Job Summary

Standard Chartered is a major player in Transaction Banking (TB), combining deep local knowledge and global capability to offer the full scope of innovative, customised solutions in trade finance and cash management. As a top global Transaction bank – we are a key driver of Corporate & Investment Banking (‘CIB’) aspirations, contributing to more than  1/3rd  of CIB revenues. We have a unique business focus on enabling trade, investment and supply chain financing for, in and out from Asia, Africa and the Middle East. We aim to be a one-stop gateway providing supply chain and liquidity management for corporates and financial institutions. And we are committed to using our cross-border network to facilitate our local clients' growing trade and investment flows and cash and liquidity management needs across our business footprint. 
Standard Chartered’s Cash management business sits within its Transaction Banking business with presence in over 40 countries managing over c.$200bn of Corporate and FI client deposits. It offers a holistic suite of payment and liquidity management solutions to our clients whilst being at the forefront of product innovation. Cash Management business is a key CIB pillar and major contributor to the bank’s overall liquidity pool, revenue and returns. It is a significant and value accretive business with tremendous opportunity for further growth. 
Standard Chartered’s Trade and Working Capital finance provides global corporate, institutional, and SME clients Standard Chartered’s Trade and Working Capital finance provides global corporate, institutional, and SME clients
Standard Chartered’s Financing and Securities Services (FSS) business provides a range of products and services to clients. The core offerings of FSS include Custody, clearing and fund services. It has a large and expanding network presence in emerging markets and is focused on digitization and product capability expansion, especially in the digit assets space.

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Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    The role is part of the E & A Finance team which is responsible for all Product and Client Coverage performance management reporting for CIB in Europe including supporting the various Business Heads, Cluster CEO and coverage heads 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.  
•    The role provides timely and accurate management information, including monthly performance tracking and variance analysis against budget and outlook, to guide business decisions. This position also drives value-added analysis on business drivers, segment performance, and product trends, while actively supporting budgeting, forecasting, and the identification of risks to business plans. In addition, the role holder will play a key role in the development and enhancement of financial market-related systems, ensuring accurate representation of funding costs, margins, and returns. Close collaboration is required with business teams on financial analysis, and investment activities to support growth initiatives, and will drive RWA and loan impairment performance management by partnering with CPM, FRM, and business teams to optimize capital efficiency.  

Business
•    Partner with key TB business stakeholders to support strategic priorities across the business, including portfolio growth, RWA and capital management to deliver improving returns, income growth in line with strategy, focussing on key product capabilities in the region and growing wallet share.  
•    Review product performance, providing forward looking insights, and highlighting opportunities and early warning signals.  
•    Deliver timely and accurate management information, including monthly financial performance reporting, variance analysis against budget and outlook and actionable insights to support business decision-making. 
•    Support business planning, budgeting, forecasting and strategic initiatives by providing financial analysis, challenging business assumptions, and ensuring alignment with business objectives. 
•    Support FP&A activities across the TB business in the cluster, including budgeting, forecasting, performance reporting, trend analysis and management presentations to support business decision-making. 
•    Understand and run processes for supplying information and analysis to senior management for Cluster and Product Heads.
•    Understand what the drivers and risk parameters are for the business.
•    Periodical reporting and analysis of business performance – across product and market segmentation for Origination, Franchise and Enhanced F lenses.  
•    Partner with business on strategic growth initiatives with a view to drive growth, whilst maintaining a high level of integrity and independence 
Processes
•    Providing timely and accurate performance summary reports to Group TB Finance team. This involves understanding and preparation of various analytical reports providing insight on business performance.

•    Ensure Business Finance is involved in all financial information and analysis provided.
•    Ensure that processes are in place to allow clear view of current and projected performance across all product areas and geographic and customer segmentations that generate TB revenues.
•    Work with TB Finance to ensure reporting to global business represents true picture of the TB Europe business.
•    Challenging current practices and procedures including identification and rectification of control weaknesses in them.
•    Developing offshore service centre personal to assist them to grow and ensure new reporting requirements are delivered. 
People and Talent 
•    Timely and proactive identification of MIS requirements.
•    Coordination with information process owners and shared services to ensure that these requirements are met in a timely and efficient manner.
•    Participation in system implementations, changes in reporting structures and new products, to ensure that all finance and business requirements are able to be met.
•    Strong team working and networking capability – success of role is reliant on ability to work with many different teams effectively.
•    Good communication with maturity and confidence to deal with senior business management and third parties.
Risk Management
•    Work with the business and other support teams to identify and correct inaccurate financial information caused by issues in static data, systems or processes in order to identify risks to the Group
•    Supporting and maintaining strong Financial Controls over financial and management group reporting.

Skills and Experience

•    Manage Conduct
•    Manage Risk
•    Manage People
•    External Reporting
•    Risks and Controls
•    Performance Management
•    Balance Sheet Management
•    Tax Management
•    Regulatory and Compliance

Qualifications

Education
•    Qualified Accountant, with degree in finance or economics; MBA/CA or other post graduate qualifications
Training
•    Ten plus years of experience in financial planning and analysis gained in leading financial services companies 
•    Strong working knowledge of the CIB business
•    Excellent communication skills, written and presentation
•    Proven problem solver using quantitative techniques; strong analytical skills with ability to develop proof of concept frameworks and business cases
•    Ability to drive results
•    Team player and ability to work well within a matrix environment
•    Degree in Finance, Economics or Engineering; with professional accounting qualification also preferred

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.