Job Summary

The Keystone Programme is a multi-year programme implementing ATLAS (Core Banking System), SC Pay (New Payments Platform) & Euronet (New ATM Switch) to replace current varied core banking applications in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Thailand.  The Keystone Programme will transform and modernise the Bank’s core system and operating model to optimise speed-to-market and value.  

The Keystone Finance & Resourcing Manager is accountable for the oversight of all activities related to Finance & Resources, ensuring timely and qualitative deliverables for headcount and financial reporting across the entire programme, including regular updates and ad hoc insight into actual costs, forecast, benefits and progress tracking against targets. Understanding of the Keystone programme to enable meaningful commentary around the financials is key. The Keystone Finance & Resourcing Manager is expected to be able to apply finance knowledge to project processes, think creatively and be able to respond to issues. Responsible for ongoing development of tools and templates to support effective financial management.

As the Keystone Finance & Resourcing Manager, the candidate should have demonstrated strong experience in Resource management and Finance management systems and be able to work with both technology and business stakeholders. The candidate should also have demonstrable experience in:
•    Outcome focused with excellent problem-solving abilities whilst exercising good judgment 
•    Stakeholder Management – possess the ability to work with direct Stakeholders across a range of functions and seniority levels 
•    Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation with an ability to engage and support a variety of stakeholder levels including senior management 
•    Adept at accurately summarizing, categorising, spotting trends in numbers 
•    High levels of personal accountability, proactive initiative taking, together with a pragmatic and customer-focused approach 
•    At least 10-15 years of experience in complex finance projects

Candidate should be able to demonstrate and have:
•    Excellent communication and influencing skills
•    Resilient personality to deal with pressure
•    Well-developed interpersonal skills, including the ability to work well as part of a team, establish and maintain effective networks and liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels and in an environment where priorities are subject to change
•    Capable of engaging key stakeholders and building alliances through active conversations including peer or more senior stakeholders who have no direct reporting relationships 
•    Welcomes different opinions
•    Strong team skills
•    Assertiveness with logical reasoning

RESPONSIBILITIES
Key Responsibilities include:
•    Finance & Resourcing Manager is responsible for managing financials, benefits and headcount reporting for the Keystone programme.
•    Prepare financial reporting for monthly, quarterly and annual cycles, including materials for Programme Steering Committee / Refinement Forum / Programme Monthly Reviews and data for Quarterly Performance Reviews and Monthly Performance Reviews
•    Run monthly financial and headcount reviews of performance and reporting.
•    Respond to ad hoc financial and headcount queries from stakeholders including Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Owners and T&O portfolio
•    Contribute to annual Corporate Plan budgeting cycle and ensure appropriate due diligence in submissions
•    Support strategic planning for the Keystone programme in multiyear financial and benefit plans.
•    Track, manage and report headcount and resourcing demand for Keystone
•    Detailed review of financial & resourcing forecasts and analysis of issues and trends
•    Run finance operation processes such as accruals and recharge / reclass submission, support headcount and resource management, manage Business Cost Upload process and update cost centres
•    Respond to financial control queries on balance sheet items and substantiation
•    Maintain financial information on Confluence / SharePoint / MS Teams
•    Other financial and headcount tasks required on an ad hoc basis
•    Maintain benefits tracking and realisation processes and template for Keystone 
•    Work closely with Finance business partner to ensure correct treatment of Keystone costs

Key Responsibilities

• Business
  Work closely with the Technology & Business to ensure status and timelines are agreed and aligned, and updated in respective forums
• Processes
  Process orientated and work to ensure artefacts / site are set-up and maintained to a satisfactory auditable level. 
• Risk Management
  Demonstrate a good understanding of Risk Management
• Governance
  Demonstrate a good understanding of Programme Governance

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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

•    Programme Director, Finance Business Partner, T&O Portfolio
•    Global, region and country management team
•    Global, region and country technology leads

Other Responsibilities
Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; 

Skills and Experience

• Excel, Microsoft Project, Word, Powerpoint
• Sharepoint & Confluence
• ADO / Jira
• SCB finance systems 

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     The candidate should have 10-15 years solid experience in Finance & Resource management related projects on large programmes’ and quality assurance activities.   
      
  LANGUAGES     Business English is mandatory

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.