Manager, Regulatory Reporting

ACCA Careers; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Wellbeing programs

Learning & development

Job summary

Standard Chartered Bank in Malaysia seeks a mature Finance Regulation specialist to manage regulatory reporting and governance. You will coordinate with country finance teams to ensure timely and accurate BNM and MAS submissions, while supporting cross-functional projects and system improvements.

The role requires a finance background with regulatory reporting exposure, strong analytical skills, and fluency in English and Bahasa Malaysia.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting/ACCA/CPA is required.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in finance or regulatory reporting.
• Experience in banking environment and/or audits is preferred.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting and finance systems.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia and English.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with stakeholders from various functions to ensure compliance with Bank Negara requirements.
• Prepare and review regulatory reports (BNM and MAS) in accordance with applicable standards.
• Develop performance analytics, identify variances and propose resolutions.
• Collaborate to develop new regulatory reporting templates and address data dependencies.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to obtain information required by Bank Negara and others.
• Identify and resolve accounting and regulatory reporting issues; complete remediation and restatement work.
• Review and update procedures and desk operating instructions.
• Assist in development and maintenance of group finance systems.
• Participate in group projects with finance systems implications.
• Review workflow and re-engineer processes for efficiency.
• Support ad-hoc activities and Bank-wide initiatives including SC Saadiq Berhad.

Skills

Accounting & Finance Knowledge

Excel skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/ Accounting / ACCA / CPA

5 years of experience in finance/regulatory reporting

Banking environment/audit exposure

Professional qualifications in accounting/finance advantageous

Bahasa Malaysia in SPM and English

Job description

• Liaise with stakeholders from various functions to ensure the compliance with Bank Negara requirement.

Standard Chartered Bank

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

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Business

• Liaise with stakeholders from various functions to ensure the compliance with Bank Negara requirement.

Processes

• Prepare and review regulatory reports (both local BNM and MAS reporting) in accordance to applicable reporting standards, to ensure reports are accurate, compliant and submit on time.
• Prepare and conduct performance analytics, identify variances and find resolutions, to ensure that report submissions are robust and accurate.
• Discuss, provide feedback and develop new regulatory reporting templates (whenever required) with line manager. Identify upstream and downstream dependencies and engage accordingly for necessary data/ information.
• Coordinate with stakeholders from various functions to obtain information required by Bank Negara and others.
• Identify and resolve accounting and (regulatory) reporting issues and complete remediation and restatement work for any returns requiring resubmission.
• Review and document procedures and ensure that desk operating instructions and procedures are up-to-date at all times.
• Assist in the development of new group systems or regulatory reporting systems and maintenance/ continuous development of the existing finance systems.
• Participate in Group projects which have finance systems implications.
• To continuously review the team’s current workflow methodology and re-engineer processes to derive optimum output.
• To support the Bank’s ad-hoc activities.
• Responsibility also extends to activities supporting Standard Chartered Saadiq Berhad.

Risk Management

• Refer to the above

Governance

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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 Finance Team, Group Reporting team (SG), GCFO team

Skills And Experience

• Accounting & Finance Knowledge
• Excel skills
• Communication skills

Qualifications

• Must possess at least a bachelor’s degree in Finance/ Accounting / ACCA / CPA qualification
• At least 5 years of solid and related working experience is required.
• Working experience in banking environment and/or audit firms is required.
• Exposure to regulatory reporting and systems and good knowledge and understanding of the finance function.
• Professional qualifications in accounting/finance would have definite advantage.
• Strong communicator with analytical mindset.
• Minimum Credit in Bahasa Malaysia in SPM and English

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.

Posting End Date: 06/10/2026.

Candidates must be resident in Malaysia, or have the right to work in Malaysia.