JOB SUMMARY
- The Senior Manager, Corporate Coverage is responsible for reporting, analytics & business performance of the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) Corporate client franchise.
- Execution of this role will require a deep understanding of SCB Financial Reporting & Business Intelligence systems coupled with a strong understanding of P&L and Balance sheet drivers of a banking business. The role also requires familiarity with how clients procure & utilise banking products throughout their life cycle.
- This role will also have support & delivery responsibilities for Management Information (MI) and actionable insight regarding, and not limited to, Cross Sell, Sub-Optimal RWA, Leverage, Client on/offboarding, wallet share capture & analysis, and client advisory.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
- Act as a senior business advisor to deliver business insights and high impact, executive ready analysis to drive performance and enable management decisions
- Thorough understanding of the underlying drivers of Corporate clients to regularly present opportunities and levers to drive revenue and returns performance.
- Active awareness and thought leadership on market trends/industry developments to deliver robust competitor benchmarking & peer analysis and understand performance against peers
- Influence business strategies regarding client behaviour & profitability to optimize our market position
- Spearhead deep dives and strategic initiatives to drive continuous improvements of the bank’s returns
Business
- Lead the annual corporate plan and target setting process for the Corporate Coverage, liaising with CIB & Group FP&A, Treasury, Regional and Country business heads to ensure a robust business plan with sufficient challenge and rigor.
- Link the business plan to the overall business strategy and scorecard metrics and ensure full visibility and transparency on performance across all metrics.
- Partner with senior leaders to drive and deliver on performance management reporting and analytics through high-quality executive ready decks
Processes
- Support the CFO Corporate Coverage in setting broader team priorities and initiatives, adopting an ‘agile’ approach to book of work management and prioritization, tracking team commitments and deliverables towards the collective goals.
- Build Awareness and understanding of bank’s data architecture and collaborate with relevant Digital MI teams to solve for analytics requirements.
- Drive process improvement, efficiency and resolving core business issues in the team
- Ensure highest quality of the reports produced by the team, whilst being on top of relevant processes and timelines end to end.
- Review various financial processes done by other Finance teams, to ensure that the quality is not compromised.
- Be on top of all financial activities end to end - Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting, Management reporting, Financial Analysis, Variance Analysis, Headcount reporting, Efficiency tracking, Accounting & Closing and other FP&A activities.
People & Talent
- Engagement with senior stakeholders like Coverage CFO, Cluster Heads & Coverage Chief of Staff
- Role model behaviours within the CIB Finance team, lead through influence
Risk Management
- Ensure effective reporting controls in place to prevent errors to due misstatement or omission of material financial information
Governance
- Participate in shaping the CIB & Segment governance, reporting and delivery
- Ensure broader finance teams align to these frameworks
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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key Stakeholders
- CFO Corporate Coverage
- CFO Client Coverage & Sustainability
- Chief of Staff Corporate Coverage
- Regional Coverage Cluster Heads
- GFS & Other GCFO Teams
Our Ideal Candidate
- Chartered Accountant or MBA with 10 years of relevant finance experience in FP&A
- Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management
- Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
Role Specific Technical Competencies
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- MS Application (excel, PowerPoint)
- PMI, PSGL & SCB BI Systems
- Stakeholder Management
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.
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