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Senior Manager- Financial Control

Job Description

Requisition Number: 53933

Job Location: Chennai, IND

Global Grade: Band 6

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 08/09/2026

Posting End Date: 09/09/2026

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

- Build Legal Entity Controller model.
- Identify the underlying risk that exists in Balance Sheet and provide a view to CFO/ Risk committee as appropriate.
- Review to ensure the Integrity, accuracy, and completeness of the GL, detect inconsistencies and review variances and rectify any accounting error prior to book close window.
- Perform high quality review of IFRS Financials and disclosures for external publication, ensuring no material misstatements.
- Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.

Business
- Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Legal Entity operates

Processes
- To work closely with the Country Finance and GCFO India Financial control teams in managing the Financial Controls & Risk function.
- Ensure that the periodic reconciliation & substantiation exercise across the bank is performed smoothly and escalate exception / non-compliance to the department head and Country Finance
- Support the day-to-day controls & periodic monitoring activities, timely identification and reporting of significant risks & losses, and effectiveness of risk mitigation actions
- Implementation of the process controls and review/compliance
- To ensure financial control policies and compliance monitoring measures are in place and being adhered to & to ensure a robust financial control environment in the Bank.
- Embed the Controllership + Reporting model ensuring the end client is kept at the centre of the model ensuring it serves the intended purpose efficiently and effectively
- Identify and present Financial & Operational Risk to the Senior Managements (CFO, Cluster CFO & Reg. CFO etc.,) through various Risk FORUMs like FORTM, ERC, CORC, SRM etc.,
- To improve the NPS scores, people engagement, R&R;, P3 review and provide timely feed back to the team
- To support CFO declaration / reduction of Group Queries
- Support the implementation of BSS Tool in ASPIRE

- Improve External and Internal GIA audit grades
- Aris - Process mapping for all L3 processes & implement opportunities identified
- Successful implementation and sustainability of Controllership Framework for the assigned countries.
- Support the improvement of financial control framework using the Controllership design
- To test and sign off existence of financial control measures when the organization launches any new product, ventures, subsidiaries and such other specific projects.
- Sox implementation

People & Talent
- Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
- Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
- Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.

Risk Management




- The ability to interpret the Group's financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures

Governance
- Monitor and ensure that appropriate Change governance is followed across all transformation initiatives. Represent the function at the governance forums in place for tracking change initiatives and influence decisions in respect of the change backlog, prioritisation, choice of technology tools and the operating model.

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
- Country Finance, GFS

Skills and Experience

- Demonstrates proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint
- PSGL experience
- Effective Communication
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving & Analytical skills
- Data management
- Control mindset

Qualifications

Education

- Minimum 6 years of work experience in financial control / operational risk functions of FIs, internal audit of FIs or external audit from Big 4 firms or over 10 years' experience in the FA domain
- Candidates with experience is core financial market operations or Retail / consumer banking operations (preferred)
- CA / CWA preferred
- Exposure to SAP, PSGL, work experience in TPGL reconciliations.
- Exhibiting influential capabilities across departments in complying with the General Ledger Controls and Reconciliation Policies of the organization
- People handling skills & Strong interpersonal skills required
- Robust communication skills and experience in liaising with Senior Management / stakeholders.
- Experience in monitoring and implementation of financial control measures and other risk management matters.

Training
- Post-graduation/CA/CWA with Operations, Finance, Project management experience

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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📌 Senior Manager- Financial Control (Chennai)
🏢 Standard Chartered
📍 Chennai