What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Manager - Anchorpoint position at Standard Chartered?
Role Summary
The Finance Manager (FM) will own Anchorpoint’s full set of books and records, acting as the primary contact for financial reporting and audits. This includes overseeing accounting processes, period-end close, and managing day-to-day operations such as payables, receivables, payroll, and intragroup transactions with SCB.
The FM will also lead cash management and cost control, drive financial reporting (including consolidation, statutory and tax), and maintain strong governance through policies, controls and audit support, while continuously improving processes and efficiency.
Role Responsibilities
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
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.
Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers
The Finance Manager (FM) will own Anchorpoint’s full set of books and records, acting as the primary contact for financial reporting and audits. This includes overseeing accounting processes, period-end close, and managing day-to-day operations such as payables, receivables, payroll, and intragroup transactions with SCB.
The FM will also lead cash management and cost control, drive financial reporting (including consolidation, statutory and tax), and maintain strong governance through policies, controls and audit support, while continuously improving processes and efficiency.
Role Responsibilities
- Overall company performance management, supporting the C-suite Management team with the Financial Planning and Budgeting/Forecasting exercise, monthly performance review and analysis.
- To collate market and competition information on the economy, market trends, peer reviews and any other relevant business-related information requirements.
- Partner with SCB Finance teams on strategy, performance issues / opportunities.
- Provide timely and accurate financial information / MI / analysis (including business variance analysis linking current performance with future projections, business momentum, risks and opportunities) to enable strategic decision making.
- Provide coordination and support during forecasting, budgeting and monthly reporting cycles
- Support expense reporting for Anchorpoint and provide analysis of the cost base, analysis Group cost allocations, prepare and support in the forecasting and budgeting activities, review and challenge cost allocation drivers and methodologies, support with monthly MI and analytics on the cost moments across various account lines and variances to budgets, forecasts, YoY, MoM, etc.
- Provide market intelligence on key competitors’ performance and highlight any changes in the competitive landscape.
- Supporting the CEO, CFO and other C-Suite with any other adhoc analysis and project related support.
- Liaise with Standard Chartered Banks operations support team for manual entries on accruals, reclassifications, ad-hoc adjustments, and account substantiation.
- Ensure robust financial processes in place to report P&L and balance sheet in an accurate and timely manner and review monthly financial results.
- Drive continuous improvements, identifying opportunities to consolidate, automate, and gain process efficiencies
- Manage overall design and outcome of the end-to-end process and owns the process output performance in terms of client service, financial performance and risk where appointed as Process Owners.
- To implement appropriate internal controls and operating risk management/monitoring processes and procedures within the unit for ensuring integrity of Performance and Expense reporting and compliance with related group policies/standards.
- Qualified accountant with relevant working experience in banking industry
- Strong experience and exposure on business performance metrics and how it is enabled through good process discipline
- Strong analytical skill and attention to details
- Ability to work in an organised way, multi-tasking, prioritising, managing data to meet tight deadlines
- Resilient professional and self starter with well developed communication & inter-personal skills
- Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills
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
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.
Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.
Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers