Finance Operations Officer

About Standard Chartered 

We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.  

To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit.  It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviors - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.

We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realize their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organization. This, in turn, helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.

Job Purpose:

• Support the hub in the processing of payments and maintenance of spoke General ledger
• Review the fixed assets ledger, ensuring that additions and disposals are properly captured.
• Reconcile SUN sundry and suspense accounts on a monthly basis and ensures outstanding items are uplifted before expiry of the entry and monitor them on a weekly basis.
• To undertake periodic self-assessment on key controls to assess the proper functioning and adequacy of existing controls.
• Assist in coordinating, facilitating and promoting understanding of operational risk and in implementation and management of OR within the unit.

Key Responsibilities;

• Prepare invoices for transmission to the hub, ensuring that invoices not subject to purchase orders are appropriately authorized and coded
• Ensure all Vendor reconciliations are performed on a regular basis and no longer outstanding Vendor payments
• Ensure that all invoices have a PO number
• Where cheques are printed locally, load stationery and print cheques
• Answer queries for unmatched invoices and follows up to close open pending invoices
• Ensure all stakeholders are made aware of direct credits.
• To report unit’s OR issues and losses to UORM.
• To assist UORM in developing and updating of procedures, controls and monitoring plans for Operational Risk Management
• Act as OR coordinator for the section.
• To adhere to the agreed KCSA plans and approach.
• To identify and report all exceptions on noncompliance with standard controls
• To identify and report all weaknesses inherent in the standard controls.
• To maintain proper record keeping on all KCSA related activities.
• To maintain independence in the conduct of KCSA, i.e. not selecting and reviewing sample of self-performed transactions. 

 Key Relationships:

• FCU
• Accounts Processing Officer –Hub
• SSPM
• Finance Operation Risk Officer
• Business Finance
• TRA ( External)

 Contributes To:

• Delivery of SLA between the hub and spoke
• Timely  Transmission of invoices 
• Team orientation
• Identification of errors/unusual items by Hub 
• Experience/ Knowledge Required:
• University degree. Part professional qualification e.g. ACCA level 1, CPA 1 or CIMA or HND with 2 years experience in a medium-sized organization is an added advantage
• Knowledge of Sun Systems and generally high level of computer literacy and understanding of business computing environment
• Good communications and interpersonal skills