Role Responsibilities

Job Purpose

Own and be responsible for the delivery of all outcomes to support performance management requirements of Transaction Banking business. Help establish a high performing team who will deliver core outcomes. Provide value add through comprehensive understanding of financials, business context and analysis to support their decision making and strategic development.

Business Support
• Provide timely and accurate financial information / MIS to enable strategic decision making. This would cover a wide range of areas including pipeline and sales performance, volume trend analysis, operations productivity, pricing and margin sensitivity and competitor benchmarking.
• Engage in regular deep dives across P&L and balance sheet topics, using advanced analytical techniques and tools, to identify risks and opportunities and address strategic business challenges.
• Drive clear, concise and transparent reporting of TB performance for all key management forums including Monthly Business Review, Weekly Financial reviews and all ad-hoc reviews.
• Design and maintain strategic scalable performance information management infrastructure to deliver quality MIS and Business analytics for the TB Business globally.
• Support finance transformation initiatives to drive reports simplification, standardization, finance efficiencies and productivity.
• Drive and create opportunities for business patterning with transaction Banking business heads.
• Responsible for creating clear narratives for both internal as well as external consumptions.

Team Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness
• Ensure the provision for ongoing training and development of people and holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled, qualified for their roles. Also create backups and ensure that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Actively drive and support the finance activities relating to business realignment and restructures including change management and restatement of financial and management reporting, corporate plans, reporting structures, and financial systems.
• Ensuring that the team is taken up the operating model. Coach, inspire and motivate the team ensuring that each individual achieves their potential and that the team delivers its collective agenda.
• Leading and driving a global process agenda that is focussed on rationalisation and simplification.

Key Stakeholders
• TB CFO and Product CFO's
• TB Business Heads.
• Group finance team.

Contributes To
• Influences and challenges issues, providing judgement and assessment of impact of proposed actions / activities on performance and strategy.
• Uphold the control and compliance culture in the bank.
• Quality of decision making within the business.

Our Ideal Candidate
• Chartered Accountant or MBA with 15 years of relevant finance experience in FP&A.
• A mature finance profession with relevant experience in financial services industry.
• Strong ability to understand financial statements and its drivers and synthesize them into meaningful analyses as required. Develop analysis and interpretations as required to facilitate management decision making.
• 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.
• 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.
• High degree of skill and experience in authoring senior management presentations, documents and other performance based narrative communications.
• Ability to understand and connect business drivers and rationale for and application of those relevant to the Performance management process.
• Strong Analytical and Strategic mindset, coupled with a thorough understanding of business performance management outcomes.
• Significant experience of working with senior management team and of interfacing with and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Ability to culturally orient in diverse and international team environment and lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams.
• A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner.
• Experienced in corporate banking booking models, accounting treatments, primarily for Cash and Trade.
• Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management.
• Should have worked in a business finance function with strong FP&A background.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Financial Planning and Analysis
• MS Application (excel, PowerPoint)
• Stakeholder Management
• PSGL, SAP

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 , together with our brand promise, to be are achieved by how we each live our . 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