Job Summary

The role is part of the UK Finance department which is responsible for UK Statutory Regulatory Reporting and all IFRS for the region including supporting the various business heads, the Regional CEO and all the Group functions and business teams across our Global footprint to understand, manage and drive the complex business and operations within Europe. Our presence in Europe is key to connecting our footprint markets of Asia, Africa and the Middle East with the West through offering global support as the centre of excellence for product and segment teams.
This role is within the UK Country Finance team primarily covering the UK Bank of England Regulatory Reporting and Treasury Capital business. 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for the completeness and accuracy of the financial reporting, disclosure and underlying financial and consolidation books and records of Treasury Capital within Standard Chartered Bank PLC and Standard Chartered Bank UK. 
• Ensuring entity level financial reporting impacts are understood and that accounting is accurate and reasonable from group driven processes.
• Business partner to Treasury Capital UK and primary contact to product control, operations, tax, regulatory reporting, group finance, audit and risk 
• Review month end and quarter end entity and consolidation journals and propose journals where adjustments to the ledger are needed.
• Helping to monitor system flows and advising where accounting/mapping need to be corrected for reporting to ASPIRE and Operations teams.
• Responsible for balance sheet substantiation UK Finance owned accounts.
• Be able to track major transactions through the transaction processing systems to the general ledger and deep dive into historic balances.
• Providing key business finance support for managing the short- and long-term currency positions and group structural net investment hedges including evaluating and ensuring accurate accounting of monetary items or transactions that generate currency positions.
• Attributing and ensuring the accurate monthly reporting of Foreign Exchange (FX) Profit & Loss to the business.
• Working with product control on the annual Corporate Plan and providing analysis and commentary for finance
• Work with GFS team to produce timely and accurate Bank of England Returns for statistical reporting on monthly and quarterly basis.
• Work with B&M, FOT and Technology to ensure correct reporting from TP migrations, participate in User Acceptance Testing and raise bottlenecks to senior managers.
• Regular review of hedge documentation and hedge accounting advice.
• Explaining movements in financial balances clearly and succinctly, demonstrating an understanding of the underlying drivers.
• Supporting the Aspire programme to deliver a new ledger and onboarding. 
• Ensuring accuracy, integrity and timely submission of all BPC data reporting using UK general ledgers as source, including external data requests and other quarterly group reporting requirements.
• To perform any other duties called upon to perform.

Qualifications and Experience

• Qualified accountant
• Working knowledge of IAS 21 Effects of Changes in Foreign Exchange Rates including experience of FX translation, IFRS 9 Financial Instruments including accounting for interest rate swaps, cross currency swaps, FX spots, forwards and hedge accounting
• Working knowledge of Bank of England Statistical Reporting and current Taxonomy
• Proven ability in financial and management accounting
• Current theoretical and practical knowledge of IFRS and its implications on reporting. 
• Practical experience with banking reporting systems
• A self-starter and creative thinker with the ability to set and manage their own agenda 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to drive change effectivel
• Proven ability in financial and management accounting
• Current theoretical and practical knowledge of IFRS and its implications on reporting
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Regulatory Reporting

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.