VP – Sustainability Change – Standard Chartered

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.
• Recruitment assessments – some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you’ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

Senior Lead for Finance Change supporting the Aspire Programme with an emphasis on Sustainability / ESG, to deliver a scalable technology solution which includes common Data Mapping and data platform, interface to upstream and downstream as well as external reporting (regulatory disclosures included).

Strategy

Define interim and strategic state of solutioning, business processes and architecture roadmap for sustainability / ESG within the remit of GCFO.

Business

Lead discussions on business requirements with the Finance community as well as Business to solution for Sustainability / ESG reporting assurance and governance including

• Good mixture of business and technical background to translate business requirements.
• Stakeholder management – I admit that new hire will have a steep learning curve.
• Process governance expertise to contribute to operating model development.
• Data analytics and solutioning for accounting and financial reporting.
• Experience with data modelling and functional design.
• Data quality assurance and controls.
• Good project management.

Processes

• Lead the solutioning for Sustainability / ESG reporting, finance governance and assurance and disclosures through constructive development of detailed requirements and discuss options for design of functionality with Technology teams and other functions, where required.
• Lead Finance team through testing phase, by performing testing, sharing test results and / or provide guidance based on knowledge of new TP system and architecture flows to finance systems.
• Ensure implementation in sustainability / ESG solution architecture fulfilling business and reporting requirements.
• Ensure mapping into Aspire and perform testing of the common model post implementation by technology.
• Perform data mapping into a common data model across end-to-end infrastructures across the Bank.
• Participate in management meetings and update PMO with project status.
• Perform analysis and explore options to resolve issues identified.
• Prepare project documentation and tracker as required.
• Escalate critical issues for management attention.

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.
• Lead 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].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Key Stakeholders

• Business – CCIB and CPBB
• Finance – Group and Country
• Aspire and GCFO Change
• Supply Chain Management
• Wider Finance Community e.g. Treasury and Capital
• Compliance
• Audit
• Technology

Our Ideal Candidate

• The candidate should be a university graduate with extensive Banking experience.
• Expertise in data management is preferred.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project management
• Accounting knowledge
• Financial products
• Influencing skills