VP, Development - Transfer Pricing

Job Summary

Work as a Delivery and tech Lead under Finance (Tax & Transfer pricing) Technology. Individual will be responsible for end-to-end delivery of the Tax and TP IGAR program within the stipulated timelines, Transition to the target operating model and sustain the delivery and benefits committed. Bring out the risk and issues on a timely manner and collaborate with required group to arrive on a suitable solution to address them. 

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead the Tax and Transfer Pricing technology estate, ensuring successful delivery of change initiatives, platform sustainability, operational resilience and regulatory commitments.
•    Partner with Tax and Transfer Pricing Product Owners and business stakeholders to deliver business outcomes, sustain programme benefits and evolve the target operating model.
•     Own end-to-end technology delivery across the platform, including planning, execution, production support, risk management, audit readiness and control compliance.
•    Provide technology leadership across upstream/downstream integrations - Finance, WRB, CIB and other, managing dependencies, stakeholder expectations and delivery governance.
•    Lead and develop the engineering team, driving accountability, innovation, operational excellence and continuous improvement across the Transfer Pricing technology landscape.

    
People and Talent
•    Set direction and drive high performance by translating strategy into clear direction, aligning individual goals to team outcomes and providing regular, constructive feedback.
•    Develop talent and capability through coaching and career conversations that build critical skills, stretch potential and prepare individuals for future opportunities.
•    Lead by example by role-modelling the Bank’s valued behaviours, upholding strong risk and conduct standards, exercising sound judgment, and creating an inclusive team culture that supports wellbeing, values diverse perspectives, and drives accountability.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills
•    Tax and Transfer Pricing technology domain knowledge (Tax/TP operating model, data flows, controls, reporting processes)
•    Technology delivery leadership across change and run activities in tax and transfer pricing 
•    Data strategy and GCFO domain / target architecture 

Other Skills
•    Stakeholder management across Business, Finance- Change, Tax and TP - Operations, Technology
•    Technology risk management, 
•    Program management, Budgets , Financial management 
•    Ownership of enterprise applications in production (delivery, KTLO, incidents, releases, resilience)

Motivations

•    Motivated by building and sustaining business-critical platforms, ensuring that transformation benefits are realised, embedded and sustained beyond initial programme delivery.
•    Enjoys operating in environments that require ownership, ambiguity management and cross-functional collaboration, bringing together business, technology, architecture, operations and vendor teams to solve complex problems.
•    Energised by leading complex technology delivery across multiple stakeholders, balancing strategic outcomes, regulatory commitments and day-to-day execution.

Qualifications

Key Experiences    
•    Partner closely with the Tax and Transfer Pricing Product Owner to drive business outcomes, operating model evolution, data strategy and benefit realisation.
•    Provide technology leadership across the Tax and Transfer Pricing estate, balancing strategic initiatives, regulatory commitments, platform sustainability and day-to-day operational delivery.
•    Act as the primary technology counterpart for Tax and Transfer pricing , Finance, Architecture, Operations and Engineering teams, ensuring alignment across priorities, dependencies and delivery commitments.
•    Identify and manage cross-team dependencies across upstream and downstream systems and proactively address delivery risks, issues and constraints.
•    Lead technology governance, audit responses, control remediation, risk management and service resilience activities across the platform landscape.
•    Act as the single point of contact for technology delivery across Finance, WRB and CIB integrations, ensuring requirements are understood, designed, implemented and transitioned successfully into production.
Demonstrate strong understanding of end-to-end data flows, controls, reconciliations and batch processing patterns, with the ability to identify optimisation and automation opportunities.
•    10+ years of technology experience within Banking or Financial Services, including experience supporting Tax, Transfer Pricing or closely related Finance technology domains.
•    Strong Tax and Transfer Pricing domain knowledge is mandatory. The successful candidate should be able to operate with minimal ramp-up time, engage confidently with business stakeholders and provide leadership across both delivery and platform sustainability activities.
•    Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, with proven ability to communicate effectively with senior business and technology stakeholders.

Languages
•    English

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.