Lead, Capital Reporting

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Accountable for the regulatory reporting function and its deliverables in accordance with regulatory requirements. Defines and drives the strategic direction for Capital and RWA reporting across Group, Country, and Business. Partners with senior stakeholders to enhance the integrity, consistency, and strategic use of Capital metrics, contributing to optimisation of balance sheet usage and improvement in Group RoTE.

Business
•    Deep subject matter expertise across Basel frameworks (Basel II, III and IV), Capital metrics, and regulatory methodologies. Strong understanding of Banking Products and their impact on Risk Weighted Assets and regulatory capital. Provides expert judgment on methodologies, assumptions, and interpretation of capital outcomes. Ensures appropriate use of reporting platforms and data sources in line with regulatory expectations including BCBS 239 and PRA requirements.

Processes
•    Owns the end-to-end regulatory capital reporting and control framework. Ensures processes are robust, scalable, and sustainable under regulatory scrutiny. Sets expectations for data quality, controls, and governance standards, and oversees remediation of material issues. Drives strategic transformation through standardisation, simplification, and automation to future-proof the reporting operating model. 

People & Talent
•    Collaborate with various teams to resolve Capital issues; transition changes into BAU efficiently that is aligned with the regulatory and bank’s technology objectives. Build relationships to improve collaboration across Change, Technology and Business teams to implement changes into Capital CoE 

Risk Management
•    Candidate needs to be able to articulate the Capital metrics and drive the discussion with Senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Treasury and Business to meet the requirements. Provide Consultation/Support in dealing with business queries relating to Capital metrics, all other internal and external capital regulatory reports 

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
•    GPO/GPM, Capital CoE
•    Group Regulatory Reporting – Head and Reporting Leads  
•    Credit and Market Risk functions – Functional Heads and Leads
•    Capital Technology and PSS – Head and Leads across PSS and Technology 
•    Capital Change Management - Head and Leads across Capital Change
•    Country Regulatory Reporting – CFO, Financial Controller and Country Leads

Skills and Experience

•    Strong functional content across Basel framework (Basel II, III and IV); Capital metrics computation and methodologies, with key drivers
•    Good understanding on Banking Products and able to co-relate to Risk Weighted Assets / Regulatory Reporting
•    Candidate must be familiar with the use of SQL to interrogate and extract the data for analysis. 
•    SAS and/or Python knowledge is an added benefit
•    Candidate must be familiar with regulatory requirements for data management - BCBS 239 and PRA requirements
•    Stakeholder engagement (across geographies) with strong Communication skills
•    People leadership and management
•    Technical skills like Advanced Excel (including macro) and Python / R
•    Knowledge on Balance Sheet Management systems like Moody’s, Oracle, QRM

Qualifications

•    MBA (Fin) or Master’s in Finance / Accountancy / Economics or affiliated subjects; Undergraduate degree in Science / Engineering / Commerce.
•    Chartered Accountant: Risk Management or related Professional Certification will be an added advantage.
•    Minimum of 14 years of Capital Regulatory Reporting.
•    Strong knowledge of Capital regulations and metrics; Proficient in analytics to drive deep understanding of Capital; Collaboration mindset; able to deliver solutions to improve BAU.

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.