Specialist - Accounting & Controls

Standard Chartered India; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered India is seeking a strategic finance professional to lead R2R alignment and process efficiency within the close cycle. The role emphasizes governance, risk awareness, and cross-geography stakeholder collaboration.

Key duties include driving R2R improvements, ensuring timely close, and highlighting delays with mitigation plans. A strong background in finance, control, and SAP tools is essential.

Qualifications

• B.Com & MBA with 7+ years of experience in financial process environments.
• CA/ICWA qualification with 4+ years of experience in finance and governance.
• Proficiency with S4 Hana and PSGL is preferred, plus advanced Excel/Outlook skills.

Responsibilities

• Focus on Process Efficiency and align to the Record to Close (R2R) processes.
• Enable cross‑geography stakeholder management and governance.
• Drive continuous efficiency improvements in R2R activities and publish status across close cycles.

Skills

S4 Hana

PSGL

Microsoft Excel

Outlook

AI tools Co-pilot

PPT

Education

B.COM & MBA With 7 Years Experience

CA / ICWA With 4 Years Of Expereince

Job description

Strategy

Focus on Process Efficiency and align to the Record to Close (R2R) processes

• Ability to connect to the big picture
• Ensure to achieve efficiency in processes, quality and cost.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Focus on Process Efficiency and align to the Record to Close (R2R) processes

• Ability to connect to the big picture
• Ensure to achieve efficiency in processes, quality and cost.

Business

• Effective stakeholder management for respective processes across geographies

Processes

• Ensuring that continuous efficiency improvement in R2R activities and an established process exists to constantly identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Bring Process Transparency

People & Talent

• Nurture Team bonding and team engagement

Risk Management

• Highlight delays & related impact considering inter dependencies
• Provide insights and brainstorm the mitigation measures with respective function leads

  Governance

  • Monitor & track progress of all activities scheduled/completed/ongoing during the close period through out
  • Publish the RAG status for all critical activities across the close cycle
  • Drive initiatives towards Fast Closure of books

  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

  • Country HR Service Delivery
  • GFS teams like P 2 P, IM, R2R and other support functions.
  • Financial Controllers or Head of Finance in the country
  • Group Finance Operational Risk.

  Skills And Experience

  • S4 Hana
  • PSGL
  • Microsoft excel and outlook
  • AI tools [Co-pilot]
  • PPT

  Qualifications

  • B.COM & MBA With 7 Years Experience
  • CA / ICWA With 4 Years Of Expereince

  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.