Immediate Require Senior Manager, Record to Report - Reporting

Job Description

*Role Responsibilities Strategy
• As member of the R2R team Contributing to the overall GFS / R2R Strategy of India and Africa.
• Drive strategic initiatives in GFS to enhance the footprint of processes from the countries.
• Supporting the Finance priorities and ensuring GFS plays a lead role. Ex. IFRS 9, Faster close.
• Supporting the Finance transformation programme to drive sustainable solutions and process improvements.
• Providing support to the Aspire program and implementing actions as per the program schedule.
Business and Process
• Ensuring partnership and alignment with other GPM/ COE area in establishing end to end alignment of processes including sharing of best practices.
• Maintain a strong financial controls and operational risk control environment over the function. This includes achieving an ongoing healthy business environment through strict compliance of policies standards and maintenance of a robust infrastructure and processes.
• The role is also expected to proactively drive improvement initiatives to continuously enhance the global process, whilst maintaining the highest levels of governance and controls.
• Ensure data integrity in the financial reports for accuracy and completeness.
• Ensure team performs Local Statutory Reporting and is well versed with IFRS vs Local Stat reporting.
• Ensure team performs business review of IFRS schedules profit & loss, balance sheet and off-balance sheet to confirm expected results are reported in the schedules.
• Ensure the team demonstrate due diligence in preparation of ALCO pack for the supported countries and reviews the same as per the understanding with the stakeholders.
• Ensure all SLAs are met and the team adheres to 100% quality for all processes.
• Ensure a stronger collaboration across various GFS units.
• Drive the process standardization and Identify consolidation opportunities from the countries for process migration.
People and Talent
• Support & build strong high performing teams with demonstration of Thought leadership, Influencing and collaboration skills with a clear focus on driving results.
• Ensuring an effective and robust employee performance management culture is in place. Driving an impactful managerial effectiveness by the people managers in the team to drive higher motivation and engagement levels.
• Provide strong leadership to the team; attract, retain and develop finance professionals in the unit, to effectively execute workload and support / advise the stakeholders.
• As a senior leader in the GFS-R2R team actively lead and drive People initiatives and work with cross functional leadership.
• Coach, Mentor and help in building a strong second line of leadership in GFS-R2R team.
• Ensure all staffs are attending mandatory training programs and also arrange for domain-based training wherever required.
• Manage attrition below 15% in the team through effective employee engagement and Talent Retention programs.
• Enhance the employee engagement scores across the teams, through effective coaching, performance management practices, Talent retention & Functional development of employees.
Risk Management and Governance
• Perform process risk analysis to identify the gaps in the existing process.
• Embed the Group s values and code of conduct in the role remit to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations.
• Ensure review of process documentation of all processes once in 6 months.
• Ensure all staffs are attending mandatory training programs and also arrange for domain-based training wherever required.
• Support internal & external audits and ensure nil adverse comments.
• Driving the RM engagement with the designated countries and ensuring strengthening of the GFS engagement with the key stakeholders.
• Ensure the monthly dashboard calls with Stakeholders with key process metrics and forward-looking actions.
• Complying with all governance requirements Process metrics review, BCP.
• Coordinate with internal and external auditors to provide timely information and support.
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: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
• Financial Controllers or Head of Finance in the country
• Auditors
• GFS teams like R2R Accounting, R2R Controllers, IM Team, Technology, Tax and Capital functions
• Group Consolidation team
• Group Finance Operational Risk
• HRBP and Talent Acquisition
Our Ideal Candidate
• MBA Finance / Qualified C.A or I C.W.A.
• 8 to 10 years post qualification relevant work experience in a Financial Reporting role preferably in a financial services industry with specific experience in performing analytical reviews of legal entity/statutory reporting (schedules and data) with business in focus.
• Good understanding of Financial Accounting standards (IAS and IFRS) Demonstrates ability to respond to client requirement.
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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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.
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Keyskills :
balance sheetexternal auditdue diligencefinancefinancial servicesrisk analysismis