The posting
Job Summary
Support the delivery of resolvability modelling within the Group Stress Testing team, with a focus on the Group's Valuation in Resolution (ViR) Valuation 3 capability. The role is responsible for executing Valuation 3 financial modelling activities, contributing to the ongoing enhancement of modelling capabilities, ensuring alignment with agreed assumptions and stakeholder inputs, and supporting compliance with governance and regulatory requirements.
The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, resolvability barrier teams, developers, model governance functions and senior management to support the delivery of key initiatives.
The role also supports the delivery of the Group's annual Reverse Stress Test, helping to assess the Group's vulnerabilities under severe but plausible stress scenarios and providing analysis to support management decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
• Deliver insights from scenario modelling that inform the Group’s restructuring strategies, recovery plan and corporate plan, including combined capital and liquidity stresses.
• Embed the processes into business-as-usual operations and deliver scenario-modelling insights that inform the Group’s restructuring strategies and recovery plan, including combined capital and liquidity stresses.
Business
• Work with relevant business, Finance and Treasury to develop methodology for wind-down and disposal scenarios
• Engage with Treasury Liquidity team to connect funding-in-resolution analysis with valuation and financial projections
• Have a deep understanding of the Group’s financials and businesses and consult on areas of growth in the context of internal, external environment.
• Produce clear management information for stakeholders and presentations to the PRA, CFOs and the Board.
Processes
• Support the delivery of resolvability cost modelling for ViR Valuation 3, including participation in testing exercises involving Group management, the Board and legal entities.
• Enhance financial modelling capabilities and methodologies to improve the accuracy and realism of projections, including capital and liquidity metrics.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to obtain required inputs, reconcile financial information and maintain consistency of assumptions across valuations.
• Identify opportunities to streamline Valuation 3 processes and improve execution efficiency and controls.
• Support responses to second-line reviews and challenges relating to financial modelling and associated processes.
• Maintain key documentation, including the Playbook, DOI, Basis of Preparation and ARIS process maps.
• Support engagement with the Group Model Validation team throughout model validation activities.
• Work with BAU and Change teams to define business requirements for system and process enhancements that strengthen resolvability modelling capabilities.
• Support delivery of the annual Reverse Stress Test and related governance activities.
• Track project actions, dependencies and issues, and drive timely resolution through engagement with stakeholders across Finance, Risk, OCiR and Technology.
Risk Management
• Assess Risks within process and design and ensure execution of appropriate controls to mitigate inherent risks.
• Develop effective risk management and controls within modelling and analytics processes, including compliance with relevant model risk governance standards.
• Review relevant regulations, assess compliance and identify gaps. Prepare action plans to address gaps and execute against them.
Governance
• Maintain a strong understanding of the regulatory framework within which the Group operates and its associated delivery obligations, particularly those relating to resolvability cost modelling and the relevant resolution statements of policy.
• Ensure that process design meets regulatory expectations, with gaps identified promptly and remediated effectively.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Demonstrate exemplary conduct and consistently uphold the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, regulatory conduct and business conduct across Standard Chartered Bank, including compliance—in letter and spirit—with all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters effectively and collaboratively.
Key stakeholders
• Head, Resolvability and Reverse Stress Testing
• Head, Valuation in Resolution
• Head, Operational Continuity in Resolution
• Recovery and Resolution Planning Team
• Finance teams
Motivations
• Motivated by delivering high-quality operational outcomes while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Energised by identifying opportunities for process improvement, driving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer and stakeholder experiences.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment that requires problem-solving, critical thinking, and effective decision-making.
• Driven by collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve shared business objectives and deliver sustainable business outcomes.
• Demonstrates resilience and adaptability when managing complex operational challenges, changing priorities, and continuous business transformation.
• Motivated by developing people, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and supporting team success through coaching and leadership.
Our Ideal Candidate
• 8+ years of experience in FP&A, Stress Testing, Treasury, Risk, business finance, corporate strategy or investor relations with specific financial institutions experience
• An ability to think both strategically and analytically and apply these skills to interpret internal and external events as they occur
• The individual should be fluent in reading bank financial statements and have a good understanding of banking products, capital and liquidity requirements, accounting methods and external disclosures
• Highly refined interpersonal and stakeholder communications skills as well as ability to extract and present key messages effectively
• A “Team player” approach is critical.
• CFA or accounting qualification is preferred but not essential
• Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines while delivering quality output to senior management
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Financial Modelling
• Stakeholder Management and collaboration across cross-functional teams
• Knowledge on financial statement interlinkages
• Project Management
• Analytical skills
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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