Head, Wealth Solutions & Pvb (Sg & Asean)

Job Summary Ensure the accuracy and integrity of the financial information and provide value added analysis and insights to Singapore Wealth Solutions and PvB business teams to support their decision making and strategic development. Key Responsibilities Partnering, Analysis & Decision support (including Adhoc) • Provide Wealth Solutions and Private Bank business with options, recommendations and clear financial consequences based on robust analysis and a transparent decision-making framework. • Support the respective Business Heads to drive and manage business performance based on agreed external & internal benchmarks for optimal decisions, superior performance, and appropriate rewards. • Collaborate with Business in setting the expectation and provide right solutioning, to drive and manage WRB Agenda • Understand the drivers of various lines of business and analyse the drivers that can influence delivery of planned target with Risk/Opportunities • Support the delivery of 'Analytical ask' by connecting to the Business context and link it to Country Plan target and strategic outcomes • Ensure support to business stakeholders on regular and ad-hoc management meetings (e.g., MBR, ALCO, CMT and MAS CRAFT) Reporting & Business Support • Provide comprehensive MIs on financial performance to business heads and help them understand drivers of financial performance as well as quantify risks and opportunities arising from changes in the external environment • Provide Storyboarding behind the numbers with value-added Business commentaries • Understand the Objectives of the Report and help to establish and deliver performance MI to the respective business heads Planning (Corporate Plan/Flash/Outlook) • Collaborate with Country Performance Management and Product/Segment CFO teams (Group/Region/Country) aligning top down/Bottoms up for Budgeting / Flash/Outlook • Constantly drive re-engineering of the Budgeting/ Forecasting process to deliver process efficiencies and effectiveness (Model Building) • Support loading for Budgeting/ forecasting process and provision of data with key drivers that influence Corporate Plan Transformation, Change & Digital Agenda • Drive the change agenda by assessing the impact covering both Performance, System and Process • Support in implementing the organisational changes in the MI with no slippage in quality/timeline • Identify/ Build Digital Capability with the team to drive Automation / Standardisation • Execute process simplification through Digital Capability and standardisation of Reports Financial Controls • Maintain robust process around Balance Sheet Substantiation and coordinate with relevant stakeholders for the timely resolution of overdue balances. • Ensure robust financial processes in place to report revenue as well as balance sheet for WRB in an accurate and timely manner • Ensure compliance with Group / IFRS accounting principles and practices, Financial Control policy, and other regulatory accounting guidelines. • Ensure timely and correct submission of financial returns to various internal and external authorities and stakeholders. Key stakeholders Internal • Singapore Wealth Solutions Business team • Singapore PvB Business team • Singapore WRB Head of Business Finance • Singapore Country Finance Team • Group Wealth Solutions Finance Team • Group PvB Finance Team • India Support Team External • External Auditors Contributes to • 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. • Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * • Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Our Ideal Candidate • 10+ years of relevant finance experience in FP&A and wealth solutions products • Relevant Financial Planning & Analysis experience in supporting business financial analysis, preferably with experience in Wealth Solutions products • Effective communication skills, including presenting and influencing senior management. • Excellent Excel & PowerPoint skills • Ex…