Senior Manager - WRB Cost Analytics

Job Description

This job is with Standard Chartered Bank, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, WRB - Cost Standard Reporting Operations, is a critical role in WRB Costs - Centre of Excellence (CoE) team, that owns the overall cost management agenda for all markets in the SCB WRB footprint.

The selected individual will primarily support the WRB Business and Finance teams in the timely & accurate production of standard monthly reports, enhance cost transparency, manage book close, cost flash and month-end outlook.

Business

• Manage month end reporting process, including closure of books & finalization of outlook
• Preparation of outlook based on key variances & known trends
• Drive better understanding & transparency of costs
• Incorporate impact from internal / external changes into plan/ forecast
• Enhance cost transparency through standard monthly MI

• Continuously reviewing processes to identify opportunities for efficiencies & improvements.
• Creating automated reports / self-serve dashboards
• Drive standardization & controls through management of the cost centre hierarchy
• Work with colleagues across the Global Financial Service (GFS) function to ensure co-operation and smooth operations.
• Focus and build a culture of continuous process improvement, standardization of procedures, and implementation of a robust control framework
• Understand the changing data requirement landscape with a forward-looking focus

Key Responsibilities

• Act in a timely manner to identify, asses, control and mitigate potential operational risk items to the Group relevant to WRB finance processes.

• 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.

• Global Head, WRB Financial Planning & Analysis
• Global Head, WRB Cost Management
• Group WRB Cost team and India Costs CoE
• Lead WRB BPO team

• MBA, CA, CFA, ACCA with a minimum of 8 years of experience (post qualification), preferably in the Financial Planning & Analytics area

Additionally, the following skills sets are a key to success of the incumbent:

• Experience in managing costs for a global organisation in a matrix environment
• Experience in managing teams in a fast faced dynamic work environment
• Good working knowledge in management reporting, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.
• Experienced in financial and profitability modelling and translation of results for management decision-making.
• Advanced or expert skills to prepare presentations for senior management - ability to translate complex financial information into visually impactful representations for senior management
• Analytical and strong sense of need to upload integrity of financial information.
• Proactively question and improve status quo, think outside the box to improve productivity, data accuracy and reporting process.
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills, forming positive working relationship in the multicultural environment.
• Should have strong knowledge and understanding of data management, data quality and its linkage in driving business performance management.

• Performance Management
• Manage People
• Strategy & Execution
• Risk & Controls
• Regulatory & Compliance

About Standard Chartered

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.

• 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

• 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.