Senior Manager Product Control GBS

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a team covering various product categories and regions. (Asset classes: Rates / FX / FXO / Com / XVA)
• Ensure appropriate controls and reviews are maintained for Daily P&L production, Core reconciliations, Month-end close, and BSRS.
• Ensure the teams are performing timely lockdown of daily and monthly P&L.
• Should be able to substantiate daily and monthly adjustments held in P&L and control accounts.
• Help to guide and train team members to ensure adherence to controls.

Strategy

• Review monthly balance sheet, with substantiation and potential financial exposure.
• Review/Prepare various reconciliation reports, management packs, and adhoc reports.
• Posting and review of month-end Journals for accrual, provision, and true-up.
• Take responsibility for the quality of work submitted and ensure that the highest standards are maintained by the team.

Business

• Ensure adherence to SLA’s, KPI’s, Internal metrics & FMG-wide policies.
• Identify/ manage risk and control breakdowns.
• Develop & Maintain effective and standard processes. Maintain KOP’s/DI’s.
• Support change project initiatives and conduct User Acceptance Testing for enhancements to current systems or migration to new system.
• Production of monthly packs and assist in implementation of sound controls and consistent processes around Monthly packs.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• 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.

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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct, and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Regular face-off with Business, Product Control Management, Regional finance team, and various internal stakeholders.
• Act as a point of reference for asset class.
• Manage relationship with internal stakeholders, take regular feedback, anticipate, and understand issues, and escalate appropriately for timely resolution
• Manage strong relationship with support teams (IT, Operations, and Risk) and bring synergies by interacting and integrating with cross-functional team

Qualification & Requirements

Skills And Experience

• Communication
• IFRS & Accounting knowledge
• Banking Loan Products
• Product Controller

Qualifications

• MBA, CA, CFA, ACCA with a minimum of 10+ years’ experience (post qualification) in a financial service industry
• Good understanding of Accounting and Financial Markets products.
• Analytical skills, hands-on experience with PeopleSoft financials, SAP, MS Office & MS SQL will be an added advantage.
• Strong Control mindset.
• Strong interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skill which help build an effective internal network across the numerous stakeholders.

Benefits

• 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.