Responsibilities

• Ensure high quality regulatory reporting in compliance with CBI regulations and requirements and implementation of Group standards and policies where required.
• Assist CFO/FC Iraq maintaining strong relationships with CBI departments and Tax Authorities.
• Networking and liaison with the key finance customers – Group Finance, Business Finance, Local Regulators, Central Bank Inspectors, Statutory Auditors and Tax Auditors.
• Provide effective financial support to other finance customers like Group Finance, Group Corporate Treasury, Group Market Risk, Group Taxation, Group Auditors, Statutory Auditors, Local Regulators, Other Support Functions.
• Maintain an effective control environment ensuring that all regulatory and financial control requirements are met.
• Contribute to cost efficiencies in Iraq through effective financial business support to the function.
• Providing strong Finance Support to the Business.
• Develop report & monitor both leading & lagging financial and non-financial key performance indicators.
• Assist in developing robust business plans for Business and provide management with the information necessary to monitor performance against these plans.
• Initiate and coordinate the formulation of the annual Business Operating Plans and budgeting process.
• Ensure that financial statements and returns are prepared in adherence with regulatory requirements and group standards.
• Handle the evaluations of local projects and revenue natures in accordance with group guidelines.
• Monitor the capital expenditure and to ensure adherence to budget limits. 
• Main point of contact with the bank’s service excellence team in Chennai.
• Responsible for identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks to the Group.
• Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight, and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas.

Skills and experience

• Experience in finance.
• Bachelor of accounting, business administration, or economic.
• Member of Iraqi Accountants and Auditors Syndicate.
• Global organization or banking sector experience.
• Proficient in English.
• Good stakeholder management skills.
• Good communication skills.
• Proficient in Excel.

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.