Director & Head, Capital, Treasury India Hub

Job Summary

•    Treasury works closely with senior management, the businesses, Country CEOs / CFOs, and Finance to manage and promote the bank’s liquidity, capital, and balance sheet position. Treasury is laser-focussed on its vision to be “Open, progressive and trusted, working commercially with our partners” to create sustainable value by balancing the supply and demand of liquidity and capital.
•    Treasury Capital is responsible for the management and optimization of the firm’s capital, balance sheet, and structural liquidity, ensuring resilience, regulatory compliance, and efficient deployment of capital across the organization. Within the Global Capability Centre (GCC) model, Treasury Capital plays a pivotal role in delivering standardized, well-controlled, and scalable capital processes by partnering closely with Group Treasury, Risk, Finance, and regional stakeholders. The function supports critical regulatory and strategic initiatives, including ICWP/ICAAP, capital stress testing, recovery and resolution planning, and balance sheet optimization, while driving global consistency, process excellence, and transformation.
•    The Head of Treasury Capital, India will lead the establishment and growth of a strategic Treasury Capital capability within the Treasury India Hub, supporting both Group and Country Treasury objectives. The role is accountable for migrating, industrializing, and executing complex Treasury Capital processes in India, with a strong focus on standardization, control, and regulatory integrity. As a senior leader within the hub, this role will partner with global Treasury Capital leadership to deliver transformation outcomes, build deep subject-matter expertise, and position India as a global centre of excellence for Treasury Capital activities.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Keep up to date with the Group’s business strategy and ensure the Capital frameworks are aligned to that.
•    Embed an analytics-led insights framework for capital management
•    Develop an agile operating rhythm to adapt processes to evolving strategic themes
•    Identify, prioritise and execute capital optimisation initiatives
•    Support strategic balance sheet and capital decision-making through high-quality analysis
Business
•    Keep up to date with the Group’s business strategy and ensure the Capital frameworks are aligned to that.
•    Deliver core capital responsibilities including:
        Capital forecasting, budgeting and corporate plan
        Sensitivity analysis, scenario modelling and stress testing
•    Embed BCBS 239 principles into capital and prudential deliverables
•    Own change management for capital-related regulatory and policy changes
•    Lead regulatory consultation interpretation, response and advocacy
•    Ensure strong outcomes in engagements with auditors and regulators
Processes
•    Lead the safe migration of large-scale capital processes from Group and Country into India
•    Own end-to-end process understanding across capital activities (e.g. ICWP / ICAAP)
•    Decompose, standardise and streamline complex processes across jurisdictions
•    Identify control gaps, weaknesses and inefficiencies, design remediation
•    Drive automation, digitisation and simplification of capital processes
•    Ensure migrated processes meet Group and Country regulatory, control and governance standards
•    Establish scalable, resilient operating models that satisfy both Group and local requirements

People & Talent
•    Lead a diverse team of skilled and experienced people in India.
•    Optimise team structure to enhance collaboration both within Treasury and with key partners in Finance, CPM, Technology and Change in India and the clusters.  
•    Attract, retain and develop talent to build a team with a diverse set of skillsets and core functionalities to create multiple approaches to problem solving.
•    Lead through example by building the appropriate culture and values; and set appropriate tone and expectations from the team.
•    Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks. 
•    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives
Risk Management
•    Own capital-related governance frameworks, including structural effects
•    Lead preparation and approvals for:
        ALCO / RALCO
        Board Risk Committee
        Board-level capital updates
•    Ensure compliance with Group policies and regulatory requirements
•    Conduct periodic gap analysis and attest compliance
•    Oversee activities related to:
        Profit retention
        Capital issuances
        Corporate structure changes

Governance
•    Assess the effectiveness arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the Capital frameworks and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas
•    Understand the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role. 
•    Contribute to delivering ‘effective governance’ by actively challenging Treasury / Business / Risk counterparts; and willingness to work with the Prudential Regulatory Authority in an open and cooperative manner.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    See Risk Management section above for regulatory deliverables.
•    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.

Key stakeholders/Committees
•    Global Treasurer
•    Treasury Liquidity, Capital, Recovery & Resolution Planning, Issuance, Markets
•    Regional & Country Treasury teams
•    Business stakeholders in CCIB, CPBB and SC Ventures
•    CPM and FRM
•    Financial Planning & Analytics
•    Country & Business Finance
•    Various other Finance teams (e.g., Regulatory Reporting, BSA and Disclosures)
•    Treasury CRO
•    Technology & Change organisation
•    Investor Relations
•    Rating Agencies, Investors
•    Regulators
•    GALCO
•    Board Risk Committee (BRC)
•    Digital Asset Risk Committee (DRC – attending as permanent invitee)

Skills and Experience

•    Balance Sheet Management
•    Funding & Liquidity Risk
•    Funding & Liquidity Regulations
•    People management
•    Interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book
•    Funds Transfer Pricing
•    Product / Business Knowledge
•    Strategic Change Leadership
•    Financial Reporting and Performance Management
•    Planning, Modelling, Forecasting
•    Banking Technology Infrastructure

Qualifications

•    Degree in Finance (MBA) / Economics / Quantitative fields from a reputed institution.
•    Finance Professionals (Qualified Chartered Accountant) or Certifications like FRM, PRM or CFA is advantageous
•    Over 15+ years proven experience in Treasury Capital, Balance Sheet Management, Asset & Liability Management and/or Finance / Risk with strong Prudential Regulation, Balance Sheet & Sources / Uses of Funding from top-tier banks / consultancy firms
•    Familiarity with banking book and trading book products and their impact on balances sheet, as well as funding requirements that arise from off-balance sheet positions
•    Proven track record in process migration, transformation or shared services build-out
•    Experience in data analysis, data architecture, data transformations, building end to end inhouse data flows (pipes) from source to output, in a bank environment is advantageous
•    Ability to understand, define and articulate business requirements in a clear, precise manner (with project management experience is advantageous).
•    Experience in dealing with strong stakeholders, both quantitatively and qualitatively.
•    Ability and proven leadership skills to lead large teams across multiple locations.
•    Good stakeholder management, able to see the commercial value on business intent whilst able to translate the impact on funding sources.
•    Ability to think objectively and commercially to help identify solutions to potential problems or emerging risks on the horizon via funding simulations and contingency planning
•    Experience with writing and presenting qualitative papers and presenting a plan, and reasons for deviations to that plan to Executive/Board level.
•    Ability to scope and conduct data intensive numerical studies and present the results in a concise and clear manner to audiences.
•    Able to work independently yet a great team player.
•    Proven track record of leading global teams & high performance