Standard Chartered Bank
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
- To add-value to the strategic direction, planning, budgeting forecasting and performance of the business in support of the Cluster or Business Head
- Implement controls within the Business Unit to meet business cost challenges.
- Assist Business Unit Head and Finance Operational Risk Manager in coordinating, driving and directing effective compliance and operational risk management at the Business Unit level
- Support Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) on strategy development, business planning and budgeting.
- Ongoing evaluation of business decision making process through business MIS and application of analytics.
- Analysis and evaluation of investment decisions and options support the project approval process and provide financial management of initiatives.
Business
Reporting
- Report Country Wealth and Retail Banking performance and ensure reports are timely and accurate at both product and customer segments level and feed into;
- Monthly Exco & Performance reviews
- Quarterly board reviews
- Half & full year financial reporting
- Review regulatory returns for Insurance agency & investment services
Budgeting and Planning
- Actively support the formulation and reporting of the annual Country Wealth and Retail Banking Budget
- Assist to develop and maintain product and customer segment profitability modelling.
- Review, Challenge and Influence
- Provide business stewardship – track, forecast, action plans
- Profitability improvement initiatives
Processes
- ICAAP- supporting the business with ICAAP financials and assumptions used to aid the country ICAAP activities.
- Provide Management Information Systems (MIS) to drive performance
Risk Management
- Act as Unit Operational Risk Manager for the Reporting Unit
- To report Unit’s Operational Risk issues and losses to Functional Operational Risk Manager (FORM)
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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
- Minimum 5 O’level Credits or better including English & Mathematics
- Minimum Bachelors Degree or equivalent in Accounting/ Finance/ Related subject
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in Management reporting, Budget Planning, Forecasting, Stress Testing, Data Analysis and Business Performance review.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Package
- Data Mining
- Memberships to Professional bodies – ACCA, CIMA, ZICA or Equivalent
- Good Stakeholder Management Skills
- Good written and Oral communication skills
- Uses business acumen and interpersonal skills.
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.