Job Summary
- The Vice President, Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) is a key Leadership role within Business Performance Operations delivering Business partnering, Cluster head support and Country Performance management.
Broad areas covered within this role include
- End to End ownership for Cluster on business performance reporting and analytics requirements
- Strategic direction and oversight of creating and leveraging standardised Performance Reporting through digital assets
- Develop and implement agreed Finance Business Partnering support model to enable business in achieving their targets.
- Build target state organisation in line with Bank objectives
- Drive implementation of Bank's strategic initiatives, shaping the future design of processes and the requirements for the new technology.
- Strong understanding of CIB business and leadership skills with experience in leading high-performing teams.
Key Responsibilities
Business & Process Segment and Cluster /Country Performance management
- Develop an effective organisation structure, well balanced to achieve process standardisation and deliver specialist business / functions advisory capability
- Ongoing re-calibration of cluster operating model and invest in talent to balance efficient standard process delivery along with content driven analytics and decision support
- Drive Business support for Reporting, Planning, and analytics to support business growth
- Deliver organisational synergy through CoE's enabling bandwidth to create SMEs to support change delivery and other value-added outcomes
- Partner with Business Heads and CFOs to drive and manage Country Performance for Cluster / Country performance management
- Deliver transition of all processes to new Financial Reporting and Planning systems
- Build high performance Business Finance teams driving global standard, optimised service offerings
- Drive Centralised and Standardised processes through targeted Transitions and creating optimal Operating model across countries
- Drive Continuous Improvement in the DNA of the team which delivers efficiency.
- Support implementation of tools to contribute to finance organization design, outcomes, and requirements
People and Culture
- To lead, inspire and motivate the teams ensuring that everyone achieves their potential and that the team delivers its collective agenda
- Enhance overall culture of the organisation, with improved My Voice scores, through targeted actions
- Build and execute a People Engagement strategy that encompasses timely & relevant updates as well as social engagement to improve overall employee well being
- Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
- Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
- Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
Controls & Risk Management
- Represent BPO in-Service Review engagements with CFOs, provide management insights and address any CFO level actions from the Review meetings
- Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising and identify and manage forward looking risks.
- Through assignment of direct and indirect reports, establish and maintain an appropriate framework and procedures for monitoring, identifying, measuring, assessing, reporting, and managing compliance, regulatory, financial crime, operational and reputational risks
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.
- Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment]
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- Cluster CEOs & CFOs
- Country and Product CFOs
- Global Head, Business Performance Operations and Leadership team
- Finance Operations and Transformation
- Group & Country Finance
Other Responsibilities
- Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Global Financial Operations & Transformation Team.
- Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
Skills And Experience
- Knowledge of CIB Products
- Knowledge of Budgeting and Forecasting processes
Qualifications
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills in networking and influencing decisions taken in the business and in infrastructure teams.
- Strategic mindset and with a good understanding of FP&A activities pertaining to Corporate and Investment Banking business.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to make decisions.
- Excellent business judgment, operational control management and risk assessment.
- Experience in change and programme management and self-awareness to adopt varying approaches for different stakeholder dynamics.
- Experience of managing operational businesses and infrastructure teams
- Results orientation, exceptional energy, and ambition to drive systems, technology and process
- changes across geographies
- Strategic context with ability to work collaboratively within the Team and the Bank in formulating strategies involving sourcing and suppliers to deliver business value
- Strong team leadership & development skills to lead a motivated team with an ability to operate in complex multi-organisation, multi-country and multi-cultural environments
- Senior executive stakeholder management capability that provides strong collaboration with business and functional leaders.
- Possesses skill to leverage interpersonal abilities to influence others and skilfully build credibility with stakeholders
- Mental tenacity and analytical mind having the ability to take on tough and complex challenges yet remain calm and professional under pressure
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.
