JOB SUMMARY

• Support to drive performance management process in order to enable HK/GCNA cluster CFO to effectively manage the financial objectives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Overall country performance management for Hong Kong supporting the Country Management team with the Financial Planning and Budgeting/Forecasting exercise, monthly performance review and analysis; 
• To collate market and competition information on the economy, market trends, peer reviews and any other relevant business related information requirements.  
• Partner with Business / Country Finance teams on HK/GCNA cluster strategy, performance issues / opportunities.

Business

• Provide timely and accurate financial information / MI / analysis (including business variance analysis linking current performance with future projections, business momentum, risks and opportunities) to enable strategic decision making. 
• Provide coordination and support during forecasting, budgeting and monthly reporting cycles for Hong Kong with Finance and Treasury functions.
• Support expense reporting for Hong Kong and provide analysis of their cost base, analysis Group cost allocations, prepare and support in the forecasting and budgeting activities, review and challenge cost allocation drivers and methodologies, support with monthly MI and analytics on the cost moments across various account lines and variances to budgets, forecasts, YoY, MoM, etc. 
• Liaise with GFS support and guide them for preparation and consolidation of Management Packs for HK/GCNA EXCO, Board meeting and other presentation materials required. 
• Provide market intelligence on key competitors’ performance and highlight any changes in the competitive landscape.
• Supporting the CEO and CFO with any other adhoc analysis and project related support.
• Liaise with GFS support for manual entries on accruals, reclassifications, ad-hoc adjustments, and account substantiation. 
• Ensure robust financial processes in place to report P&L and balance sheet in an accurate and timely manner and review monthly financial results.

Processes

• Drive continuous improvements, identifying opportunities to consolidate, automate, and gain process efficiencies
• Manage overall design and outcome of the end-to-end process and owns the process output performance in terms of client service, financial performance and risk where appointed as Process Owners.
• To implement appropriate internal controls and operating risk management/monitoring processes and procedures within the unit for ensuring integrity of Performance and Expense reporting and compliance with related group policies/standards.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• 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.

Key Stakeholders

• CFO, Hong Kong / GCNA Cluster
• Country onshore and GCNA FP&A
• Country Business Finance (CIB & WRB)
• Hong Kong/GCNA Cluster Treasury team
• Country onshore Finance team
• Business and Function teams
• GFS Chennai support
   

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Hong Kong / GSF Finance / FP&A;

Qualification

• Qualified accountant with relevant working experience in banking industry
• Strong connect with business performance metrics and how it is enabled through good process discipline
• Strong analytical skill
• Ability to work in an organised way, multi-tasking, prioritising, managing data to meet tight deadlines
• Should be a resilient, self starter with well developed communication & inter-personal skills
• Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• IFRS 

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.