The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

Capital CRR CoE is a 300+ strong team under Global Finance Operations and Transformation, focussing on SCB wide Capital reporting, country regulatory reporting, and Decision Support / Analytics Country Regulatory Reporting (CRR) involves preparation, as well as providing business support to complex daily, monthly, quarterly and annual returns to the onshore team for their submission to local regulators. Monitoring of key ratios and various adhoc queries requirements of the local regulator is also an important part of this team’s delivery.

Country regulatory reporting processes are governed by regulatory reporting policies of Standard Chartered as well as the respective country regulatory bodies.

Domain rich teams work in a collaborative environment to provide country wide reports and analysis cutting across several dimensions for both internal as well as external regulatory reporting. The function also partners with country and global project teams to support global projects for end to end data infrastructure and automation to cater the country regulatory reporting requirements.

CRR team interacts with several stakeholders on a day-to-day basis within the bank that include Business, Finance, ALM, Credit risk, various other operations team and Technology.

Strategy
• Delivery of regulatory reports (both internal and external) , adhering to SLA, operating instructions and quality requirements.
• Provide insightful analysis on variances and provide commentaries on the underlying movements. Handle queries and provide any adhoc support as may be required.
• Build review capabilities and domain expertise to be shared within team.
• Work towards continuous improvement to identify and implement opportunities to decrease process turn-around time and improve productivity.
• Proactively identify areas of efficiency in processes to deliver productivity saves. Participate and give suggestions in the finance transformation programmers thereby enabling removal of manual workarounds.

Business
• Ensure timely delivery of services relating to the Regulatory Reporting and all other internal and external reporting requirements as agreed with Country Finance Division (CFD).
• Ensure services are delivered within the SLA, working with a cohesive team to produce the Analysis and Reports in a timely and accurate manner. Key responsibilities include co-ordination of inputs, ensuring key control standards for all processes of the team, root cause identification in respect of quality issues as well as being the first level escalation point of issues / delays / erroneous inputs.
• Responsible for the preparation and analytical review of Regulatory Reports / Returns as well as Adherence to various Rules and Regulations of the Regulators.
• Responsible for the preparation of various MIS / Variance Analysis and work on the Ad hoc by gauging the requirements from stakeholders and help in GFS vide governance activities in respect of processes managed (e.g. compilation of Key Risk Indicators, Dashboard, Metrics, etc).
• The ability to work to a high degree of accuracy under pressure is important as during the reporting periods the team is required to meet tight deadlines.
• Continuously innovate with focus to improve process - enhance efficiencies and add value; ensuring quality consciousness in all aspects of the team.
• Challenge processes in order to achieve more effective processes and efficiency saves to the Organization.
• Independent and Confident, able to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks.
• Participate in the monthly dashboard call with onshore teams and highlight issues / concern.

Processes
• Ensure timely delivery of services relating to the Regulatory Reporting and all other internal and external reporting requirements as agreed with Country Finance Division (CFD).
• Ensure services are delivered within the SLA, working with a cohesive team to produce the Analysis and Reports in a timely and accurate manner. Key responsibilities include co-ordination of inputs, ensuring key control standards for all processes of the team, root cause identification in respect of quality issues as well as being the first level escalation point of issues / delays / erroneous inputs.

People and Talent
• Strong team player and has the capacity to build good working relationships with cross functional / geographical teams.
• Self motivated and able to work independently and to proactively seek guidance from others as needed.
• Work towards establishing Subject Matter Expertise in Regulatory Reporting domain.
• Support Knowledge Management initiatives through trainings to build domain capabilities required for the job.
• Associate Managers should be hands-on to undertake activities/tasks on their own as the role demands while supporting and managing other members of the team.

Risk Management
• Exercise right level of diligence, control and governance to comply with bank’s Data Quality and Reporting Standards including those that are prescribed for the Regulatory Reporting and ensure that the reports that are reviewed / generated are in line with expectation and due diligence is adhered to and ensure consistency and promptness in service delivery.
• Comply, Monitor, Validate and Report all Key Performance Indicators within the overall service delivery framework. This includes identification, measurement, monitoring and control of all thresholds set as part of Governance Framework of the bank. Any breaches of the above framework are promptly highlighted to the line manager.
• Responsible for ensuring Operations risk monitoring across all processes covered by the team and reporting key risks emanating from them to right forums.
• Responsible for Supporting Annual Regulatory Examination / Audits.
• Update DOI’s and cross train other team members so that the service provided is seamless.

Governance
• Exercise right level of diligence, control and governance to comply with bank’s Data Quality and Reporting Standards including those that are prescribed for the Regulatory Reporting and ensure that the reports that are reviewed / generated are in line with expectation and due diligence is adhered to and ensure consistency and promptness in service delivery.

Key Measures
• Delivery of standard reports as per SLA commitments and otherwise
• Quality of analysis and commentaries of the underlying reports
• Stakeholder feedback on quality of analysis and decision support
• Line manager assessment and feedback

Regulatory and 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 the team under GFS] 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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key Stakeholders
• Country Finance / GFS and GBS management

Our Ideal Candidate
• Chartered Accountant (CA) / Cost Accountant (CWA) or its equivalent, MBA (Finance), MBA (Banking), or any Finance equivalent from an institute of Repute.
• 5 years work experience in Regulatory reporting / Financial Analysis, Financial Reporting, Preparation of dashboards and metrics and relevant technical experience.
• Exhibiting influential capabilities across departments in assimilating various inputs required for accurate and complete submission of dashboards and metrics including Biz Finance, Product Control, Valuation Control, Operations, Tax Team, Technology teams, Onshore Team and various other input providers.
• Analytical skills, understanding of banking products / processes and a understanding of fundamentals of regulatory reporting, Balance Sheet Management and accounting / finance.
• Familiarity with the SCB Technology infrastructure (knowledge of TPs, products, data flow, PSGL , other finance interfaces) would be beneficial for internal candidates.
• Experience in monitoring of Month end / Quarter end processes with an ability to quickly understand the upstream and downstream impacts in the Reporting process.
• Strong communication skills in liaising with relevant stakeholders. Good business acumen and understanding of products, departments, customers, etc.
• Cross team collaboration and proactive engagement with relevant Departments and responsible parties.
• Exhibiting training capabilities across functions for usage of various regulatory reporting Teams.
• Knowledge of tools such as MSTR, Axiom would be an added advantage.
• Technical skills - Advanced MS Excel will help.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Accounting and Finance
• Technology skills with finance systems
• People Management

About Standard Chartered

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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, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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Job: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Primary Location: Asia-India-Bangalore

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Permanent

Posting Date: 17/Oct/2024, 5:54:53 AM

Unposting Date: Ongoing