The role of Assistant Manager, CCIB Finance, Middle East, is a pivotal position within our team based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. You will be responsible for supporting the financial management and reporting activities related to the Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CCIB) division in the Middle East region. This involves collaborating closely with business partners to deliver timely and accurate financial insights and analysis which will drive informed decision-making and operational excellence.

You will play a crucial part in budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies. Your expertise will contribute to enhancing financial controls and efficiencies across the region, while helping to shape and implement strategic financial initiatives. This role offers the opportunity to develop your technical competencies and leadership skills in a dynamic and fast-paced banking environment.

Key responsibilities include preparing monthly financial reports, liaising with various stakeholders to clarify financial data, guiding less experienced colleagues, and actively participating in projects aimed at optimizing financial processes. Your ability to manage ambiguity, demonstrate sound decision-making, and drive vision in alignment with organizational objectives will be essential for success in this role.

We are seeking a proactive, collaborative, and customer-focused professional who thrives in a complex and evolving banking environment. The ideal candidate will exhibit strong competencies in strategic thinking and technical finance skills tailored to the CCIB business needs.

• Action Oriented: Demonstrates initiative and a bias for results in meeting financial targets and resolving challenges.
• Collaborative Team Player: Engages effectively with cross-functional teams, fostering an inclusive environment and building productive partnerships.
• Customer Focus: Maintains a clear commitment to understanding client needs and enhancing their experience through financial solutions and insights.
• Gives Clarity & Guidance: Communicates financial information transparently and provides clear direction to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Manages Ambiguity: Navigates uncertainty with confidence and adapts strategies as required.
• Develops Talent: Supports the growth and development of team members through coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Drives Vision & Purpose: Aligns financial objectives with broader organizational goals and fosters a shared sense of purpose.
• Decision Quality & Courage: Makes informed, timely decisions and courageously advocates for necessary actions.
• Instills Trust: Builds credibility through integrity and consistent delivery.
• Strategic Mindset: Applies insight to anticipate future needs and opportunities within the CCIB finance arena.
• Technical Competencies: Demonstrates mastery in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and regulatory compliance specific to corporate banking.

We value agility and continuous learning, expecting the successful candidate to embrace new technologies and innovative approaches that enhance financial management and reporting.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the preparation and analysis of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for the CCIB division, ensuring accuracy and relevance.
• Collaborate closely with business partners to interpret financial data and support strategic planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities.
• Manage and enhance financial control frameworks, policies, and procedures, ensuring compliance with both internal and external requirements.
• Facilitate communication between finance and other teams to ensure transparency and clarity on key financial metrics and insights.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives, leveraging new systems, tools, and best practices to increase efficiency and data quality.
• Contribute to talent development by mentoring junior colleagues and promoting a culture of learning and professional growth.
• Help identify financial risks and opportunities, advising senior management on sound business decisions.
• Ensure timely completion of all financial reporting deliverables while maintaining high standards of accuracy and compliance.
• Participate actively in cross-functional projects and regulatory audits as required.

This is an excellent opportunity for a finance professional eager to grow within a leading international banking environment and ready to make meaningful contributions to our business success in the Middle East.

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.