Mgr| Accounting Ctrl

Job Role

Strong analytical and Strategic mindset, coupled with a thorough understanding of Accounting, Financial Control in Banking Industry, with expertise in MS Office, PSGL and SAP.

Ability to work effectively under pressure, multitask, lead through ambiguities and should be a strong team player.

Business

Needs to and be aware of the understand the Group’s Strategy (looking at the big picture) and should be able to relate to it.

Processes
• Responsible for Mapping of ABDOs for assigned countries.
• Ensure 100% Substantiation in FCS.
• Review the ownership time to time to verify if the ABDOs are aligned with the respective team as per the Finance control policy.
• Continually reviewing all assigned processes in order to identify opportunities for quality and process design improvement.
• Ensure that the standards of customer service provided by the function consistently meet or exceed the requirements set under the Service Level Agreements agreed with the customers.
• Liaise with customers on the periodic review and re-negotiation of Service Level Agreements and any other related performance and quality measures.
• Ensure effective systems and procedures for the timely collection of data from all accounting sites and their collation and submission to various recipients.
• Ensure compliance of regulations, policies and requirements of the ‘in scope’ countries and reports and raise relevant risks to delivery by effective communication.
• Effectively contribute to the change being led by the superiors and management arising out of transition of new processes or arresting the escalations.

People and Talent
• Relationship and stakeholder management skills is important.
• Initiative and proactive thinking.
• Strong understanding of financial industry, specifically banking products and services.
• Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management.
• Excellent Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to culturally orient in diverse and international team environment and lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, multi task, lead through ambiguities, influence where he / she does not have direct authority and build on unstructured formative situation.

Risk Management

Understand the Group Accounting Policy and the FCSR Standard and Policy in a way that he / she is able to identify any control lapses that has an element of risk and highlighting / escalating as appropriate.

Regulatory and 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.
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key Stakeholders

Internal
• All the CFOs of the countries and Group served by GFS
• Various business heads of GFS
• GBS - HR, Finance, Risk and Compliance

External
• External auditors, local and overseas
• Senior members of other Finance Shared Services Centres in the industry
• Peer group companies related businesses

Our Ideal Candidate
• Graduate or Post - Graduate in Finance with 10 years of experience.
• Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Accounting
• MS Office
• SAP / Oracle

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be 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, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.

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Job: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Primary Location: Asia-India-Chennai

Schedule: Full-time

Employee Status: Permanent

Posting Date: 02/Nov/2026, 1:36:22 AM

Unposting Date: Ongoing