Senior Manager, T&o Finance

Job ID: 41065

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 2 Oct 2025

**Job Summary**

**About the Job**
- Technology and Operations (T&O) is a 40,000+ employees and $4b cost base organization that provides Technology solutions and Operational excellence for the Bank. T&O Finance function is a dynamic team of 175+ people across multiple locations that supports the T&O organization.
- This is a business partner role where you will work closely with Tech Domain Leads to deliver accurate and timely insights to support executive decision making, while also maintaining strong financial governance and controls.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Partner with Tech Domain Leads to deliver cost targets.
- Budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis of costs, headcount and recharges, highlighting trends and root cause of variances.
- Cost benefit analysis to support decision making in new business cases or contracts.
- Ensure proper financial stewardship and alignment with corporate governance standards.
- Identify bottlenecks in current finance processes and take the initiative to automate and streamline them.

**Key stakeholders**
- Tech CFO
- Head of Tech Finance
- Tech Heads and Business Planning Managers
- Program & Technical leads for Technology Simplification
- T&O Finance

**Process Improvement**:

- Simplifying, standardising and automating cost booking model, allocation processes and reporting framework across countries /business units / segments to reach a harmonised and centralised one firm approach, light to No-touch processes flows, enabling front to back visibility of costs for business and address inconsistencies to booking to chart of accounts.
- Design the target state solution and target state processes, with responsibility for prioritization of items and critical path delivery
- Drive the establishment of a target operating model and internal capability to support and drive ongoing change / enhancement initiatives
- Ensure strong engagement with senior leaders and stakeholders across Finance.
- Responsible for risk and issue resolution
- Build strong relationships with key delivery partners, and ensure efficiencies and synergies are realised across programmes.
- Build effective communication channels with wider senior finance leadership.
- Ensure effective governance and project management standards are applied across all delivery responsibilities

**Technology and Data**:

- Establishing a centralised cost driver database for single source of data and data lineage across a refined number of cost keys,capturing financial and non-financial data to enable automated allocation keys and driver based insights, linking directly to the P&L.

**People**:

- Creates capacity in the cost teams to move away from data collation/reconciliation to driving insightful analytics through greater access and consistency of quality data.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage with senior leaders within Finance and outside finance is also a must. the role will have direct engagement with other workstream Leads, GPO’s and senior Finance stakeholders across the Bank.

**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.

**Other Responsibilities**
- Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in TTO Finance BPO team, Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats).

**Skills and Experience**
- A seasoned Finance Professional with a leading Global Financial Institution.
- Strong Analytical and Strategic mindset, coupled with a thorough understanding of Performance Management.
- Significant experience of working with senior management team and of interfacing with and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Experience of having participated in any relevant strategic or finance related projects like Business Efficiency, cost optimisation/reduction projects.
- Substantial experience of banking, depth and breadth of knowledge in processes especially in the areas of Management Reporting.
- Experience of having led large teams including senior & experienced professionals.
- A leader, a team player with the management ability and track record to secure the confidence and respect of the peers, stakeholders and the executive management team.
- Ability to culturally orient in diverse & international team environment and lead and inspire multi-disciplinar