Finance Partner- Business & Support Functions

Job ID: 34507

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 Jul 2025

• This role works as a bridge between the Phoenix project team and bank wide business finance team. This high visibility role will drive the finance conversation around the service catalogue that the bank is building.

• Deliver an all in cost service catalogue for the bank covering front to back for all products and services of the bank.
• Driving business conversation on mapping of their services to services taxonomy and the resultant costing under a resolution scenario
• Drive alignment between business and services taxonomy team on the services that define broadly the business area, support service, functions.

• The role manages the conversation with business finance to align the bank towards a service-based costing model
• The role in partnership with VP will help the business understand how the business is being broken down by services, validate the completeness and consistency of services along with the business
• The role runs the cost models and validates the outcome of catalogue mappings
• Understand the current performance management structure and communicate the alignment and non-alignment areas to the business and help them manage the same through structural maintenance.

• The role will work closely with the VP Business Partner to ensure Transfer Pricing, Cost Simplification project and Project Mitto are aligned and Phoenix objectives are in sync and clearly communicated and understood by all
• Be the connect between the project team and the business and ensure clear and timely communication of objectives & timelines

• Drive digitization, automation and adoption of smart ways of working
• Work on designing of dashboard to bring about transparency of costing and support granular views requested by stakeholders.
• Prompt visibility to issues to all stakeholders and ensure their resolution

• Ensure adequate control checks in all MI outputs to facilitate audit
• Ensuring the Ops risk framework is adhered to

• 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.

• Phoenix Project Team
• CFO & extended Business Finance Teams
• Cost Simplification Work Streams
• Mitto Project teams

• Consultants

• Education Graduate degree/ aca/ icwai/mba finance
• Training Multinational working experience
• Languages English

• A strong financial performance background & ability to accurately forecast
• Strong banking knowledge.
• Proven analytical individual, continually seeking to challenge and improve performance
• Strong collaboration skills with the business and finance community
• Optimal process ownership, making activities simpler, faster, better
• Commercializing automated dashboards with drill down capability
• A strong control environment, ensuring robust measures to address material risk procedures.

• 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

• 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.