Job Summary

Role Purpose

• To provide strategic leadership and end-to-end oversight of Accounts Payable and Payment Operations within Organization, ensuring delivery of productive, controlled, compliant, and customer-centric services across the organization.
• The role is accountable for operational excellence, governance, risk management, payment controls, stakeholder engagement, process transformation, and people leadership. The Associate Vice President will lead multiple teams through senior managers and managers, drive continuous improvement initiatives, strengthen the control environment, and ensure alignment with Standard Chartered strategic priorities, values, and risk culture.
• The role serves as a key partner to global stakeholders across Finance, Procurement, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Business functions to ensure sustainable operational performance, scalability, and service excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end design and implementation of the P-Card programme across approved markets,



from business case and operating model through rollout and stabilisation.
• Translate the P-Card strategy into a phased implementation roadmap with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, benefits, risks and accountable owners.
• Own delivery governance, including programme plans, steering updates, decision logs, risk and issue tracking, and timely escalation of delivery constraints.
• Define the target operating model covering card request, approval, issuance, activation, usage, expense submission, reconciliation, settlement, suspension and closure.
• Partner with Procurement, Finance, Treasury, Tax, Legal, Compliance, Operational Risk, Technology, Information Security and business teams to deliver market-ready solutions.
• Lead engagement with card issuers, expense-platform providers and other external partners, ensuring service, control, data and implementation requirements are met.
• Develop and maintain P-Card policies, standards,

📌 Associate Vice President (Chennai)
🏢 Standard Chartered India
📍 Chennai