About the job

Job Summary

Strategy

• Provide support to CFO on preparing & analysing the country local results
• Support the finance process as per the timelines advised for both Group & local cycles.
• Automation of processes/reporting for efficiency

Business

• Engage with relevant stakeholders by providing key support in business partnership.

Processes

• Control and Compliance within the local regulatory and Group norms.
• Corporate & withholding tax compliance & relationship management.
• Financial accounting, statutory audit, local financial reporting matters

People & Talent

• Set the team spirit and focus on valued behaviour.
• Training and development opportunities
• Engage and retain high quality people.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback

Risk Management

• Proactive identification of risks and concerns, including escalation to all relevant stakeholders
• Support CFO for local prudential liquidity, Capital, Tax and other Operating risks, manage them within the acceptable level.
• Escalate identified risks and collaboration with business stakeholders in managing these risks,
• Review the control effectiveness and potential failure as required by the Operational Risk Framework.
• Compliance of applicable laws, regulations and internal policies and procedures.
• Ensure that appropriate Key Control Indicators and Key Risk Indicators are established, approved by ORO, are monitored and any deviations are action upon and escalated as required.

 Governance

• Adherence to laws and regulations, internal risk and compliance policies and the Group Code of Conduct.
•  Timely mitigation of risks and resolution of issues including collaboration with all relevant stakeholder functions, and establishment of effective controls.
•  Demonstration of adherence to the management principles for effective risk and control and the Group’s fair accountability principles
•  Prompt and decisive action upon detection of risk and compliance weaknesses

Key Responsibilities

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.
•  Always adhere to Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•  Highly ethical, including embracing of regulatory norms, laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•  Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters
•  Lead the Nepal country finance to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Key stakeholders

• Regulators (Central bank, Large Taxpayer Officer, Inland Revenue Department & DCGC), Exco members and other stakeholders from different units/segments

Skills And Experience

Other Responsibilities

•  Regulatory reporting & relationship.
•  Group reporting & relationship.
•  Corporate Taxation compliance & relationship management.
•  Financial accounting & controls.
•  Statutory audit and annual report (financial)
•  Budgeting & MIS.
•  Support to Business units & Support Functions.
•  Financial Control and Group Policy compliance.
•  Strategic planning & analytical support

Qualifications

•  Professional Accountant/Finance Specialist/MBA Finance from recognized university.
•  Working experience of around 10 years in finance and related processes in commercial banks.
•  Proven experience in finance/accounting functions and processes.
•  Understands the business dynamics, well versed with the local regulatory requirements/norms.
•  Knowledge of economic, social and legal environment as these have direct bearings on the functions of the bank.
•  Excellent collaboration, influencing, coaching and facilitation skills at both individual and leadership levels.
•  Ample trainings and development in new areas relating to finance processes.

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.