Job Summary

•    Drive a performance management framework, linking P&L to drivers/non-financial KPIs 
•    Create a 5-year Corporate Plan strategy supporting the delivery of CIB RoTE
•    Focus on Global Product, Sub-products, Clusters and Countries for driving performance agenda input into RoTE by businesses
•    Build strong partnerships with stakeholders, with excellent communication skills 
Summary
•    Responsible for Finance performance management, analytics, reporting, and planning, with end-to-end ownership of financial activities.

Key Responsibilities

Business Partnering & Stakeholder Management
•    Act as a Finance Business Partner to senior leaders and functions, supporting financial performance and decision-making.
•    Translate financial data into clear business narratives and messaging for stakeholders.
•    Manage stakeholder engagement, including escalation handling and alignment across teams.

Financial Management & Reporting
•    Oversee key financial processes including budgeting, planning & forecasting, management reporting, financial and variance analysis.
•    Ensure quality, accuracy, and timeliness (TAT) of all financial outputs and ad hoc deliverables.
•    Collaborate closely with Accounting, Standard Reporting, and Planning & Control teams.

Performance Management & Analytics
•    Deliver high-quality management information (MI) and analytics to drive performance insights and outcomes.
•    Support senior leadership with data-driven insights to improve business financials.

Process Optimization & Efficiency
•    Drive process improvements, productivity enhancements, and operational efficiency across the team.
•    Lead optimization initiatives across GCFO India and CIB to streamline processes and ensure seamless execution.
•    Continuously review end-to-end processes to identify and implement efficiency opportunities.
Team Leadership & Collaboration

•    Provide guidance, support, and oversight to team members to maintain high performance and quality standards.
•    Collaborate with team leaders and Global Financial Services teams to ensure smooth operations and effective coordination.
Governance & Compliance
•    Ensure adherence to all applicable regulations, company and group policies.
•    Uphold organizational values and maintain strong governance across all financial activities.

Strategy
•    Deliver insightful & actionable Analytics. Covering all financials including returns as well as identifying and articulating key risks to senior management to drive decision making 

Business
Being a effective Finance Business Partner, responsible to provide: 
•    Standard Performance MI with insights on current performance
•    Analytics Deep dive on Business Performance to drive consistent and sustainable above and beyond business performance
•    Partnership with Business Heads and CFOs to drive and manage Country Performance via agreed metrices 

Processes
Being a Functional owner of the FPA process, responsible for: 
•    Champion of the process and able to connect front to back with complete process ownership
•    Implementing industry best practices on Performance Management, Forecasting and Business Analytics
•    Driving Continuous process improvement which drives efficiency and better control in all the FP&A 
•    Collaborating with other Business Performance leads to ensure standard and consistent MI is delivered to business across CIB

Risk Management

•    Represent BPO in-Service Review engagements with CFOs, provide management insights and address any CFO level actions from the Review meetings
•    Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising and identify and manage forward looking risks. 
•    Through assignment of direct and indirect reports, establish and maintain an appropriate framework and procedures for monitoring, identifying, measuring, assessing, reporting, and managing compliance, regulatory, financial crime, operational and reputational risks

Governance 
•    Build and review Governance framework around Standard MI, internal controls, adherence to policy to adherence to agreed risk appetite.

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 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.
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association

Key stakeholders
Internal
•    CIB -  CFO/Performance Management Head
•    CIB - Global/Cluster/Country Business Heads
•    Business Finance Teams
•    CIB Cluster / Country Business Finance 
•    BPO CIB Product Finance
•    Group Finance Team (FP&A , Planning)

External
•    Auditors
•    Consultants
•    Benchmarking providers

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Fin Operations Business Performance Team]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats) 

Skills and Experience

•    Financial Analysis
•    Banking Products
•    Story Telling 
•    Data Analytics
•    Forecasting
•    Performance Management
•    Balance Sheet Management
•    Manage Risk
•    Manage People 
•    External Reporting
•    Strategy & Execution
•    Risk & Controls 
•    Regulatory & Compliance 

Qualifications

•    15+ years of experience in multinational financial services, with a focus on performance management
•    Strong understanding of CIB financials, especially corporate banking and large global institutions
•    Proven stakeholder management skills with ability to anticipate business needs and manage delivery
•    Excellent communication and presentation skills, conveying analysis clearly and confidently
•    Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint for analytics and reporting
•    Strong analytical capability to handle and derive insights from large, complex data sets
•    Experience working across global, virtual teams in multi-location environments
•    Strong commercial acumen with deep understanding of banking and financial services
•    Ability to link macroeconomic trends to P&L and balance sheet performance
•    Track record of leading strategic finance initiatives (e.g., RWA, balance sheet optimization, revenue growth)
•    Strategic mindset with expertise in FP&A, decision-making, risk assessment, and operational control
•    High-impact leadership traits: stakeholder influence, change/program management, resilience, and results orientation

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.