Branch Operations Manager

Standard Chartered India; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 650,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Medical and life insurance

Retirement savings plan

Wellbeing platform

Job summary

Standard Chartered India seeks an experienced branch operations specialist to oversee daily transaction approvals, manage service delivery across counters, and ensure compliance and reconciliation processes.

You will supervise staff, monitor KPIs, and support risk management in line with group policies, contributing to branch performance and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Graduation or postgraduate degree.
• Experience: 3–4 years in banking/branch operations.
• Knowledge of banking operations and controls.
• Demonstrated leadership and people management abilities.
• Excellent communication and customer service focus.

Responsibilities

• Approve daily transactions for listed products and capex limits.
• Monitor service delivery, queue times and branch workflow for efficiency.
• Track customer satisfaction and drive continuous improvement.
• Perform regular reconciliation, audits and compliance activities.
• Ensure security, archiving and proper handling of sensitive items.

Education

Graduate/ Postgraduate

3-4 years of overall experience

Banking operations knowledge

Leadership skills

Strong Communication Skills

Customer and Service Orientation

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Approve daily transactions for selected products as applicable (e.g. travellers cheques, cashier's orders, currency exchange, merchant services, safe boxes) as well as transactions exceeding specified teller limits
• Manage Service Delivery – observe queue time and length; take action as needed to capacities serving counters and/or managing customer traffic. Ensure that branch premises are maintained to the specified standard. Manage or recommend workflow changes for greater efficiency, improve turnaround time
• Monitor customer satisfaction survey ratings, net promoter score or any other survey/ feedback ratings taken from customers and ensure continuous improvement if below benchmark, sustain and better-quality service
• General Reconciliation and Compliance Activities (may be individually assigned) which may typically include:
• Dual control of Cash functions
• Control of Security stationary, deliverables
• Review of processing entries and vouchers
• Follow-up with customers for returned deliverables as applicable (eg. chequebooks/ cards/ Pins/ Combi packs, etc)
• Review of reconciliation proofs for daily control as well as surprise audit proofing
• Preparation of service quality and productivity management reports and other regulatory returns
• Rectification of internal control issues
• Ensure satisfactory ratings in all internal/external audits conducted at the branch
• Ensure compliance to all Operations health documents like KCD/KRI/OPS manual, process notes and circulars issued from time to time. Perform regular KCS checks mandated. Mandatory reporting of KRIs and teller productivity
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of all returns both internal and statutory for sales and service
• Ensure a proper control of Keys, combination settings and passwords that protect cash & valuables.
• Ensure accurate and timely processing of all customer instructions as per applicable processes/ circulars
• Ensure the he/ she is fully aware of all the policies and procedures issued in relation to ORMA, Group Code of Conduct, KYC/CDD/EDD and Money laundering prevention. He/she must ensure compliance with these policies and procedures on an ongoing basis. Any suspicious transaction must immediately be reported as per guidelines
• Staff Supervision, Coaching and Training: daily organization of workflow/ breaks and staff levels and coaching/ training where necessary for improved performance
• Sales Referrals: where relevant, identify prospects for cross-selling from observation of customer transactions to highlight to sales staff
• Achieve high employee engagement and satisfaction. Ensure optimum teller productivity
• Contribute to branch performance through referrals, efficient customer service, effective operations controls
• Monitor and track transaction volumes and ensure effective transaction migration to alternate channels of banking
• He/she is aware of bank’s Mis-selling & Sales Policies and ensure adherence all the time.
• Premises management in areas of merchandising, housekeeping as well as store management. Branch upkeep and maintenance
• Responsible for health and safety for all. As part of the Health and Safety guidelines you should:
• Take reasonable care for the health and safety of co-workers and those who may be affected by your actions or your omissions; Co-operate with Management to support and promote Health and safety in the workplace;
• Ensure that your actions do not put others at risk; Work in a healthy and safe manner;
• Encourage others to work in a healthy and safe manner;
• Report all accidents and incidents and bring to the attention of the management any hazard in the workplace
• As a manager you are also responsible for the health and safety aspects within your area of control. You need to ensure that:
• Your employees are adequately trained and supervised to perform their tasks in a safe manner and are free to raise any Health and safety issues and these issues are addressed appropriately.
• The contractors working in your area or for you are working in a safe & healthy manner.
• Ownership of the Archival portfolio for the branch. Liaising with the external vendors and ensuring archival and retrieval is carried out in a manner as stated in the policy document without exception.
• Maintain MIS with regard to documents archived with due acknowledgement from the vendor for each of the file.

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.

Skills And Experience

• Addressing Customer Needs
• Anti-money Laundering Policies and Procedures
• Customer Interaction
• Customer Retention
• Customer Support Policies, Standards and Procedures
• Teller Functions

Qualifications

• Graduate/ Postgraduate
• At least 3-4 years of overall experience
• Banking operations knowledge
• Leadership skills
• Strong Communication Skills
• Customer and Service Orientation

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.

We offer:

• 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.