Vice President, CF FP&A GBS

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term
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 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.
Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.Role Responsibilities This role is within the Financial Markets business ( FM ). The individual will cater to duties and responsibilities to Global Credit Markets GCM . FM business has a footprint in over 30+ countries with an annual $5 bn revenue (1/3rd of Standard Chartered Bank s revenue), managing 500+ traders with over $265+ bn assets under their direct control. The asset portfolio comprises a wide variety of financial instruments totalling ~$80 bn in risk weighted assets. FM FP&A team supports the CFO functions providing financial insights, assessing regulatory impacts on performance and tracking progress of strategic initiatives. The incumbent is expected to have forward looking (FP&A) mindset along with the below:
• Business Finance support for atleast one business/product within GCM and one or two Regions supporting MD level stakeholders.
• Sound understanding of RoTE, RoRWA, Sub Optimal Deals, ECL / Cost of Credit, Margins. Product knowledge of Loans business like Financing, Syndications, O2D model, RCF s etc. An added knowledge of the Credit Trading business would be an advantage.
• Corporate Plans, Budget Restatement, Engagement with Product/Regional CFO s on budget discussions.
• Quarterly performance drivers and narratives, Achievements & Challenges.
• Sharp Communication Skills. Has understanding of cracking a problem statement and explaining to the team such that outcome can be achieved quickly.
• Continuously motivating the team on their work and emphasis on work rotation so there is back up at all times. Navigate through times when there is staff shortage due to attrition/health conditions.
• Should have the ability to push back when something is unachievable or highlight what can be done and what cannot be done .
• Review of monthly performance packs and coach in implementation of sound controls and consistent processes.
• Accountable for Assets and RWA Forecast for GCM.
• Ensure that Revenue Outlook and all its related processes are running smoothly by the team. Any escalations to be handled.
• Understanding of cost and the various drivers for Incurred as well as Intra FM allocations.
• Client Analytics Understanding Client performance, relationship and resource consumption.
• Review and validation of scorecards for measuring business performance.
• Bespoke analysis surrounding financial analytics and helping the business achieve its target.
• SME for driving Automation and Improvement in the team.
• Primary contact person for the business and local finance teams with regards to issues related to the business.
• Sound knowledge of finance systems like MRC, HP, PMI, RMI and can guide the team through any issues. Such systems can be similar or benchmarked to other financial systems across organisations within the FP&A space.
• Lead the FP&A team, Mentor new resources and nurture talent.
Key Measurables
• A first class finance / Product Control division, which continually seeks to challenge and improve standards.
• A strong internal control environment, which will ensure the business, continues to grow in a stable and well-controlled manner.
• Driving closer alignment between FP&A and in-country finance teams.
• Optimal systems configuration and process improvements, leading to cost efficiencies.
Key Stakeholders Internal
• CFO GCM
• BPM
• Product & Regional MD s
• Business partners
• Regional CFO s
External
• KPMG (audit & advisory)
• PRA
Our Ideal Candidate
• MBA, CA, CFA with a minimum of 10+ years experience (post qualification) in a financial service industry
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Keyskills :
cost controlfinancial systemscredit tradingproject managementautomation