VP, Group FP&A Management Reporting

PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT:

•    Drive Group performance analytics and reporting that supports transparency, accountability, and informed decision making.
•    Partner with senior leaders to influence strategic direction and create commercial value through Insights
•    Demonstrate strong understanding of business drivers and its impact on performance reporting. Stay abreast of evolving business strategies to infer impact. 
•    Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning cycles including presentation and messaging to GMT and Board, to support decision making and approval of the plan. 
•    End to end ability to drive decisions through Analysis, hypothesize, articulation (messaging & content), Presentation (with options) to influence decisions. 
•    Champion process simplification and automation to improve financial efficiency and data accuracy.
•    Support efficiency transformation initiatives, regulatory demands, and operational resilience, while maintaining financial transparency.

People & Talent
•    Lead, coach and develop a high-performing finance team with strong business partnering, data driven insight, and technology fluency. 
•    Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture that supports innovation and continuous learning.
•    Partner with HR and Function leadership to understand workforce cost dynamics and future skills planning.
•    Build and execute a People Engagement strategy that encompasses timely & relevant updates as well as social engagement to improve overall employee well being
•    Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
•    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management

•    Ensure compliance with regulatory expectations for, financial controls, and governance. 
•    Provide financial leadership in audits, regulatory reviews, and operational risk management.
•    Maintain robust financial control frameworks and ensure alignment with internal and external policies. 
•    Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising and identify and manage forward looking risks. 

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.

Key stakeholders

•    Group & Country CEOs
•    Group & Country CFOs
•    Investor Relations
•    Business/Segment Finance teams (CIB, WRB and Treasury) MT-1
•    Finance Transformation and Operations
•    GCFO India cross functional team
•    Chief of Staff / BPMs of Group MT-1

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Global Financial Operations & Transformation Team.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

•    Experience in leading FP&A team with strong understanding on the concepts driving banking business
•    Strategic mindset and with a good understanding of Banking business. 
•    Strong analytical skills and ability to make decisions. 
•    Excellent business judgment, operational control management and risk assessment. 
•    Experience in change and programme management and self-awareness to adopt varying approaches for different stakeholder dynamics. 
•    Experience of managing operational businesses and infrastructure teams 
•    Results orientation, exceptional energy, and ambition to drive systems, technology and process
•    changes across geographies
•    Strategic context with ability to work collaboratively within the Team and the Bank in formulating strategies involving sourcing and suppliers to deliver business value
•    Strong team leadership & development skills to lead a motivated team – with an ability to operate in complex multi-organisation, multi-country and multi-cultural environments
•    Senior executive stakeholder management capability that provides strong collaboration with business and functional leaders.
•    Possesses skill to leverage interpersonal abilities to influence others and skilfully build credibility with stakeholders
•    Mental tenacity and analytical mind having the ability to take on tough and complex challenges, yet remain calm and professional under pressure.

•    Engagement & Influence
•    Delivery Ownership
•    Financial Analytics
•    Strategic Planning
•    Leadership
•    Industry/ Business knowledge
•    Process Expertise
•    People 

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

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.