Senior Technical Accountant

Job Description

Job SummaryThis role is as Senior Accountant within the Group Accounting Policy Team Strategy

• Establishes and maintains the Groups accounting policies and the related application guidance and ensures that they are applied in a consistent way on a global basis
• Leads the implementation of new and emerging IFRS accounting standards across the Group, engaging with multiple stakeholders across the Business, Functions and Risk.
• Engages with external bodies, including regulators, standard setters as well as active involvement with industry bodies and the Groups auditors

Business

• Provides accounting advisory support to client businesses, country and business finance teams and Group functions
• Presents advanced and innovative business-focused solutions to technical accounting issues
• Provides pro-active thought leadership to senior management by developing world-class accounting ideas and solutions

Processes

• Reviews and provides accounting opinions on significant transactions under IFRS
• Performs thematic reviews for significant issues
• Actively participates in the debate on accounting changes, through internal and external forums and the submission of comment letters on emerging accounting and reporting issues, enabling the Group to ensure these best represent the Groups position
• Provides training for the Global finance and businesses through interactive presentations and newsletters

People & Talent

• To lead, inspire and motivate finance team in supporting a base level understanding of accounting
• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people are suitably skilled

Risk Management

• Ensures that Operational Risk requirements for GAPA are met

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Displays exemplary conduct and live by the Groups Values and Code of Conduct
• Takes personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered. 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 identifies, escalates, mitigates and resolves risk, conduct and compliance matters

Key Stakeholders

• Group Financial Reporting
• Group Tax
• Country CFOs
• Product CFOs
• Front Office
• Investor Relations
• Risk
• Corporate Development
• Product Control

Other Responsibilities

• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and proven ability to lead a complex project to completion and within the projected timeframe
• Is pro-active and able to think laterally and strategically and have strong analytical skills and is able to analyse complex structural transactions and new product developments
• Has excellent communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively and interact with all levels of staff, including senior bank management, and different cultures

Qualifications

• Qualified financial accountant, at least 8 years of post qualification experience
• Expert and in-depth knowledge of IFRS and financial instruments accounting, with the ability to apply that knowledge at a practical level within banking

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Technical Accounting - IFRS
• External Reporting - IFRS

About Standard Chartered Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, weve 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 opportunitiesto grow and do better than before. If youre 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 cant wait to see the talents you canbring 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, youll 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-helptoolkits
• 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 youve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an importantstage of our recruitment process.

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