Finance Manager, SC Ventures

Job Summary

Finance professional to support the SCV Finance function under supervision of the CFO and Head of Finance of SC Ventures. This is a fixed term role with a duration of 9 months.

Key Responsibilities

Key focus on

· Finance Business Partnership for the Venture business portfolio

· Financial Controllership of business venture entities

· FP&A support for ventures including planning & budgeting, performance analysis and Group reporting

· Support SC Ventures Finance with a wide variety of BAU, ad-hoc and Venture specific activities

· To help the growing scale and complexity of the SC Ventures business and to support future reporting requirements, SC Ventures requires an individual who is dynamic, has great attention to detail and a can-do attitude.

Strategy

· Planning and budgeting activities for SC Ventures during the Group budgeting cycles

· Providing financial insight to the venture teams for effective decision making

· Review of business plans, monthly management accounts and financial forecasts for ventures

Business

· Finance Business Partnering support for the venture portfolio

· Liaising with stakeholders on ad hoc queries, including business model creation and review and liaising with Tax, Treasury, and other Functional counterparts

Processes

· Providing overall Finance Business Partnering for the venture business portfolio

· Group reporting matters including but not limited to

· Monthly/Quarterly/Annual Group Financial Reporting

· Management Reporting for SC Ventures and the underlying businesses

· Financial & Management pack preparation for Group Performance Reviews, CFO Decks and any other ad hoc requests

· Reporting requirements from various other stakeholders such as Group Finance, Group Tax, Treasury, Governmental authorities.

· Set up of new venture businesses within the SCB Finance systems and assisting with venture operationalisation, including integration of third-party providers

Governance

· Data maintenance for Venture and Fund reporting

· Working with GFS support team and external parties to maintain financial control

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

· SC Ventures Finance Leadership team

· Group Finance & Tax teams

· Venture Management Teams

· Outsourced accounting providers

· Internal & External Auditors

Our Ideal Candidate

· 5 years in Finance Industry

· Risk and control mindset with regards to undertaking activities and attention to detail

· Audit background would be advantageous

· Be trustworthy. Have an ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines in a fast-evolving market.

· Focused not only on financials but also on operational, strategic and commercial issues.

· Thrive on the uncertainty and be patient

· Innovative – explore innovative ways to manage the associated risks and complexities within SC Ventures

Technical and Professional Experience

· Qualified Chartered Accountant / CPA / MBA

· Proficient in Excel modelling and PowerPoint presentations

· Experience in Peoplesoft, Hyperion, SAP, Clarity, iLevel and Kushim advantageous

Role Specific Technical Competencies

· Effective Communications

· Financial Reporting

· Accounting

· Influencing through expertise

· Budget Management

About SC Ventures

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, the United Arab Emirates and Israel.

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.

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