partner skill and insightful performance management

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant or MBA with 10+ years of relevant finance experience in FP&A.
• A mature finance profession with relevant experience in Banking industry.
• Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management.
• Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Solid people and project management skills.
• Relationship and stakeholder management skills are important.
• A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks with tight deadlines
• Ability to assess and guide stakeholders - wearing the "CFO/CEO" lens
• Should be a resilient, self-starter with well-developed communication & inter-personal skills

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.