Job Summary

•    The Senior Manager, Cost Management Centre of Excellence (COE) at Standard Chartered GBS will enable business owners, function heads, and senior management with data and analysis support to understand, assess, verify, and challenge business performance related aspects (Cost, Revenue, investments, and Headcount)

Key Responsibilities

• Lead investment analytics delivery
  Own end-to-end execution across spend analytics, benefits tracking, delivery performance, and data management, ensuring consistent portfolio-wide insights
  •  Drive cost transparency and financial control
  Establish clear visibility across budgets, forecasts, actuals, and allocations, with structured tracking of cost drivers, utilisation, and overruns 
  •  Lead cost optimisation and efficiency initiatives
  Identify cost reduction opportunities through benchmarking, deep-dives, and resource optimisation, driving actionable outcomes across portfolios
  •  Enable portfolio performance and early risk visibility
  Oversee tracking of milestones, risks, dependencies, and KPIs, with forward-looking views on delivery slippage, cost overruns, and benefit erosion
  •  Own benefits realisation and value tracking
  Drive robust tracking of realised vs. planned benefits, including variance analysis and elimination of duplicate benefit attribution
  •  Build scalable data and reporting ecosystem
  Standardise data, automate reporting, and deliver executive-ready dashboards and insights to support stakeholder decision making.

Skills and Experience

·    9+ years of experience in banking / consulting (with global banks), with focus on cost control, optimisation, and investment analytics
·    Strong understanding of front-office cost drivers, banking products, and P&L dynamics
·    Experience in investment analytics and portfolio performance tracking, including benefits realisation and delivery metrics
·    Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills
·    Experience with analytics and visualization tools (Tableau / Power BI preferred; familiarity with Clarity or similar portfolio management tools is a plus)
·    Exposure to investor relations / senior stakeholder engagement is advantageous
·    Strategic mindset, with ability to structure complex data into clear, actionable insights
·    Strong communication, presentation, and documentation skills, with experience engaging senior stakeholders
·    Strong problem-solving ability, with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities and driving outcomes
·    Prior team management experience is a plus
 

Qualifications

•    MBA, PGDM, CA
•    Certifications in CFA, FRM

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.