Job Description
The Role Responsibilities
Processes
• Lead the operational process and support on system aspects of Group Corporate Planning, Budgeting Restatement, Target setting and Forecasting processes.
• Build and leverage SME expertise to drive change and support the leadership in delivering the key change agenda.
• Lead and deliver on the Outlook process and drive automation to streamline the process.
• Lead and engage on re-engineering existing process / identifying and scoping potential automation and efficiency opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership and leverage process/domain expertise to lead process reengineering and change initiatives opportunities.
• Support reporting and analysis team for Group Planning outcomes and ad-hoc senior management requests.
• Partner with Global Process Managers and leaders to design and implement Standard Global Processes across all areas of planning and track implementation effectiveness and gaps on a continued basis.
• Develop key people management and stakeholder management skills to move into People Manager / SME roles.
• Engage and influence Finance stakeholders with continuous focus on "Big Picture" and enable the decision support in line with Group FP&A strategy.
Risk Management
• Monitor operational risk across planning processes and escalate key risks to right forum.
Governance
• Ensure compliance with Group Code of Conduct and Social agenda of the organization.
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 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
Internal
• All the CFOs, Business and process leads across Countries and Group
• Various business heads of GFS
• HR, GPS, Finance, Risk and Compliance
External
• External consultants on Project implementations
• Senior members of other Finance Shared Services Centres in the industry
• Peer group companies related businesses
Our Ideal Candidate
• Chartered Accountant or MBA with 8 - 12 years of relevant finance experience in Planning activities.
• Expert process management and reengineering skill set, including experience of leading system and process change initiatives.
• Significant subject matter understanding and experience of planning, performance analysis and financial statements, within large multinational companies in the financial services sector Specific experience in running the planning processes (or equivalent) of a complex multinational banking Group.
• Substantial experience of banking, depth and breadth of knowledge in processes especially in the areas of Planning and Management accounting and related processes.
• Experience in operating within large virtual teams and relationships across a complex network of stakeholders including senior management.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Strong Senior stakeholder management experience including interfacing and influencing.
• Strong strategic mindset coupled with a thorough understanding of Planning processes in Banking Industry to be an 'agent of change'.
• A leader, a team player with the management ability and track record to secure the confidence and respect of the peers, stakeholders and the executive management team.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, multi task, lead through ambiguities, influence where candidate does not have direct authority and build on unstructured formative situations.
• Have an excellent Systems skills (preferable planning systems), communication, analytical and decision-making skills. A strong self-starter with natural intellectual curiosity.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
Processes
• Lead the operational process and support on system aspects of Group Corporate Planning, Budgeting Restatement, Target setting and Forecasting processes.
• Build and leverage SME expertise to drive change and support the leadership in delivering the key change agenda.
• Lead and deliver on the Outlook process and drive automation to streamline the process.
• Lead and engage on re-engineering existing process / identifying and scoping potential automation and efficiency opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership and leverage process/domain expertise to lead process reengineering and change initiatives opportunities.
• Support reporting and analysis team for Group Planning outcomes and ad-hoc senior management requests.
• Partner with Global Process Managers and leaders to design and implement Standard Global Processes across all areas of planning and track implementation effectiveness and gaps on a continued basis.
• Develop key people management and stakeholder management skills to move into People Manager / SME roles.
• Engage and influence Finance stakeholders with continuous focus on "Big Picture" and enable the decision support in line with Group FP&A strategy.
Risk Management
• Monitor operational risk across planning processes and escalate key risks to right forum.
Governance
• Ensure compliance with Group Code of Conduct and Social agenda of the organization.
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 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
Internal
• All the CFOs, Business and process leads across Countries and Group
• Various business heads of GFS
• HR, GPS, Finance, Risk and Compliance
External
• External consultants on Project implementations
• Senior members of other Finance Shared Services Centres in the industry
• Peer group companies related businesses
Our Ideal Candidate
• Chartered Accountant or MBA with 8 - 12 years of relevant finance experience in Planning activities.
• Expert process management and reengineering skill set, including experience of leading system and process change initiatives.
• Significant subject matter understanding and experience of planning, performance analysis and financial statements, within large multinational companies in the financial services sector Specific experience in running the planning processes (or equivalent) of a complex multinational banking Group.
• Substantial experience of banking, depth and breadth of knowledge in processes especially in the areas of Planning and Management accounting and related processes.
• Experience in operating within large virtual teams and relationships across a complex network of stakeholders including senior management.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Strong Senior stakeholder management experience including interfacing and influencing.
• Strong strategic mindset coupled with a thorough understanding of Planning processes in Banking Industry to be an 'agent of change'.
• A leader, a team player with the management ability and track record to secure the confidence and respect of the peers, stakeholders and the executive management team.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, multi task, lead through ambiguities, influence where candidate does not have direct authority and build on unstructured formative situations.
• Have an excellent Systems skills (preferable planning systems), communication, analytical and decision-making skills. A strong self-starter with natural intellectual curiosity.
About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The AVP| Planning Ops position is now open for candidates interested in the Bank Jobs sector. This role in Chennai offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Bank Jobs is a plus.
