About Standard Chartered

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

The Role Responsibilities

• To collaborate with local and group finance teams to be able to provide insightful and relevant financial information to senior management and other stakeholders.
• To ensure regular and ad-hoc management reporting requirements are timely delivered.
• To ensure integrity of the management performance results through keeping regular track of the financial and management differences and their validity.
• Analyze country performance (management and financial), review highlight risks and opportunities and drive actions to ensure committed financial outcome.
• Drive effective cost management through a rigorous cost control and investment management process
• To implement group management accounting policies and resolve associated issues.
• To manage overall process of financial forecasting and corporate planning, as well as other specific areas assigned to the team (e.g. Other Banking, Corp Items and CEO).
• To provide guidance and assistance to GFS teams when there are reporting issues and to give clarity and direction when there are ambiguity.
• To provide the required support to other country finance teams on various regular or ad-hoc submissions (e.g. IWST, ICAAP, capital projections).
• To support and contribute to key finance projects and process change agenda.
• Manage overall design and outcome of the end-to-end process and owns the process output performance in terms of client service, financial performance and risk where appointed as Process Owners.
• Ensure compliance with Group/ IFRS accounting principles and practices, Financial Control Policy and other regulatory accounting guidelines.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of financial returns to internal and external authorities and stakeholders.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Qualified accountant in the Banking/Financial Services sector with at least 10 years of relevant experience.
• Good analytical skills, knowledge of reporting standards and understanding on accounting of banking processes.
• Strong communication, PowerPoint and Excel skills - able to present clear outputs.
• Ability to think both strategically and analytically and apply these skills to interpret financial information.
• Excellent interpersonal skills; Ability to communicate and interact effectively with colleagues and build teamwork.
• Good multi-tasker who is able to work under pressure and tight deadlines while delivering quality output to senior management.
• High level of numeracy and detailed oriented.

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.