Manager Subledger Operations PCVC

Job Summary

• Work collaboratively with various Finance teams at group and regional levels (incl. Product Control, Financial reporting, Finance Operations, Analytics & forecasting, Tax, treasury) and Data SME’s to understand data requirements and articulate them with Business, Technology and Operations.
• Actively engage with stakeholders (Business, Technology, Operations) to deliver appropriate solutions as per planned timelines.
• Perform Requirements gathering, create & own business artefacts (BRD/FSD, Functional, Interface & mapping specifications, Workflows & TOM)
• Assist Product Owner from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps are followed correctly and completely.
• Follow structured approach to project delivery, provide regular risk / issue updates to Scrum Master
• Work closely with delivery teams – Dev, Testing, Release & PMO teams to comply with PMS and SDF
• Ensure key delivery and implementation risks and issues are identified, and support establishment of appropriate mitigation or action plans throughout
• Delivery-focused, committing to specific tasks and ensuring these and the overall projects deadlines are met.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across SDLC and work closely with the PO to drive agile delivery.
• Plan & liaise with the Dev & QA teams by leading & tracking the progress of business requirements towards delivery.
• Perform brainstorming & ideate process improvement steps focusing on efficiency across Project & BAU deliverables.
  
  

This role requires strong business & data analysis skills, sound understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle, Basics of database concepts, SQL, an understanding of functional areas mentioned above to deliver stated business benefits.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Work collaboratively with various Finance teams at group and regional levels (incl. Product Control, Financial reporting, Finance Operations, Analytics & forecasting, Tax, treasury) and Data SME’s to understand data requirements and articulate them with Business, Technology and Operations.
  
  

Business

• Being Client Focus: Ensuring the business requirements, and proposed solutions, achieve the customers’ goals
  
  

Processes

• Perform Requirements gathering, create & own business artefacts (BRD/FSD, Functional, Interface & mapping specifications, Workflows & TOM)
• Assist Product Owner from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps are followed correctly and completely.
• Follow structured approach to project delivery, provide regular risk / issue updates to Scrum Master
• Collaborate with stakeholders across SDLC and work closely with the PO to drive agile delivery.
  
  

People & Talent

• Work closely with delivery teams – Dev, Testing, Release & PMO teams to comply with PMS and SDF
• Plan & liaise with the Dev & QA teams by leading & tracking the progress of business requirements towards delivery.
• Perform brainstorming & ideate process improvement steps focusing on efficiency across Project & BAU deliverables
  
  

Risk Management

• Documenting non-compliance areas and ensure appropriate Finance stakeholders sign-off specific reasons for non-compliance (for example, a system or booking model limitation)
• Keeping project team well informed of the design and execution dependencies within the programme and outside the programme.
• Acting as point of contact for data change related queries
  
  

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, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
  
  

Key stakeholders

• Technology Lead – Data Sourcing & Onboarding
• Workstream team members across Programme (Data, Tools, Core Finance, Local Regulatory, Treasury)
• Data Governance – DQMF, BCBS239
• Finance operation leads
• Product Controllers and Business CFO’s
• Treasury leads
• Information Technology and Operations
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Product Control accounting
• SQL / PLSQL
• Design & workflow knowledge
• Documentation tools (ADO, Jira, Confluence)
  
  

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of relevant experience in Product Control / Finance / Change Management roles
• Experience with vendor application SAP Master Data Governance
• Exposure to ETL tools, Data Sourcing, Data Quality (Cleansing, aggregation & enrichment), Data modelling & design, Data Transformation & integration
• Good understanding of reference data transformation, critical data elements, DQMF, BCBS239 Data governance
• Data Mining and Analysis experience using SQL
• Thorough understanding of Financial Markets, Retail Banking, Corporate and Institutional Banking, and Transaction Banking business
• Good understanding of Big Data Ecosystems – SAP HANA DB Experience preferred.
• Hands on experience in Source analysis, Data mapping, Reference data management & configuration and Data design Data flow design and System design.
• Walkthrough and presentations to stakeholders. Stakeholder Management.
• System Integration Testing, UAT support.
• Experience analysing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and data visualization techniques and tools
• Good communication and problem-solving skills with a good proficiency in English
• Experience delivering through Agile and Waterfall delivery framework
• Exposure to business architecture principles and methods
• Exposure to data querying languages and tools (for ex. SQL/PLSQL/Hibernate SQL)
• Ability to work proactively, independently when necessary and displays strong initiative.
• Experience in working in multicultural teams
• Understanding of Local and IFRS GAAP requirements
• Qualified accountant (CA, ACA, CIMA or equivalent) is desirable
  
  

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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.

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