Key Responsibilities
- Identify and implement standardised reporting
- Ensure a robust financial control over all balance sheet items and ensure the integrity and accuracy of financial accounts.
- Manage reviews and checks of key controls standards and reporting results thereof.
- Financial accounting/reporting activities such as month end close of financial accounts, reconciliation of account balances, analytical review of variances in key account balances between periods, quarterly IFRS reporting to HO
- Challenging current practices and procedures and identifying opportunities for efficiencies including task migrations
- Proactive approach in identifying, raising, reporting and resolving ledger integrity issues ensuring analyst/s team focus on critical activities.
- Taking ownership and responsibility for recurring tasks and reporting’s in this area (e.g. EORP, FCS, etc.)
- Ensure that all financial control issues are tracked and resolved
- Execute an effective risk management framework, and promote a strong risk management and a compliance culture
- Work closely with the Financial Control Unit Head in managing the Financial Controls & Risk function. Ensure financial control policies and compliance monitoring measures are in place and being adhered to
Our Ideal Candidate
- Working knowledge of finance and accounting systems
- Good understanding of financial reporting within international structure \
- Ability to prepare financial statement analysis
- Operation finance process knowledge
- Accounting Competency
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.
- 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.
