Director, WRB Group Cost Management

Responsibilities

• People and Talent
• Be a team player and motivate colleagues in the WRB Cost Finance teams (including extended team in Chennai & Bangalore) ensuring that the team together works to delivers its collective agenda
• Risk Management
• Participate and contribute in risk discussions as required to facilitate better external and internal communication of WRB's risk matters at key WRB & Group forums as required for matters relating to costs related financial performance of WRB impacting costs financial performance Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates and the regulatory requirements and expectations to the role
• Represent the WRB Cost finance function in all costs and/ or performance management related forums
• Regulatory and 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
• WRB CEO
• CFO and Management Team (WRB MT)
• Head, WRB Cost Management
• Our Ideal Candidate
• 10+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis at a senior level gained at a leading, global financial services firm, preferably banking ,Preferably candidate with experience in digital metrics.
• Proven problem solver using quantitative techniques, strong analytical skills with ability to develop proof of concept frameworks and business cases
• Strong business partner who can influence and effectively challenge C-suite stakeholders
• Demonstrated track record of leading and managing broad processes, while challenging the status quo and embracing the spirit of transformation.
• Strong people leader with ability to lead and grow teams of international talent, with a proven ability to work across teams and influence a broad range of stakeholders
• Be an inspirational people leader who looks for opportunities to grow others, develop talent, give clarity and guidance, drive purpose, and enhance decision quality across the team
• Be a leader who helps to grow the Bank, harnessing a strategic mindset and the ability to navigate complex situations and ambiguity
• Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Performance Management
• Business partnering and influencing
• External reporting & Competitive analysis
• Balance Sheet Management
• Risk and Control
• Business Knowledge (WRB)
• About Standard Chartered
• Our purpose, to drive comme

Additional Information

Job Summary Strategy - The Director, WRB Cost Management will be working closely with the Global Head, WRB Cost Management in providing ideas, analytics and insights for the strategic and financial decisions facing the WRB CEO, CFO and Management Team (WRB MT). This includes forecasting costs related financial performance and analytics, competitive performance, and benchmarking. This position will be closely partnering with all WRB Finance Leaders, including Segment, Regional and Country teams for internally and externally communicating WRB's costs related financial performance and is the primary liaison with the Central and Group Finance teams, including Group FP&A for all WRB cost matters. Business - Provide regular updates to the WRB CEO, CFO and LT on overall WRB Business costs related financial performance highlighting areas of opportunity and provide early warnings of the challenges ahead Processes - Be responsible for the WRB costs FP&A outcomes and be one of the key contacts for WRB LT, WRB Finance leaders and Group FP&A for WRB's costs performance related matters - Manage the annual Corporate Planning exercise for WRB costs, supporting target setting and allocation of resources within overall guardrails of strategy and affordability - Work closely to monitor Digital Technology Investments and Digital Sales Adoption across markets. Define and track monthly productivity and efficiency KPIs. - Support FP&A transformation agenda including improving speed, timeliness and quality of costs data available within FP&A systems and exploring and deploying new automation tools and future system-based analytics.

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