Head of Performance Management

Job Summary

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Branch's business strategy and model in the light of the Group's Strategy

Business

• Lead various Projects that the Branch undertakes as representative of Finance department. 
• Australia Branch is on a journey to becoming a self-funded/ full-fledged branch. This requires running multiple projects for migrating loans (from other SCB centres to AU branch), new system implementations, utilisation of local deposits to funding loans, etc. This role requires to be at the forefront of all the projects
• Monitor and highlight any Operational control issues to appropriate forums like CRC, CMT or ALCO. 
• Perform all the Financial Reporting to internal (GIA, Management Teams) and external stakeholders (APRA, ABS, external Audit). 
• Oversight over all Financial Controls activities like substantiation and reconciliation of accounts.

Processes

• Support Country Asset Liability Committee (ALCO) through secretarial activities including conducting the meetings as well as preparation of materials
• Support the Country Management Team (CMT) meetings by providing performance updates and highlight any significant financial matters for the CMT's deliberation
• Manage the reporting of financials to local regulatory authority APRA (quarterly and monthly returns) as well as the Group's head office
• Own the ledger of the branch (PSGL) by managing the closing of books on monthly basis
• Conduct Performance management activities like Budgeting, Forecasting per the required cycles as well as reporting in PMI and providing variance analysis Support the monthly business review (MBR) activities.
• Contribute to the various projects being run in the country to help achieve the Branch's objective of being a full-fledged branch.
• Carry out Financial Controls activities like approving FCS substantiations, overseeing reconciliation of accounts and attending FORTMs

Key Responsibilities

Risk Management

• Involved in Management of all liquidity ratios like LCR, NSFR. 
• Management to include support the regular reporting and early alert of any management actions to be taken to prevent triggers. 
• To be involved in setting Risk metrics like VaR for the Australia Branch (once its applicable) with Group Market Risk Teams. 
• Help manage the metric on an ongoing basis once it is set.
• Prompt escalation of any risk events and provide solution to prevent future recurrence

Skills and Experience

Governance

• Managing the Country Addendums for any new products (required by Projects) by gathering all requirements which will help approvers in reviewing the CA. 
• Approving CAS for finance department.
• Ensure all processes are properly implemented.
• Monitor regulatory developments and assess the impact to regulatory reporting requirement.
• Ensure compliance of regulatory limits and reporting requirements
• Kept abreast with treasury/tax/legal/ regulatory changes and implement appropriate control procedures

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

• Country CEO, CFO and all business stakeholders

Qualifications

• Chartered Accountant by Qualification.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10 + Years of experience in either Finance or Banking
• Bank’s liquidity reporting knowledge such as LCR and NSFR
• Good stakeholders’ management skill
• Good leadership quality &Banking products knowledge

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Accountancy Expert
• Microsoft suite of products Advanced
• Regulatory Reporting Advanced
• Balance Sheet Management Advanced
• Performance Analysis Expert
• Liquidity 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 thingand 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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