Job Description

Role Responsibilities
This role is as a Director within the Group CPBB Finance

• To support the Group and Countries in providing guidance on the accounting guidelines and alerts issued by the Group Accounting team in relation to Retail Banking (including Wealth Management), Business Banking and Private Banking products. This includes providing oversight to help ensure alignment and consistency of implementation across countries
• To support ongoing initiatives including the review of accounting related processes for compliance to the accounting guidelines and process efficiency and simplification and controls review
• To drive and support strategic, accounting and control initiatives across CPBB Finance, including countries and the business

Strategy

• Understanding the developments on accounting requirements and impact on the financials and ensuring these are incorporated in existing BAU processes and on going projects so that these future- ready
• Working with the Group Accounting team as well as Business and other Finance team in the implementation of new and emerging IFRS standards across the countries

Business

• Provide accounting advisory support to client businesses, country business finance and central finance teams, in the countries, working with the Group Accounting team.
• Working with the country business finance teams to ensure alignment and consistency in the application of the accounting guidelines and alerts issued by Group Accounting team
• Drive and support the roll out of key strategic finance projects as it relates to CPBB Finance and the countries
• Work with the central finance teams to manage and monitor their owned financial processes, set standards and review quality control

Processes

• Provide support in the review of the accounting related process to ensure compliance to accounting guidelines
• Propose process efficiency improvements and simplification as well as strengthening controls
• Perform thematic reviews for significant issues

People & Talent

• Strong interpersonal skills with ability to network and build strategic partnerships with business, operations, and other finance teams
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of country teams

Risk Management

• Operate 1st line responsibilities of process owners as outlined under Operational Risk Framework (ORF) and associated policies and procedures

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 team 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.

Key stakeholders

• Group Financial Reporting
• Group Technical Accounting
• CPBB Segment and Product CFOs
• Country CFOs and Country Business Finance teams
• Business teams
• Product Control

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\'s brand and values in Group CPBB Finance; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of work experience in the Banking industry, preferably in the area of Finance and Accounting.
• Strong IFRS accounting knowledge preferably in Retail Banking (including Wealth Management), Private Banking and Business Banking products
• Good working knowledge of process flows for retail and wealth management products is preferred
• Good project management skillset
• Is pro-active and able to think laterally and strategically and have strong analytical skills
• Proactively question and improve status quo, think outside the box to improve processes and controls and at the same time simplify
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills, forming positive working relationship in the multicultural environment.

Role Specific Competencies

• IFRS [International Financial reporting standard] knowledge.
• Financial controls skillset.
• Good project management skillset.
• Good working knowledge of process flows for retail and wealth management products is preferred.
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills, forming positive working relationship in the multicultural environment.
• Proactively question and improve status quo, think outside the box to improve processes and controls and at the same time simplify.

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.

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