JOB SUMMARY

The collection strategy and Governance team is a centre of excellence and is integral to the collection team in implementation of sustainable collections and recovery operations to deliver on operational and loss performance, productively, outstanding rationalization and controls.

Be part of a team that continues to find ways to enhance of collections and recovery capability and the driving of optimization and efficiency. We endeavour to balance between technical capability and business understanding to identify opportunities and find solutions. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Country lead in managing collection strategy initiatives. The staff ensures business requirement documentation, testing and verification. This also includes ensuring collection team engagement to ensure smooth change transition.

• The role manages country collection systems administration duties. This entails documenting country change requests, troubleshooting system issues, periodic review of system parameters and rules and system access management.

• Drive strategy and performance tracking for Digital partner portfolio including monthly performance reviews, daily collection reporting and system support.

• Responsible for department cost management which entails monthly cost review, budgeting/forecasting and driving execution of process optimization initiatives.

• Champion continuous process improvements, up skill collection techniques, upgrade collection tools and optimize collections systems

• Lead collection agenda in country and group level system and change projects to ensure seamless transition for collection processes.

• In conjunction with Hub team, coordinate various system reconciliations to ensure correct flow of information within the internal systems.

• To identify and execute collection workflow re-engineering to derive efficiencies while deriving simplicity and process clarity.

• The role manages validation of collection related regulatory reports including Debt collection Agency reports, manual bureau submissions and debt restructuring reports.

• 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.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Our Ideal Candidate
•    Education     Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Risk Management, or a related field. 
•    Training     Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Project/Visio).
•    Experience with collections systems and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is highly desirable.
•    Familiarity with SAS, SQL, or Python for data extraction/analysis is advantageous
•    Languages     Cantonese, Mandarin and English

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Data Science & Analytics
•    Project Management
•    Risk Management

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.