Head, GCFO AI Lead(Singapore, India)

Job Summary

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•    The GCFO AI lead is accountable for transforming the Finance operating model through process excellence, re-engineering, intelligent automation, and artificial intelligence.
•   The role leads the redesign and optimization of GCFO's end-to-end processes, controls, data, and operating model, embedding simplified, standardized, and scalable ways of working across the function. As the architect of Finance transformation, the role drives continuous improvement, productivity, control effectiveness, and digital innovation, creating a highly efficient, insight-led, and AI-enabled Finance organisation.
•   Beyond GCFO, the role serves as the senior Finance representative across Bank-wide AI and transformation initiatives, ensuring GCFO priorities are reflected in the enterprise AI agenda while accelerating the adoption of responsible AI, automation, and emerging technologies across the function. The role partners with Technology, Data, Operations, Risk, and Business leaders to identify enterprise use cases, influence investment priorities, and scale innovation that delivers measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Define and own the GCFO Process Excellence and AI Strategy, establishing a clear vision for a future-state Finance platform that is integrated, scalable, resilient, data-driven, and AI-enabled.
•    Shape and deliver the long-term GCFO transformation agenda, translating strategic objectives into a coherent platform roadmap with clear outcomes, milestones, investment priorities, and measurable business value.
•    Serve as the Finance and Treasury champion for enterprise-wide AI transformation, representing GCFO across Bank-wide AI initiatives, influencing cross-functional priorities, and ensuring alignment with the Bank's AI strategy.
•    Partner with senior leaders across Finance, Risk, Technology, Operations, Data, and the Businesses to identify, prioritize, and scale AI opportunities that deliver sustainable productivity, control, and commercial benefits.
•    Architect future-ready operating models that support business growth, enhance organizational agility, and reduce complexity, operational risk, and cost.
•    Champion intelligent automation and digital transformation through the adoption of workflow technologies, RPA, AI/ML, agentic capabilities, and next-generation productivity solutions.
•    Ensure alignment with Group Finance, Risk, Technology, Data, and regulatory strategies while maintaining strong governance, controls, resilience, and audit readiness across both traditional and digital-asset environments.
•    Contribute to the development of the Bank's AI standards, governance frameworks, control environment, and Responsible AI practices, ensuring safe, ethical, and compliant adoption of AI across the enterprise.
•    Monitor emerging AI technologies, regulatory developments, and industry-leading practices, identifying opportunities that advance Finance and Treasury capabilities while strengthening the Bank's competitive advantage.

Business
•    Strengthen GCFO’s business partnering model with Finance, Risk, Technology, and the wider business.
•    Ensure GCFO PE and AI materially improves decision-making quality, speed, and insight through predictive, prescriptive, and generative analytics.
•    Support growth, product innovation, and balance-sheet optimisation, including emerging tokenised financial products.
•    Act decisively to address risk and control weaknesses, ensuring issues are remediated and escalated appropriately.

Processes
•    Process, Control & Organisation Layer: Establish integrated controllership and operating-model capabilities including iCon, ARIS, Signavio, ProHance, M7, CIMCON, ServiceNow, and WalkMe, embedding control-by-design and auditability.
•    Drive standardisation & harmonisation of processes across regions & business units
•    Drive technology enablement and integration across a complex systems landscape including SAP, non-SAP ERP applications, and emerging AI solutions, ensuring seamless data flow and process automation that reduces manual effort and strengthens controls.
•    Pioneer the adoption of Agent AI and intelligent automation within controllership processes, evaluating use cases, managing implementation, and realizing measurable benefits in efficiency, accuracy, and strategic value delivery.
•    Intelligence Layer: Deliver AI-enabled capabilities including Knowledge Graphs, vector stores, RAG, Digital Twins, LLMs, and Agents to enable advanced analytics and decision support across finance and digital-asset domains. 
•    Define defect prevention programs & implement mistake-proofing techniques across critical processes

People & Talent 
•    Build and lead a high-performing GCFO Process excellence organisation spanning platform ownership, product management, data, AI, engineering, and digital-asset expertise.
•    Develop future-ready GCFO talent and act as an evangelist for GCFO digital enablement, and AI adoption.

Risk Management
•    Reinforce an exemplary risk and control culture across all GCFO platforms and processes, including those supporting digital assets and tokenised products.
•    Maintain compliance with key regulatory and financial reporting standards.
•    Strengthen the control environment while driving process simplification and efficiency.
•    Embed audit readiness through disciplined governance, documentation, and testing.

Governance 
•    Establish control and review frameworks for GCFO platforms and processes, ensuring compliance with Group Control Governance and EUC policies.
•    Define and update relevant policies, standards, and guidelines, and ensure platforms are benchmarked against industry best practice.

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, regulatory compliance, and business conduct across GCFO.
•    Resolve audit and regulatory issues with sustainable, long-term solutions.

Key stakeholders
•    Group CFO and GCFO Leadership Team
•    GCFO COO Management Team
•    Group Finance, Risk, Technology, and Data Office
•    Audit, Compliance, and Regulators
•    Regional and Cluster CFOs.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    20+ years of experience with a strong track record of transformation in Finance & Accounting including controllership , FP&A , Regulatory reporting etc

•    Proven experience delivering large-scale finance transformation programmes in an international bank or equivalent regulated institution
•    Strong understanding of Generative AI , LLMs , AI agents , Automation and Analytics
•    Quantifiable benefits through cost reduction, productivity , faster close , better forecasting and controls
•    Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.
•    Finance AI use cases – Experience applying AI to forecasting, reporting , treasury ,controllership and reconciliations  
•    AI Governance – Strong understanding of responsible AI, model risk , controls and regulatory requirements
•    Technology ecosystem – Expert in ERP platforms such as SAP , cloud platforms , GenAI platforms and enterprise AI tools
•    Deep, hands-on expertise in digital assets, process mapping, analysis, and redesign using tools like ARIS, Signavio, or Celonis
•    Strong understanding of accounting, valuation, liquidity, capital, and risk implications of crypto assets, tokenised deposits, stablecoins, CBDCs, and other digital instruments.
•    Experience integrating on-chain and off-chain data and distributed-ledger technologies into enterprise finance and risk platforms.
•    Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification preferred
•    Professional certifications (CA, CPA, CFA, CIMA, or equivalent) highly valued

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Proven experience in delivering large scale global solution deployments preferably in the financial services environment
•    Finance Domain expertise
•    Process reengineering
•    AI Strategy Roadmap
•    AI Tools and Assets
•    Identification & Management of project Risk/Assumptions/Issues/ Dependencies
•    Advanced Components, e.g. Knowledge Graphs, Agents, LLMs
•    Data and Analytics
•    Change and Adoption
•    Banking and Regulatory knowledge

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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