Regional Lead, E&A / AME Liquidity Reporting

Standard Chartered India; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,000,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank (India) seeks an experienced professional to manage the regulatory reporting function, driving accuracy across liquidity metrics and RWA. You will collaborate with Group, Country, Business and Change teams to optimize reporting, while ensuring governance and data quality in regulatory submissions.

You will lead a team, partner with GCFO liquidity reporting, and guide stakeholders across Finance, Risk and Treasury to meet regulatory requirements with integrity and

Qualifications

• Experience in financial reporting and regulatory reporting for banking clients.
• Proven ability to manage liquidity risk metrics and regulatory data governance.
• Experience driving change initiatives with cross-functional stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage regulatory reporting deliverables in line with regulatory requirements and provide insights across liquidity metrics.
• Analyze and quantify regulatory liquidity risk impact of transactions; liaise with Group, Country and Business teams.
• Ensure reporting accuracy, establish governance, and drive process improvements and automation.
• Plan resources, mentor the GCFO liquidity reporting team and build cross-country collaboration.
• Engage with senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Treasury and Business to address liquidity metrics.
• Represent the function in governance forums and influence change backlog prioritisation and technology choices.

Skills

Liquidity metrics

Regulatory reporting

Stakeholder management

SQL

Advanced Excel

Python

Regulatory systems

People leadership

Communication skills

Education

MBA (Fin) / CA / Masters in Finance/Accountancy/Economics

Undergraduate degree in Science / Engineering / Commerce

FRM / CFA (added advantage)

Tools

Moody’s

Axiom

Job description

Responsible to manage Regulatory reporting function and its deliverables in accordance with Regulatory requirements and provider greater insights across all Liquidity metrics submitted to the stakeholders. Work across Group, Country, Business and Change teams with an aim to improve accuracy of reporting and drive initiatives to optimize Liquidity and RWA thereby contributing to improve Group RoTE.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Responsible to manage Regulatory reporting function and its deliverables in accordance with Regulatory requirements and provider greater insights across all Liquidity metrics submitted to the stakeholders. Work across Group, Country, Business and Change teams with an aim to improve accuracy of reporting and drive initiatives to optimize Liquidity and RWA thereby contributing to improve Group RoTE.

Business

• Responsible for analysis and quantification of regulatory and behavioural liquidity risk impact of transactions undertaken by business units. Maintain strong stakeholder relationship with Group liquidity, treasury and business lines to manage liquidity withing constraints. Support business in the monitoring of key liquidity/funding metrics to maintain liquidity/funding levels within prescribed limits.

Processes

• Ensure the operational efficiency, accuracy and completeness of the reports are monitored with appropriate KPIs. Establish robust control and governance on the reporting process including the requirements to manage report quality and operational control. This includes expected data quality monitoring required in the reporting standards for regulatory reporting. Continuously strive for process improvement with standardisation, simplification and automation.

People & Talent

• Planning and allocating resources effectively to meet reporting deadlines and regulatory requirements. Developing the team to build capacity and elevate team capabilities at pace with evolving regulatory and business demand. Providing guidance, training and mentorship to the GCFO liquidity reporting team on technical knowledge, best practices, and technologies. Building relationships to improve collaboration across country and GCFO functions to resolve issues and implement changes for liquidity reporting.

Risk Management

• Candidate needs to be able to articulate the Liquidity metrics and drive the discussion with Senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Treasury and Business to meet the requirements. Provide Consultation/Support in dealing with business queries relating to Liquidity metrics, all other internal and external Liquidity regulatory reports

Governance

• Monitor and ensure that appropriate Change governance is followed across all transformation initiatives. Represent the function at the governance forums in place for tracking change initiatives and influence decisions in respect of the change backlog, prioritisation, choice of technology tools and the operating model.

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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders

• GPO/GPM, Liquidity
• Group Regulatory Reporting – Head and Reporting Leads
• Credit and Market Risk functions – Functional Heads and Leads
• Liquidity Change Management - Head and Leads across Liquidity Change
• Country Regulatory Reporting – CFO, Financial Controller and Country Leads
• Partner within BSM Liquidity, GCFO team and Stakeholders to Build domain expertise in the areas of Balance Sheet Management, Liquidity Risk Management, Interest Rate Risk Management, Fund Transfer Pricing, Benchmarking & Stress Test Data Framework, and the relevant policies, procedures, and practice guides, and regulatory reporting guidelines including Basel III.

Skills And Experience

• Good understanding of bank’s balance sheet, financial statements and able to co-relate to liquidity / funding risk measures / regulatory reporting.
• Strong knowledge of liquidity risk metrics such as LCR/ NSFR/ PRA110/ALMM and internal liquidity stress measures
• Candidate must be familiar with regulatory policy requirement for liquidity risk measures and data management - BCBS 239
• Experience in driving change initiatives and able to effectively partner with stakeholders within & outside of the immediate team
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Candidate must be familiar with the use of SQL to interrogate and extract the data for analysis.
• Working knowledge of Advanced Excel, Python and other automation tools is an added benefit
• Knowledge on Regulatory Systems such as Moody’s, Axiom is desired
• People Leadership

Qualifications

• Minimum of 14 years of work experience in Financial reporting / Regulatory Reporting / Treasury / Balance Sheet management / Product control / Financial Planning & Analysis / Risk Management.
• MBA (Fin) / CA / Masters in Finance/Accountancy/Economics or affiliated subjects
• Undergraduate degree in Science / Engineering / Commerce.
• Professional Certification such as FRM / CFA will be an added advantage.

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.