Job Description

Role Responsibilities

• Collect strategic data, integrate large datasets and conduct quantitative analysis to obtain business insights, developing these into workable solutions and visually intuitive results to support management decision making and drive business performance. This covers a wide range of areas including pipeline and sales performance, volume trend analysis, operations productivity, pricing and margin sensitivity as well as competitor benchmarking.
• Develop and maintain robust financial models using internal and external drivers, integrating data from multiple sources, to accurately predict revenue, cost and balance sheet performance for purposes of forecasting, corporate planning and target setting.
• Develop complex data models to provide greater transparency of cost drivers per unit of transaction volume to enable more robust and optimal client pricing (ie. Unit cost / pricing model).
• 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.
• Act as a central point of contact for the annual stress test review, responsible for validating assumptions and challenging model outcomes.
• Drive cost discipline across the TB sales and product organizations via initiative tracking and productivity reviews to deliver year-on-year RoTE improvements.
• Gatekeeper of the investments process, partnering with COO function and Finance teams to effectively support business case modelling, benefits validation and tracking, budget refreshes as well as enhance transparency of investment reporting across the business.

Finance Functional Support

• 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.
• 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 as well as tracking and reporting of cost synergy achievements.

People and Talent

• Guide, inspire and motivate the TB Finance offshore team ensuring that each individual achieves their potential and that the team delivers its collective agenda.
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.

Key Stakeholders

• Chief Financial Officer, Transaction Banking
• Chief Operation Officer, Transaction Banking
• Head of FP&A, Transaction Banking
• Head of Performance Management, CCIB
• Head of Finance, Cash
• Head of Finance, Trade

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\'s brand and values in the TB Finance team and ensure a strong influence in the Group\'s external messaging and positioning.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\'s Values and Code of Conduct.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Performance Management: Exceptional visualization and storyboarding capabilities, with strong ability to translate complex information into impactful executive-ready presentations.
• 10+ relevant experience in Performance Management or Financial planning and analysis or data analytics.
• Product knowledge: Prior experience and exposure to Transaction Banking Products (i.e. Cash Management and Trade Finance Business) and Cost Management experience
• Process knowledge: Prior experience to Corporate planning process (multi products / countries)
• Qualification: Qualified Accountant, with degree in finance or economics; MBA / CA or other post graduate qualifications.
• Understanding of Data visualisation tool: Intermediate understanding of reporting and data visualisation tools such as Business Objects, Power Bi and Tableau.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Performance Management: Exceptional visualization and storyboarding capabilities, with strong ability to translate complex information into impactful executive-ready presentations.
• Relevant experience in Performance Management or Financial planning and analysis or data analytics.
• Product knowledge: Prior experience and exposure to Transaction Banking Products (i.e. Cash Management and Trade Finance Business) and Cost Management experience
• Process knowledge: Prior experience to Corporate planning process (multi products / countries)
• Qualification: Qualified Accountant, with degree in finance or economics; MBA / CA or other post graduate qualifications.
• Understanding of Data visualisation tool: Intermediate understanding of reporting and data visualisation tools such as Business Objects, Power Bi and Tableau.

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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