Associate Manager

Job Summary

The successful candidate will be responsible to support Cost FP&A Lead and responsible for the delivery of all FP&A to support cost performance management requirements within CIB. Play a pivotal part in managing and optimizing our organization's financial resources through comprehensive cost control measures and in-depth data analysis. The ideal candidate will possess a strong technical proficiency in Excel, PPT, coupled with a deep understanding of financial principles and the ability to extract complex datasets.

Key Responsibilities

Business Support

• Ensure that MI is produced in a timely and accurate manner to enable strategic decision making
• Understand drivers for cost performance; drilldown & analyse the cost across actuals and plan
• In-depth understanding of cost reporting structure, processes, and systems
• Participate, support & implement in the hierarchy aligned reporting requirements using a robust process which will cater to dynamic demand environments
• Participate in the coordination and support during forecasting, budgeting and monthly reporting cycles with product and segment finance heads and Regional / Country finance functions
• Support the central CCIB cost function in providing CCIB cost related inputs towards WFRs, MBRs, Group Finance reporting requirements etc
• Participate and support to ensure impact on business performance outcomes is managed due to change in upstream or downstream processes and systems

Strategy

• Support the Cost Lead for monthly reportings

Business

• Finance

Processes

• Plan to Perform

Key stakeholders

• CCIB Cost FP&A Lead
• CFO, their teams & Regional finance teams
• CCIB COO, CEO, their Group & Regional teams
• GFS / P2P counterparts
• Allocation Cost group

Other Responsibilities

• A mature finance profession with relevant experience in financial services industry
• Sound understanding of cost management, cost performance reporting and understanding of cost booking and allocations practices
• A high degree of integrity and ability to challenge the views and actions of others in a constructive manner
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, multitask, lead through ambiguities, influence where he/she does not have direct authority & build on unstructured formative situations
• Should have worked in a business finance function with strong FP&A background.
• Ability to understand and connect business drivers and rationale for and application of those relevant to the Performance management process.

Skills and Experience

• Financial Planning & Analysis
• MS Application (excel, PowerPoint)
• PSGL/ Financial Analytics/ MRC/ HP/ HPCM
• Stakeholder Management
• Tableaux/ DATAIKU

Qualifications

• Qualified Professional with Financial Services background (Banking preferred) - 3 years+ PQE
• Good time management skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and capability for self-directed research and work
• A curious and enquiring mind, want to learn and grow as this role evolves over time.
• Technically hands on experience in excel, SAP, PPT,

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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