Job Summary

We are looking for a Finance student to join our Finance and Regulatory Reporting Team at Standard Chartered Bank AG Poland Branch. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work in an international Finance Team and support the team on a daily basis with tasks related to legal entity accounting.  We are looking for a part-time student (20 hours per week) for a 12-month contract with availability to work 4 hours per day Monday through Friday.

Key Responsibilities

• Work together with Finance colleagues and independently on assigned topics and tasks relating to legal entity accounting under IFRS and HGB in accordance with policy guidelines

• Support in month-end and year-end book closure activities and other reporting under both IFRS and HGB for Standard Chartered Bank AG and branches in France and Sweden. These entities offer various banking products, including but not restricted to Financial Markets, Transaction Banking and Corporate and Institutional Lending

• Use advanced excel skills to perform efficient finance processes in collaboration with offshore and onshore teams. This can include work on manual payments reconciliations, invoice processing, travel and expense claim bookings and preparation of journal entries

• Support in the intercompany processes including reconciliations, booking receipts, clearing FX differences

• Support in Balance Sheet substantiation process including tracking open transactions, reconciling with supporting evidence, preparing submissions

• Pre-payment schedules preparation and work on reconciling accruals

• Support the tax team with financial data input and monthly reconciliation of tax and VAT accounting

• Continuous contribution towards process improvements through:

• Challenging current practices and procedures and identifying opportunities for efficiencies 

• Identification of weaknesses in current processes and developing and implementing effective solutions

• Identifying opportunities for automating processes

Skills and Experience

• Studying for Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in accounting or finance related field, including studying HGB and IFRS

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

• Advanced knowledge of Excel

• A team player who enjoys interacting with people of all levels in a multicultural environment

• Willingness to learn, share responsibilities, facilitate collaboration, and support the success of others

• Experience in accounting would be a strong advantage 

• Certifications and training in IT and /or coding would be a strong advantage

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.

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