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Responsibilities
- Submission of P&L, Forecast month end P&L liaising with wider finance team and business COOs.
- Performing deal review and approving fee recognition based on IFRS9 and IFRS 15 principles.
- Ensure appropriate controls and reviews are maintained for Daily P&L production, Core reconciliations, Month end close and BSRS.
- Should be able to substantiate daily and monthly adjustments held in P&L and control accounts.
- Help to guide and train team members to ensure adherence to controls.
Strategy
- Review monthly balance sheet, with substantiation and potential financial exposure.
- Review/Prepare various reconciliation reports, management packs and adhoc reports.
- Posting and review of month end Journals for accrual, provision and true up.
- Take responsibility for the quality of work submitted and ensure that the highest standards are maintained by the team.
Business
- Ensure adherence to SLA's, KPI's , Internal metrics & FMG wide policies.
- Identify/ manage risk and control breakdowns.
- Develop & Maintain effective and standard processes. Maintain KOP's/DI's.
- Support change project initiatives and conduct User Acceptance Testing for enhancements to current systems or migration to new system.
- Production of monthly packs and assist in implementation of sound controls and consistent processes around Monthly packs.
- Balance Sheet & RWA forecast for Corporate Finance
- Client Analytics - Understanding Client performance, relationship, and resource consumption.
- Production and validation of CF scorecards for measuring business performance.
- Bespoke analysis surrounding ledger and client balances and helping the business achieve its target
Responsibilities
Strategy
- Ensure Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role
Business
- Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates
Processes
- Ensure processes for which the individual is responsible is executed as required.
People & Talent
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values
- Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
- Employ, engage and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
- Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
- Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
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.
- Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
- Regular face off with Business, Product Control Management, Regional finance team and various internal stakeholders.
- Act as a point of reference for asset class.
- Manage relationship with internal stakeholders, take regular feedback, anticipate, and understand issues and escalate appropriately for timely resolution
- Manage strong relationship with support teams (IT, Operations and Risk) and bring synergies by interacting and integrating with cross functional teams
Qualification
- CA or MBA (Finance) from a reputed institution.
- 6+ years of experience with most recent 3years in product control.
- Good understanding of Accounting and Financial Markets products.
- Analytical skills, hands on experience with PeopleSoft financials, SAP, MS Office & MS SQL will be an added advantage.
- Strong Control mindset.
- Strong interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skill which help build an effective internal network across the numerous stakeholders. Strong interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skill which help build an effective internal network across the numerous stakeholders
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Communication
- IFRS & Accounting knowledge
- Banking Loan Products
- Product Controller
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.
