Job Summary

Maintain strong internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting processes while ensuring accuracy and integrity of data sourced from core banking systems and general ledger while preparing timely and accurate monthly, quarterly, and annual financial submissions and Consolidating financial data across functions and ensure proper reconciliations between system outputs and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

•    Coordinate with stakeholders ensuring smooth reporting processes and compliance with reporting standards.
•    Support Business function with financial analysis, variance explanations, and for decision-making.
•    Prepare monthly results, management reports, dashboard and Key Performance Indicators for leadership
•    Coordinate with stakeholders ensuring smooth reporting processes and compliance with reporting standards.
•    Monitor and implement new guidelines and assess their impact on reporting and compliance requirements.
•    Liaise with Business finance and other functions on queries, support in reviews, ensuring timely responses and corrective actions where required.
•    Maintain strong internal controls over financial and regulatory reporting processes.
•    Ensure accuracy and integrity of data sourced from core banking systems and general ledger.
•    Develop and maintain reporting policies, procedures, and documentation in line with internal governance and regulatory standards.
•    Support internal audit reviews, risk assessments, and compliance testing related to reporting functions.
•    Collaborate with Finance, Treasury, Risk, and Business to ensure consistency and accuracy in reporting.
•    Provide management with insights on financial reporting impacts to support strategic decisions.
•    Partner with business to drive financial performance, optimize resource, monitor profitability, client level performance and support strategic decision making and performance management. 
•    Support and lead annual budgeting and forecasting 
•    Track performance and highlight performance gaps
•    Partner with business units to analyse financial impacts of business and strategic actions
•    Work closely with all Business team to achieve high standard quality of work. 
•    Analyse Business performance against budget, highlight variances and prepare reasoning.
•    Prepare important components of Statutory Budget and prepare the presentation for the statutory budget to be presented to the board

•    Effective management of operational risk within the function including ensuring the proper functioning of embedded and periodic controls.
•    Timely identification and escalation of risk issues.
•    Establish the first line of assurance in the business unit by implementing a programme of Key Control Self Assessments (KCSAs).
•    Ensure Open risks have mitigating actions, owners and target dates and monitor progress of the same

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.