Senior Vice President

Job ID: 37785

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 26 Aug 2025

• Communication with the various stakeholders at all levels – at appropriate forums – including PWGs, scrum meetings, team huddles etc.
• Work closely with formal and informal project sponsors to identify & remove roadblocks in a timely manner.
• Follow up with various task owners to ensure the timely completion of tasks and any delays or risks are reported / escalated.
• Constructively challenge and present viable alternatives to business models, operational processes and the interpretation of relevant rules and regulations whilst continually looking to minimise regulatory risk and the ongoing cost of finance operations.
• Facilitate the defining and agreeing of solutions to drive effectiveness and efficiency with representatives from key Business and Technology stakeholders

• 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.
• Lead the ASPIRE Subledger & General Ledger to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

• Senior Program/Project Managers across ASPIRE and impacted downstream
• T&I teams – including Development, Infrastructure streams
• Global Process Owners, Auditors
• Finance GPO team
• GCFO COO MT
• Product Vendor Teams
• Leads from internal and external programmes (E.g. BCBS 239)

• EDUCATION: Chartered Accountant / Cost accountant (CMA & CFM)
• CERTIFICATIONS: Six Sigma or equivalent certification

• 15+ years of experience in a business facing project management role
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with prior experience in running war-rooms or test-focused working groups
• Domain knowledge in Finance (core ledger, sub-ledger) and/or Financial regulatory projects with a good financial background.
• Familiarity with SDLC and strong insights on various project lifecycle phases, methodology and tools
• Experience with waterfall & agile methodologies
• Proactive, self-starter, autonomous & highly organised

• 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.