Director, WRB Group Cost Management

Job description

Job ID: 39579

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 19 Sept 2025

Job Summary

• The Director, WRB Cost Management will be working closely with the Head, WRB Cost Management in providing ideas, analytics and insights for the strategic and financial decisions facing the WRB CEO, CFO and Management Team (WRB MT).
  
  This includes forecasting costs related financial performance and analytics, competitive performance, and benchmarking.
  
  This position will be closely partnering with all WRB Finance Leads, including Segment, Regional and Country teams for internally and externally communicating WRB's costs related financial performance and is the primary liaison with the Central and Group Finance teams, including Group FP&A for all WRB cost matters.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Provide regular updates to the WRB CEO, CFO and LT on overall WRB Business costs related financial performance highlighting areas of opportunity and provide early warnings of the challenges ahead

• Be responsible for the WRB costs FP&A outcomes and one of the key contacts for WRB LT, WRB Finance leaders and Group FP&A for WRB's costs performance related matters

• Manage the annual Corporate Planning exercise for WRB costs, supporting target setting and allocation of resources within overall guardrails of strategy and affordability
• Support FP&A transformation agenda including improving speed, timeliness and quality of costs data available within FP&A systems and exploring and deploying new automation tools and future system-based analytics.
  
  

• Be a team player and motivate colleagues in the WRB Cost Finance teams (including extended team in Chennai & Bangalore) ensuring that the team together works to deliver its collective agenda

• Participate and contribute to risk discussions as required to facilitate better external and internal communication of WRB's risk matters at key WRB & Group forums as required for matters relating to costs related financial performance of WRB impacting costs financial performance Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates and the regulatory requirements and expectations to the role

• Represent the WRB Cost finance function in all costs and/or performance management related forums

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

• WRB CEO
• CFO and Management Team (WRB MT)
• Head, WRB Cost Management

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in FP&A team

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience in financial planning and analysis at a senior level gained at a leading, global financial services firm, preferably banking
• Proven problem solver using quantitative techniques, strong analytical skills with ability to develop proof of concept frameworks and business cases
• Strong business partner who can influence and effectively challenge C-suite stakeholders
• Demonstrated track record of leading and managing broad processes, while challenging the status quo and embracing the spirit of transformation.
  
  
• Strong people leader with ability to lead and grow teams of international talent, with a proven ability to work across teams and influence a broad range of stakeholders
• Be an inspirational people leader who looks for opportunities to grow others, develop talent, give clarity and guidance, drive purpose, and enhance decision quality across the team
• Be a leader who helps to grow the Bank, harnessing a strategic mindset and the ability to navigate complex situations and ambiguity

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Performance Management
• Business partnering and influencing
• External reporting & Competitive analysis
• Balance Sheet Management
• Risk and Control
• Business Knowledge (WRB)

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.
  
  

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