Job Summary

The FM Business Planning and Strategy team requires a financial PMO to support the management of a large investment portfolio. The successful candidate will be a Financial PMO Analyst with an educational background in Business Administration, majoring in either IT Management or Finance in addition, complemented by consulting experience, preferably in management consulting. He or she will be a trusted advisor to our initiative leads and scrum masters and enable them to “Do the Right Thing”, maintaining strong financial and process governance across the portfolio. In addition, the incumbent has a keen interest in Financial Markets and new emerging technologies, which will help them to grow in the bank.

Key Responsibilities

•    Support programme/project owners by managing financials holistically and updating Clarity in a timely manner to reflect accurate financial forecasts following financial principles e.g. Opex, Capex, accruals etc.
•    Perform regular financial report consolidation and analysis at all levels – project, programme and portfolio
•    Facilitate the fulfilment of ad hoc requests from key stakeholders pertaining to project/programme management reporting
•    Support Program SC/Refinement Forums with the necessary programme/segment data for reporting
•    Analyse financial trends, highlight issues and work with relevant parties to report and resolve issues
•    Tracking and reporting of project milestones, risks and issues and project artefacts and ensure these are managed in line with SCB’s programme/project governance policies
•    Work with external auditors and finance team to manage the portfolio’s audit requirements by working with the relevant Programme Managers/PMs to provide the necessary information to the auditors in a timely manner
•    Ensure control around vendor engagements (SOWs, Sourcing/Engagement requests, supplier management processes and controls)
•    Support headcount approvals, tracking and reporting based on headcount strategies
•    Support the analysis and review of production support flowthrough submissions
•    Support the annual budget process
•    Produce monthly management reports by consolidating project achievements and concerns
•    Support Ways of Working with any ad hoc inputs required for the respective forums and stakeholders

Skills and Experience

Candidates with 10+ years of relevant experience

• • Microsoft Excel
  • Clarity or other project financials management system
  • Accounting principles
  • Dashboard  and report building

Qualifications

• Education       Bachelor’s Degree In Business or A Related Field (Economics, IT Management)

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.

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