Job Summary

We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented individual to support day-to-day administrative and coordination activities related to hiring operations, contract management, and calendar scheduling for senior leadership. The role requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work efficiently across teams and functions.

Key Responsibilities

Hiring Coordination
•    Support the recruitment process by scheduling interviews, tracking candidate status, and maintaining hiring trackers.
•    Coordinate with recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates to ensure smooth communication.

Contract & Documentation
•    Assist in preparation, submission, and tracking of contract documents
•    Maintain organized records of all hiring and contractual documentation
•    Coordinate resource extension requests and follow up on approvals
•    Track and update workforce reports regularly

Approvals & Reporting
•    Manage approval workflows related to hiring, travel, and other administrative processes
•    Prepare and share summary reports as required

Calendar & Travel Management
•    Support senior management with calendar scheduling, meeting coordination, and follow-ups
•    Handle travel approval requests and assist with related logistics
General Administration
•    Provide administrative support to ensure efficient office operations
•    Liaise with internal teams to facilitate smooth communication and task completion
•    Coordination with teams for inputs to prepare decks for senior stakeholder meetings
•    Organise employee engagement sessions such as Town Halls, Learning sessions, Fireside chats 

Key stakeholders

•    FSS Mgmt, FSS Custody Squad, PSS and other infra related key vendors and stakeholders

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, 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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

•    Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, HR, or a related field
•    2 – 4 years of experience in administration, coordination, or HR support roles
•    Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) and basic understanding of HR systems or tools
•    Working knowledge of collaboration tools such as Confluence, ADO/JIRA
•    Strong organizational and multitasking abilities
•    Excellent communication and follow-up skills
•    Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information with professionalism.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Preferred Attributes

•    Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to work with minimal supervision
•    Prior experience with EA/PMO roles
•    Team player with a positive attitude and strong sense of ownership
•    Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

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.