Job Description

Job Summary

• A business manager in Financial Markets Operations with responsibility for specific global functions to support headcount, financial and business performance planning. Provide ongoing reporting and delivery assurance across growth and efficiency initiatives planned to meet budget and performance targets.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Contribute to ongoing FM Operations Financial Strategy deliverables where assigned - including Strategic organization design; Location strategy and rightshoring; Hiring and resourcing strategy

• Able to organise cross-functional teams to solve problems and formulate future-proof solutions aligned to key strategic aims and business efficiency targets. Responsible for leading assigned global and regional financial initiatives end to end from planning to implementation.

Business

• Responsible for leading core business planning and performance deliverables across Financial Markets Operations. This includes: Budget and cost planning; Efficiency initiatives; Headcount and hiring.
• Responsible for timely and accurate reporting of actuals and forecasted performance across financials (headcount and non-headcount costs), headcount and initiative milestones.
• Conducts analysis across datasets to provide trends and insights that drive improvement in performance metrics and inform decision making.

People & Talent

• Lead by example to build the appropriate culture and values. Set the appropriate tone and expectations when interacting across functional teams and work in collaboration with stakeholders

Risk Management

• The ability to interpret the Group\xe2\x80\x99s and Business\xe2\x80\x99 financial information, identify and escalate key issues in execution plans based on this information and define actions plans to mitigate and track resolution where required.
• Work with global and functional teams to continue to develop FMO Key performance metrics to ensure clear visibility of progress to achieve financial and headcount targets.

Governance

• Embed the Group\xe2\x80\x99s values and code of conduct to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * 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.

Key stakeholders

• Financial Markets Operations leadership team (including global function heads), Financial Markets COO; Finance partners.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in Financial Markets Operations; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree from a recognized University.
• 6+ years of relevant working experience in Business Management, Project / Change management, consulting / advisory and/or operations leadership roles in Banking / financial services industry.
• Working experience in supporting Financial Markets preferable with knowledge of products, processes and operating models.
• Strong data analytical skills, working with large datasets to produce meaningful visualisations and insights.
• Excellent presentation skills both written and oral communication. Strong stakeholder management skills with experience facing off to global stakeholders across varied business and functional teams.
• Creative problem-solver with good multi-tasking skills, able to prioritise issues and resolve them efficiently.
• Strong project management skills, with direct experience in managing business projects.
• Mature self-starter who can quickly get up to speed and take a strategic view.
• Ability to work on broad strategic projects as well as day-to-day process-oriented tasks.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Business Performance Management

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.

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