Associate Manager, Product Control

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Job summary

Standard Chartered seeks a proficient finance change programme professional to drive end-to-end lifecycle activities, ensuring Sub Ledger data meets Finance requirements and upstream systems data is validated for accurate accounting outcomes.

You will coordinate with stakeholder teams across multiple locations, align business and technology partners, and perform testing to ensure successful delivery within banking IT environments.

Qualifications

• In-depth data analytics and SQL skills required.
• Experience in investment banking or product control is preferred.
• Strong ability to work with minimal supervision and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Involvement in all stages of change programme lifecycle from initiation to post-implementation.
• Ensure Sub Ledger Data supports Finance requirements.
• Validate upstream booking systems data for Finance use.
• Liaise with stakeholders across locations/time zones.
• Bridge Business and technology partners to meet requirements.
• Perform systems and user acceptance testing.
• Understand SAP enrichment logic and mapping for accounting outcomes.

Skills

Data analytics

SQL

Investment banking

Self-starter

Banking IT systems

Trade processing

GL entries

Education

Qualified accountant (CA/ACA/CIMA)

Job description

Strategy

• Involvement in all stages of change programme lifecycle, from initiation and design to post-implementation
• Ensure Sub Ledger Data can support Finance requirements.
• Validate upstream booking systems data as fit for Finance use.
• Liaise with stakeholders and team members across various locations and time zones.
• Link between Business teams and technology partners in ensuring delivery supports Business requirements.
• Performs systems and user acceptance testing.
• Understands how to configure SAP enrichment logic and mapping tables to achieve desired accounting outcome.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Groups 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

• Data Analytical Skills (includes SQL)
• Investment banking experience (finance or product control experience preferred)
• Strong self-starter with minimal need for guidance/supervision
• Detailed understanding of banking IT systems, including trade processing workflows, from trade booking to GL entries is essential

Qualifications

• Investment banking experience (finance or product control experience preferred)
• Project change/business analysis experience (exposure to both tactical and strategic solutions preferred)
• Qualified accountant (CA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) is preferred
• Experience in full change programme lifecycle/methodology, from initiation and design to post-implementation
• Detailed understanding of banking IT systems, including trade processing workflows, from trade booking to GL entries is essential
• Strong Data analysis skills (excel, access, sql)
• Able to perform gap analysis, identify and elevate issues and risks to the appropriate parties
• Strong self-starter with minimal need for guidance/supervision
• Ability to work in a team with good interpersonal skills
• Basic SQL knowledge is a must

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.