Standard Chartered—VP - Technology FPNA

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Description: Job Summary Technology and Operations (T&O) is a 40,000+ employees and $4b cost base organization that provides Technology solutions and Operational excellence for the Bank. T&O Finance function is a dynamic team of 175+ people across multiple locations that supports the T&O organization. This is a business partner role where you will work closely with Tech Domain Lead of Software Engineering to deliver accurate and timely insights to support executive decision making, while also maintaining strong financial governance and controls. - Serve as the lead Finance Business Partner to the CIO, Software Engineering, and senior leadership team, providing strategic financial advice, challenge and insight to support business decisions and execution of the technology agenda. - Drive the end-to-end financial management of the Software Engineering portfolio, including budgeting, forecasting, performance tracking and strategic planning across costs and headcount. - Provide forward-looking insights on financial performance, productivity, capacity and key business drivers, identifying opportunities, risks and trade-offs for senior management action. - Partner with Technology leadership to optimise investment outcomes, improve cost efficiency and ensure delivery of strategic and financial objectives. - Act as a trusted advisor in executive forums, exercising independent judgement, constructive challenge and financial stewardship to support effective decision-making. - Drive continuous improvement in financial processes, management information, data quality and automation to strengthen business partnering capabilities and decision support. - Maintain strong governance, controls and compliance standards while ensuring transparency, accountability and effective management of financial risks within the technology portfolio. - Work closely with Tech CFO to help and drive overall Technology finance agenda Key Responsibilities - Senior Stakeholder Management & Influence - Build strong and credible relationships with CIOs, Engineering Heads, Product Leaders, Programme Directors and Finance Leadership teams across the organisation. - Provide effective challenge and independent financial perspectives while maintaining strong partnerships with senior stakeholders. - Influence cross-functional decisions where there may be competing priorities, balancing strategic objectives, affordability and risk considerations. - Represent Technology Finance in executive forums, governance reviews and transformation discussions. Strategic Transformation & Optimization - Identify opportunities to improve financial transparency, productivity and decision support through process simplification, automation and data-driven insights. - Drive initiatives that strengthen financial business partnering capabilities, improve management information and enable more strategic decision making. - Champion the adoption of advanced analytics, digital tools and automation to enhance financial planning, forecasting and performance management capabilities. Change & Optimization • Drive standardisation, digitisation and optimisation of incurred and recharge cost reporting, outlook and plan processes • Support, participate and contribute actively finance change programs like Cost and Workforce reporting, Strategic FXN solution and more to ensure alignment of interest and outcomes for finance • Develop an effective organisation structure which delivers the right balance between process expertise and specialist CFO partnering capability People & Talent • Lead by example, develop and embed a high-performance culture with specific focus on capability, effectiveness, and productivity. • Support the development of talent to ensure a high-quality succession pipeline at all levels and ongoing development activities that focus on the identified talent within the team. • Foster a culture of collaboration and a mindset of change and growth Risk Management • Ability to interpret the firm’s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures. • Ensure compliance with Group Accounting Principles and practices, Financial Control policy, and other regulatory accounting guidelines. Governance • Have an awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role 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 and partners - Tech CFO - Head of Tech Finance - Tech Heads and Business Planning Managers - Program & Technical leads for Technology Simplification - T&O Finance Other Responsibilities • Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in all conduct & actions Skills and Experience • Planning: Tactical, Strategic • Financial Analysis • Financial Forecasting and Modelling • Effective Communications • Process Improvement Qualifications - Bachelors/University degree - Relevant accounting qualification i.e., CPA, CMA, ACCA or Finance MBA. - Strong skills with core Business Analysis toolset and techniques - Able to design processes at both a conceptual and operational level - Strong background in problem solving, with demonstrable analytical skills - Experience in Senior Stakeholder Management and Communication - - About Standard Chartered 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 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.