Business Finance Analyst recruitment

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Building on a rich history of over 150 years in Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Standard Chartered is a leading international bank operating in some of the most dynamic markets in the world.

Our successful and sustainable business is known in the industry for its unmatched on-the-ground expertise, its relationship-focused approach to business and a solid track record of innovative, award-winning and client-centric solutions.

Business Finance

Business Finance Europe is responsible for the performance management, analysis and reporting of the OCC Europe business. Role requires working closely in partnership with the business whilst maintaining a high level of integrity and independence.

Scope of the OCC business is origination and client revenues across all customer, product and geographic segmentation, booked in both Europe (Onshore Revenues) and in other regions (Offshore Revenues). Therefore need to work closely with the other business finance teams for Transaction Banking, Financial Markets and Corporate Finance products, and OCC business finance teams in other regions, in order to gain full understanding of all aspects of the OCC Europe business.

Key Roles Responsibilities
* Business Performance Management :
o Implement weekly flash for Onshore revenues at product level.
o Month-end reporting and analysis of business performance - across customer, product and geographic segmentation for Onshore and Offshore revenues.
o Understand what the drivers and risk parameters are for the business.
o Understand how these are aligned to business strategies and KPIs.

* Active participation with the business and OCC Central Finance (based in Singapore) in providing accurate financial information and analysis :
o Providing timely and accurate performance summary reports to regional OCC team. This involves understanding and preparation of various customer level reports by using large amount of data.
o Ensure Business Finance is involved in all financial information and analysis provided.
o Ensure that processes are in place to allow clear view of current and projected performance across all product areas and geographic and customer segmentations that generate OCC revenues.
o Work with the business to identify and correct inaccurate financial information caused by issues in static data, systems or processes.
o Work with Shared Service centre in Chennai for any process transfer and monitor/ manage seamless delivery of relevant reports to ultimate customers.
o Ongoing analysis and monitoring of KPIs against business plans.
o Work with OCC Central Finance to ensure reporting to global business represents true picture of the OCC Europe business.

* Active participation with business in capital management process (re Lending) :
o Understand key drivers and sensitivities of RWA under Basel II; work with business to maximise capital efficiency of portfolios.
o Review business balance sheet and analysis of month on month movements and variances against forecasts and budgets.
o Develop balance sheet and capital projections.

Qualifications Skills

* Part Qualified accountant (preferably ACA/ACCA/CIMA) with experience in Investment banking.
* Strong Excel skills - manipulation of huge volumes of data is required in order to allow analysis to be carried out.
* Experience of performance management of Client Revenues in a Wholesale Banking environment.
* Experience of the other key responsibilities as listed above.
* Strong team working and networking capability - success of role is reliant on ability to work with many different teams effectively.
* Strong organisation skills, flexibility and decision making capability.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills - clear, concise and at appropriate levels of details to tailor to different audiences and purposes.