Job Description
Specialist - Accounting & Controls-()
Job
:Finance
Primary Location
:Asia-India-Chennai
Schedule
:Full-time
Employee Status
:Permanent
Posting Date
:20/Mar/2026, 11:20:54 PM
Unposting Date
:Ongoing
Roles and Responsibility
Strategy
• Focus on Process Efficiency and align to the Record to Close (R2R) processes
• Ability to connect to the big picture
• Ensure to achieve efficiency in processes, quality and cost.
Business
• Effective stakeholder management for respective processes across geographies
Processes
• Ensuring that continuous efficiency improvement in R2R activities and an established process exists to constantly identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Bring Process Transparency
People and Talent
• Nurture Team bonding and team engagement
Risk Management
• Highlight delays & related impact considering inter dependencies
• Provide insights and brainstorm the mitigation measures with respective function leads
Governance
• Monitor & track progress of all activities scheduled/completed/ongoing during the close period through out
• Publish the RAG status for all critical activities across the close cycle
• Drive initiatives towards Fast Closure of books
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 the [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Country HR Service Delivery
• GFS teams like P 2 P, IM, R2R and other support functions.
• Financial Controllers or Head of Finance in the country
• Group Finance Operational Risk.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Preferably Chartered accountant or Commerce Graduate with good Understanding of General accounting, Financial and accounting control policies as per Industry Standard
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• MS Excel
• Trust Financials
• SAP
• People soft GL
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 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
Job
:Finance
Primary Location
:Asia-India-Chennai
Schedule
:Full-time
Employee Status
:Permanent
Posting Date
:20/Mar/2026, 11:20:54 PM
Unposting Date
:Ongoing
Roles and Responsibility
Strategy
• Focus on Process Efficiency and align to the Record to Close (R2R) processes
• Ability to connect to the big picture
• Ensure to achieve efficiency in processes, quality and cost.
Business
• Effective stakeholder management for respective processes across geographies
Processes
• Ensuring that continuous efficiency improvement in R2R activities and an established process exists to constantly identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Bring Process Transparency
People and Talent
• Nurture Team bonding and team engagement
Risk Management
• Highlight delays & related impact considering inter dependencies
• Provide insights and brainstorm the mitigation measures with respective function leads
Governance
• Monitor & track progress of all activities scheduled/completed/ongoing during the close period through out
• Publish the RAG status for all critical activities across the close cycle
• Drive initiatives towards Fast Closure of books
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 the [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Country HR Service Delivery
• GFS teams like P 2 P, IM, R2R and other support functions.
• Financial Controllers or Head of Finance in the country
• Group Finance Operational Risk.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Preferably Chartered accountant or Commerce Graduate with good Understanding of General accounting, Financial and accounting control policies as per Industry Standard
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• MS Excel
• Trust Financials
• SAP
• People soft GL
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 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 Specialist | Accounting Controls position is now open for candidates interested in the Accountant 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 Accountant Jobs is a plus.
