Senior Manager - Controls and Governance, PR&RR

Standard Chartered; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered in Bengaluru, India, seeks a Senior Manager - Controls and Governance to lead Regulatory reporting and drive liquidity analytics across groups. You will partner with Finance, Risk, Treasury and business lines to ensure accurate metrics and timely reporting.

You will mentor GCFO liquidity reporting teams, implement robust governance, and steer change initiatives while upholding the highest ethics and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Good understanding of bank balance sheet and liquidity/funding risk measures.
• Strong knowledge of liquidity risk metrics: LCR/NSFR/PRA110/ALMM.
• Familiar with regulatory policy for liquidity risk data: BCBS 239.
• Experience driving change and partnering with stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to work independently or collaboratively.
• Familiar with SQL for data interrogation.
• Working knowledge of Excel and Python; automation tools helpful.
• Knowledge of Regulatory Systems such as Moody’s and Axiom desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior member of the Regulatory reporting function and drive accuracy and insights across liquidity metrics.
• Maintain strong stakeholder relationships with Group liquidity, treasury and business lines to manage liquidity within limits.
• Ensure reporting processes are efficient, accurate, complete, with KPIs and governance.
• Mentor junior GCFO liquidity reporting team and foster cross-country collaboration.
• Articulate liquidity metrics and advise senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, and Treasury.
• Represent GCFO governance in change initiatives and decide on technology and operating model.

Education

MBA (Fin) / CA / master’s in finance/accountancy/economics

Undergraduate degree in Science / Engineering / Commerce

FRM / CFA (advantage)

Tools

SQL

Moody’s

Axiom

Excel

Python

Job description

Senior Manager - Controls and Governance, PR&RR

Strategy

• Senior team member of Regulatory reporting function and contribute to 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 demonstrated, reviewed & 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

• Providing guidance, training and mentorship to the junior team members within 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.

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

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in financial reporting / Regulatory Reporting / Treasury / Balance Sheet management / Product control / Financial Planning & Analysis / Risk Management.
• MBA (Fin) / CA / master’s 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 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.