Vice President, R2R Accounting General Ledger Integrity

Job Description

• As member of the R2R Accounting Management team, lead all system changes/ process changes which require R2R participation to ensure that the group reporting numbers are accurate and contribute to the overall R2R Strategy of India and Africa.
• Supporting the Finance transformation programme to drive sustainable solutions and process improvements and standardization.
• Providing support to the Aspire program and implementing actions as per the program schedule.
Key Responsibilities
• Ensure impact on business performance outcomes is managed due to change in upstream or downstream processes and system.
• To monitor and ensure all TP feeds are interfaced, consistent COA used at consolidation and check various ledgers within the GL infra are in sync and multiple systems within the finance infra like PSGL /S4 aligned.
• Manage multiple stakeholders including business units, technology, service delivery.
• Ensure Organisation prescribed Change / Project Management methodologies / processes including the value behaviours are adhered to.
• Strong domain content and build best practice (Business Analysis and Project / Change Management). Review and carry out UAT on behalf of the Business Users in respect of the configuration and / or development implemented by Aspire Change / S4.
• Responsible for solutions to change requests received from Business Users for SAP components, namely FSDP, FPSL, and associated Reconciliations and Controls.
• The role is also expected to proactively drive improvement initiatives to continuously enhance the global process, whilst maintaining the highest levels of governance and controls.
• Ensure a stronger collaboration across various GFS units.
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
• GFS teams like Aspire, IDMQ, Change, R2R and other support functions.
• Group Finance Operational Risk.
• Strategy team.
Skills
• Demonstrated experience of influencing decisions at senior leadership level.
• Ability to manage complex situations and identifying solutions that support the business.
• Excellent communication - clear oral and written skills, effective questioning and active listening.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and ability to work with cross cultural teams.
• Strong team player and has the capacity to build good working relationships with cross functional / geographical teams.
• Able to perform gap analysis, identify and escalate issues and risks to the appropriate parties.
• Proven strong leadership experience in organizing, planning and executing projects from conceptualization through implementation across multiple internal and external reporting and organizational lines.
• Strategic thinking and leadership experience with an emphasis on relationship management and communication at all levels within an organization.
• Proven ability to perform under pressure and stress and to adjust plans to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Demonstrates integrity and professionalism, with the intent to do the right thing at all times.
Our Ideal Candidate
• Preferably Chartered accountant / ICMA or Commerce Graduate.
• 15 years work experience in Financial Accounting, Reporting and a reasonably good, technical Accounting experience.
• Knowledge of Finance policies, procedures and processes and how to deliver and support managers in effectively managing their teams
• Knowledge of and prior experience in working on the relevant platforms is an advantage (Micro strategy, Hyperion Essbase, HFM, PSGL, Oracle, SQL, ETL, Data warehouse, BIG Data, OBIEE).
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• ERP Implementation (preferably PSGL)
• SAP / S4
• Functional knowledge - on system upstream and downstream system and reporting connect
• Banking Product knowledge
Essential
• Global products, ALM and Commercial Book products
• Exposure to trading book products is an advantage
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