MANAGER, STRATEGIC INITIATIVES

About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

The Role Responsibilities

• Perform deep-dive on Regulatory Returns for Singapore and Regional countries, define future state for Financial and regulatory reporting for SG Country Finance, incorporating guidance from respective regulators with on-shore finance requirements
• Drive discussions to unlock potential roadblocks on requirements and define implementation steps in the FRR landscape transformation
• Ensure end-to-end project delivery is managed and followed through across the change/ project lifecycle from i.e. initiation, providing and signing off business requirements, User Acceptance Test, Go-live and post go-live
• Escalate all change/ project risks and issues and ensure mitigating actions are put in place on a timely basis
• Define testing cases and approaches and ensure UAT entry and exit criteria are met.
• Log issues (UAT and post go-live), assign criticality and closely follow-up till full resolution
• Work closely with cross functional teams and deliver effectively in system implementation (automation of regulatory reporting) and data quality improvement projects

Our Ideal Candidate

• Recognised financial management and/or accounting experience and qualifications (ACA, CPA, CA, ACCA, CIMA)
• Track record of working in a very organised way, multi-tasking, prioritising, and setting and achieving deadlines
• Demonstrate a "#NeverSettle" attitude.
• Strong working knowledge of ledger and transaction processing systems in the Banking industry.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Capacity to think creatively and laterally
• Good reasoning and analytical skills
• High level of drive and resilience along with attention to detail
• Prior experience in improvement initiatives and projects
• Strong knowledge of IFRS, SFRS and MAS regulations and reporting requirements of returns and ratios (e.g. 610, 649, 639, AMR) would be preferred.

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.