Manager - Client Tax

Job ID: 39354

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 8 Sept 2025

Key Responsibilities

Business

• Work with the Project/Reporting lead in delivering the various CTIR/CRS commitments on the agreed timelines.
• Focus on the areas assigned for delivery, learn the activities and disseminate the knowledge on existing as well as ongoing changes happening in the FATCA/CRS processes in an organized manner to the rest of the team members and bring them up to speed to perform the activities.
• To gain detailed understanding of the FATCA/CRS reporting process and become an SME.
• To meet the timelines of all FATCA/CRS Deliverables without any deviation as there is a regulatory expectation in meeting the timelines by planning the activities/deliverables and assign them to the team accordingly.
• Provide the necessary updates to stakeholders/Project working groups on a regular basis.
• Engage in a positive and pro-active stakeholder management
• Interact with Key Project team members/stakeholders to understand Regulatory Impact / Changes
• Work with the project team in getting all the required documentation work completed.
• Keep operating instructions' documents up to date.
• Ongoing tracking / monitoring of data quality exceptions identified during the reporting process.
• Provide support to project deliverables on the on-going changes and automation initiatives as necessary.

Processes

• Identify opportunities to remove process waste, engage in standardisation of various reporting packs and encourage, drive and support automation initiatives thereby reduce / remove the non-value adds in the process.
• Establish robust control and governance on the process
• Drive productivity and achieve cost efficiencies through continuous improvement initiatives.
• Drive a culture to capture appropriate metrics for tracking actual hours/ standard hours/ errors etc
• Ensure detailed documentation and it is up to date for all processes

People & Talent

Manage, coach, develop and engage a team of high performing individuals.

Governance

Targets and Budgets

• Ownership of the assigned budget and management of across the reporting team
• Ensure all queries for submitted reports are reverted within timelines.

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)

Qualifications

• Degree qualified with a preference in a Business, Finance, Accountancy, Law or Taxation from a reputed institution with 8+ years' experience.
• Strong process & data analysis skills, ability to prioritise and manage work to defined time lines / budgets;
• Proven ability to work within a team environment and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders;
• Confident and capable user of Micro Soft applications like Excel, Word, MPP. SQL knowledge is preferable.
• Ability to think laterally and critically, challenge status-quo and demonstrate innovative thinking;
• Good working knowledge of international banking products, systems and/or processes including a previous work experience in any data warehouse infrastructure is highly preferable;
• Previous experience of regulatory reporting project would be an advantage
• English - Good written and verbal communication skills

Skills and Experience

• Indirect tax Knowledge
• Data Skills
• Product implementation
• Stakeholder Interaction
• Analytical 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.