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Primary Location: Africa & Middle East-United Arab Emirates-Dubai
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 29/Aug/2022, 2:06:26 AM
Unposting Date: 12/Sep/2022, 5:59:00 PM
Role Responsibilities
Internal
Job: Finance
Primary Location: Africa & Middle East-United Arab Emirates-Dubai
Schedule: Full-time
Employee Status: Permanent
Posting Date: 29/Aug/2022, 2:06:26 AM
Unposting Date: 12/Sep/2022, 5:59:00 PM
Role Responsibilities
Strategy
Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role
Business
Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates
Processes
Responsible for supervising the Financial reporting, cost controls, local tax calculations, Budget process and assisting in tax audits.
- To execute and supervise the Financial Reporting stream competently by adhering to applicable accounting policies, Standards, controls and procedures.
- Preparation and review of financial returns to various internal stakeholders & external authorities
- Assist in direct tax accounting, reporting and tax audits and ensure all relevant legislations and policies applicable to the bank with respect to direct and indirect taxes are complied with
- Support matters relating to Property finance
- Assisting the team lead during external and internal audits
- Risk management in Financial reporting by reviewing the relevant key risk indicators
- Bring about synergies and process improvements and implement best practices in the performance and delivery of BAU.
- Perform superior levels of judgement to assess the impact of business activities and identify errors and trends early enough to enable effective remedial actions to be taken and to facilitate clear understanding of the financial impact of decisions by the businesses.
- Exhibit superior time management to prioritize and the balance the tasks.
- Contribute to the Group Finance projects, representing the region, in terms of evaluation of Pros & Cons, impact analysis and seamless implementation
- Coordination with the business counterparts to effectively manage the reporting requirements
- Understand the role of Central finance in its entirety and assess potential risks in the area of accounting and reporting and highlight the same to the department head and in the relevant risk forums
- Maintain effective stakeholder relationship with Hubs by providing guidance and accepting suggestions in order to effectively drive the reporting process
Governance
- Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas.
- Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
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.
- Deliver PRA prescribed responsibilities
Key Stakeholders
Internal
- Head of Financial Reporting
- CFO, UAE
- Group Finance & Group Taxation
- Regional Tax
- Regulatory Reporting team
- Balance sheet and Performance management team
- Group Corporate Treasury, Group Insurance & Group Audit.
External
- External Auditors and Tax Consultants
Our Ideal Candidate
- The job holder should have prior experience / working knowledge on IFRS and accounting rules.
- Candidate with prior experience in an accounting role in audit firms will be preferred.
- Ability to co-ordinate with stakeholders, work collaboratively with them to deliver robust control and risk management outcomes
- Good writing and presentation skills in English. Proficient in MS Excel, word and power-point
- ACA / ACCA / CIMA / CMA or equivalent, preferably with emphasis on Accounting
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.
- 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.
Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers
