Manager - Transfer Pricing

Job ID: 39361

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 8 Sept 2025

Job Summary

The role requires very strong change management experience along with a background in Core Finance function. Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with senior leaders within Finance.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Ensure clarity of objectives agreed with the LM and are broken down to tasks with regular updates to the LM.
• Managing the assigned tasks professionally and efficiently.
• Ensuring compliance of regulations, policies and requirements.
• Contributing to the effectiveness of the team by utilizing interpersonal skills to work with members effectively.
• Gain cross functional knowledge & System Training to uplift the skills especially in the assigned domains.
• Develop and apply testing processes. Create detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases. Co-ordination of Test data/Environment with upstream/downstream teams.
• Ensure detailed project transition plan to be considered in different aspects like End User Training, Resource Considerations & Training Materials.
• Responsible for managing deliverables throughout the project lifecycle collaborating with various project/program teams, stakeholders; finance stakeholders across geographies, process and technology teams.
• Evidence of strong Project Management skills, enabling the delivery of multiple diverse data initiatives from inception to delivery
• Excellent business and technical process design and execution skills, enabling the effective execution of a change
• Responsibility for prioritisation and management of critical path delivery items
• Design the target state solution and target state processes
• Drive the establishment of a target operating model and internal capability to support and drive ongoing change / enhancement initiatives
• Ensure strong engagement with senior leaders and stakeholders across Finance.
• Responsible for risk and issue resolution

Business

• The role requires very strong change management experience along with a background Core Finance function.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with senior leaders within Finance

Processes

• Require sound operational knowledge on HPCM & PaPM / Oracle & SAP in automation platform
• Should have experience of working in at least 6 to 7 finance and banking projects
• Should have reasonable accounting and tax knowledge
• Should have expert excel skills
• Should have good analytical skills and able to work quickly on huge data
• Good/ sound communication skills required to represent business updates relating to the enhancement projects to stake holders/ project owners
• To understand the business requirements from BAU and Project team and convey the same to development team
• Should be able to discuss the BAU requirements with the development team and PSS team
• To perform in-depth manual testing UAT / UVT on the enhancements and BAU changes built by the development team / PSS
• Should be able to provide clear feedback on the testing results to project owners & business teams
• Should have skills to work on urgency facing tough challenges
• Build partnership and work collaboratively with Tech team and Project team to meet shared objectives
• Stepping up to address difficult issues and guide what needs to be done
• Should be able to accept new requirements and opportunities during the transition phase

People & Talent

• Build effective communication channels with wider senior finance leadership.
• Should build strong relationship with Project and Tech team members to meet the required goals
• Strong communication skills to strategize, facilitate & improve efficiency in delivering changes in a complex environment with internal stakeholders and external stakeholders
• Build strong relationships with key delivery partners, and ensure efficiencies and synergies are realised across programmes.
• High quality written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to focus on multiple initiatives and subjects at the same time

Risk Management

• Ensure detailed documentation is maintained on the Business Requirement & Functional Specifications. Making sure we provide best solution which is most effective from User, Cost and Risk Perspective.

Governance

• Ensure effective governance and project management standards are applied across all delivery responsibilities

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.
• 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.]
• 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

• Group Transfer Pricing Team
• GFS Tax Team
• Change teams
• SAP Development Team

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in GBS India; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [List all responsibilities associated with the role]

Qualifications

• Qualified Chartered Accountant / Cost Accountant with minimum 7 years of post-qualification experience in Tax and Transfer Pricing
• University degree – Masters / MBA preferable in Finance or Accounting with minimum 10 years of post-qualification experience in International Tax and Transfer Pricing
• People having work experience in banking/multinational companies / Big 4s are preferred.
• Good understanding of general tax principles / accounting treatment for taxes/ Corporate Tax structure/ TP documentation preferably from Big 4s
• High level of computer literacy and understanding of business computing environments.
• Strong analytical skill and an eye for detail and ability to face challenges in the working environment
• Experience in engaging with senior business stakeholders
• Strong background in problem solving, with demonstrable analytical skills
• Experience in one or more of the following areas desired: Cost allocation, financial planning, financial / management reporting, SAP PaPM
• Should have expert excel skills
• Should have good analytical skills and able to work quickly on huge data
• Good/ sound communication skills required to represent business updates relating to the enhancement projects to stake holders/ project owners
• Build partnership and work collaboratively with Tech team and Project team to meet shared objectives
• Responsible for managing deliverables throughout the project lifecycle collaborating with various project/program teams, stakeholders; finance stakeholders across geographies, process and technology teams

Skills and Experience

• Financial Analysis
• Operational Transfer Pricing
• Accounting
• MS Office

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.