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Job Summary
Performance Management:
- Explains the Performance Management framework and tools to new joiners including customer and product segmentation, management accounting principles, process and rationale for management reallocations, forecast and budget process.
- Assesses impact within the role of any changes in management accounting principles.
- Prepares performance management reports and performs basic analysis.
- Identifies situations where the appropriate management accounting reporting policy should be applied or where it has been applied incorrectly.
- Recognizes good business performance from poorer performance using an objective data driven approach.
- Implements data controls verifying the integrity of reporting schedules with the General Ledger and associated Transaction Processing systems
Influencing and Advisory
- Provides cost insights and recommendations in a way that supports decision-making and encourages action.
- Builds strong working relationships with business leads and cross-functionable teams, understanding their priorities and shaping messages to show how cost decisions impact delivery. Advises on cost trade-offs-such as whether to invest in new software or extend existing platforms-backed by financial analysis and clear communication.
- Uses influencing technique and relationship building to gain buy-in, resolve conflicts etc for cost-saving initiatives or tighter cost controls without formal authority.
- Example: Works with marketing and compliance to challenge and reduce discretionary spend during a cost-tightening phase, offering alternative approaches to achieve business goals within reduced funding envelopes
Key Responsibilities
Strategy and Planning
- Prepares and analyses departmental cost plans in collaboration with business and functional leads, ensuring alignment to strategic goals and corporate budget targets.
- Highlights key trends, cost pressures, and risks, and challenges underlying assumptions in proposed spend. Works with cost centre owners to shape realistic and deliverable plans that reflect both operational needs and cost efficiency.
- Communicates how changes in strategy (e.g. automation, cloud migration) impact future cost profiles and helps adjust plans accordingly.
- Example: Partners with the technology leadership team to reshape next year's cost plan in response to a shift toward cloud services, identifying legacy infrastructure savings and modelling transitional cost impacts over time.
Financial Analysis
- Assesses the context, rationale and impact of movements in the reporting environment / market and is able to articulate these changes (i.e. impact on operations and/or systems) both to Finance colleagues as well as business/ function stakeholders.
- Reviews reporting packs and specialized schedules to draw connections among different financial and non-financial indicators / ratios / reports/ metrics to derive holistic perspective of the Bank's and/or clients' financial performance, financial state, the effectiveness of its use of working capital and its creditworthiness
- Assumes ownership of the end-to-end reporting process, taking responsibility for coordination between units within Finance to ensure delivery of the reporting requirements.
- Plays an integral part in any re-engineering reporting process with a mindset for maximizing efficiency and maintaining standardised data quality and integrity.
- Consults others on identifying, tracing, and correcting errors in financial reports.
- Review and ensures key balance sheet metrics are reported consistently across different regulatory and internal reporting schedules (cross-report validation, accuracy and control).
Commercial Evaluation
- Assesses cost proposals and internal initiatives with a focus on financial value and trade-offs.
- Builds financial models to compare options and quantify outcomes using structured frameworks.
- Collaborates with business units to understand operational needs and ensures financial considerations are incorporated early in decision-making.
- Identifies risks and opportunities in proposals and provides clear summaries that help influence decisions.
- Can challenge inputs or assumptions constructively and recommend alternative approaches.
Example: Works with operations and IT to evaluate whether to automate a high-volume manual process, including modelling upfront technology investment, expected headcount reduction, and sensitivity to transaction volumes
Processes
- BPO Process for T&O and Functions Operation
People & Talent
- Customer Focus
- Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- Able to understand and meet the clients needs, enhancing customer satisfaction and fostering long-term relationships.
- Clarity and Guidance
- Providing direction, delegating and removing obstacles to get work done.
- Able to give clarity and guidance by effectively communicating expectations, providing clear direction, and offering support to ensure team members understand their roles and responsibilities
- Brevity and Communication
- Conveying information clearly and concisely, ensuring messages are understood quickly and effectively.
- Able to communicate complex financial information in a clear, tailored way for non-financial audiences.
- Story Telling
- Skill of crafting and conveying narratives that engage, inform, and inspire audiences effectively.
- Able to articulate the vision and strategic direction of the cost finance function through powerful and inspiring stories that resonate with all levels of the organization.
- Action Oriented
- Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, energy and enthusiasm.
- Able to proactively tackle challenges, initiate tasks, and drive results efficiently, ensuring swift progress and achievement of objectives..
Risk Management
- A mature finance profession with relevant experience in financial services industry
- Experienced in corporate banking products, booking models, accounting treatments
- Sound understanding of cost management, cost performance reporting and understanding of cost booking and allocations practices
- A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, multitask, lead through ambiguities, influence where he/she does not have direct authority & build on unstructured formative situations
- A leader, a team player with the management ability and track record to secure the confidence and respect of the peers, stakeholders and the executive management team.
- Strong Analytical and Strategic mindset, coupled with a thorough understanding of business performance management outcomes
- Should have worked in a business finance function with strong FP&A background.
- Ability to understand and connect business drivers and rationale for and application of those relevant to the Performance management process.
- Significant experience of working with senior management team and of interfacing with and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong ability to understand financial statements and its drivers and synthesize them into meaningful analyses as required. Develop analysis & interpretations as required to facilitate management decision making.
- Ability to culturally orient in diverse & international team environment and lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams.
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
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Serve as a Director of the Board
- Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Associatio
Key stakeholders
- Tech CFOs and Tech BAU BPO Leads and SPOCs
- T&O and Functions FP& A
- T&O and Functions Process Excellence
Qualifications
- A mature finance profession with relevant experience in financial services industry
- Experienced in corporate banking products, booking models, accounting treatments
- Sound understanding of cost management, cost performance reporting and understanding of cost booking and allocations practices
- A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner
- Ability to work effectively under pressure, multitask, lead through ambiguities, influence where he/she does not have direct authority & build on unstructured formative situations
- A leader, a team player with the management ability and track record to secure the confidence and respect of the peers, stakeholders and the executive management team.
- Strong Analytical and Strategic mindset, coupled with a thorough understanding of business performance management outcomes
- Should have worked in a business finance function with strong FP&A background.
- Ability to understand and connect business drivers and rationale for and application of those relevant to the Performance management process.
- Significant experience of working with senior management team and of interfacing with and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Strong ability to understand financial statements and its drivers and synthesize them into meaningful analyses as required. Develop analysis & interpretations as required to facilitate management decision making.
- Ability to culturally orient in diverse & international team environment and lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills And Experience
- Financial Analysis
- Strategy and Planning
- Performance Management
- Influencing and Advisory
- Commercial Evaluation
- Core Human Skills (Customer Focus, Clarity and Guidance, Brevity and Communication, Story Telling, Action Oriented)
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.
