Associate Manager, Product Control

Standard Chartered; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered in Bengaluru hosts the Central PC Controls team responsible for end-to-end FM P&L product and valuation control functions within GBS. The Head of Central PC Controls coordinates with Line PC across FM, GBS, and PC senior management in Bangalore & Singapore to deliver objectives.

The role covers strategy, business, processes, and risk management, focusing on control robustness, regulatory conduct, and stakeholder management in a dynamic global bank environment.

Qualifications

• MBA/CA/CFA/ACCA with a minimum of 3+ years of experience in financial services.
• Control mindset and ability to identify, mitigate and close control gaps.
• Good understanding of financial market products.

Responsibilities

• Review/reconcile reports, management packs and ad hoc reports.
• Post month-end journals for accruals, provisions and true ups.
• Maintain high quality of work and standards across processes.
• Support change initiatives and conduct UAT for system enhancements or migrations.
• Ensure adherence to SLAs, KPIs and firm-wide policies.
• Identify and manage risks and control breakdowns.
• Develop and maintain standardized processes, including DOIs.
• Perform data reconciliations and test cases for system migrations.
• Quarterly substantiation of Financial Market balance sheet; IFRS 9 classifications.

Education

MBA

CA

CFA

ACCA

Control mindset and ability to identify and mitigate and control gaps

Good understanding of financial market products

Job description

The Central PC Controls team is accountable for delivery of the end-to-end FM P&L (Financial Markets) product & valuation control functions in GBS and manage different strategic initiatives for FM PC.
The Head of Central PC Controls works closely with the Line PC across FM , GBS and the PC senior management team in Bangalore & Singapore to deliver the objectives of the function.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Review/Prepare various reconciliation reports, management packs and adhoc reports.
• Posting of month end Journals for accrual, provision and true up.
• Take responsibility for the quality of work submitted and ensure that the highest standards are maintained.

Business

• Support change project initiatives and conduct User Acceptance Testing for enhancements to current systems or migration to new system.
• Ensure adherence to SLA's, KPI’s, Internal metrics & FMG wide policies.
• Identify/ manage risk and control breakdowns.
• Develop & maintain effective and standard processes. Maintain DOI's.
• Perform the reconciliations between different data sets for the migration of systems.
• Perform the testing for all the test cases and highlighted the results in time to the management.
• Quarterly substantiation of Financial Market balance sheet.
• IFRS 9 classification of financial instruments, off balance sheet, and liabilities classification.

Processes

• Responsible for running controls between system for Terada migration to Hadoop,
• Testing of the results and sharing with senior management within the central team.
• Communicate with the program team on regular intervals on the update of the migration.

Risk Management

• Ensure appropriate controls and reviews are maintained for Daily P&L production, Core reconciliations, Month end close and Balance sheet substantiation.

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, elevate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Regular face off with in PC various line teams, Product Control Management, Regional finance team and various internal stakeholders within GFS.
• Act as a point of reference for team members and internal clients.
• Manage relationship with internal stakeholders, take regular feedback, anticipate, and understand issues and elevate appropriately for timely resolution
• Manage strong relationship with support teams (IT, Operations and Risk) and bring synergies by interacting and integrating with cross functional teams

Qualifications

Education

• MBA, CA, CFA, ACCA with a minimum of 3+ years of experience (post qualification) in a financial service industry.
• Control mindset and ability to identify and mitigate and control gaps
• Good understanding of financial market products

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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.