JOB SUMMARY

Standard Chartered is a leading international bank operating in some of the most dynamic markets in the world, in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Our successful and sustainable business is built on doing tangible, long term good for our people, our customers and the communities we serve.

Financial Markets eTrading has defined an exciting strategy and aggressive product roadmap. The FM eTrading system developments team is a specialist team responsible for the design and development of proprietary set of systems that will differentiate the bank in its core markets. eTrading systems are aimed at numerous customer markets including external customers via the internet, sophisticated customers via API/point-to-point connectivity, internal users trading on behalf of customers around the globe and finally connectivity into multi-dealer platforms.

This role will join the eCommerce PMO team. The role will be primarily focussed on working on eCommerce Financials, Timesheets, Reporting and Tracking the Forecasts as well as monitoring and tracking hiring across locations for eCommerce area. The role also includes managing Clarity data for all eComm projects and as well as the eTrading Programme.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Collaborating with other department leaders to define, prioritize, and develop projects.
•    Planning project management, including setting deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and assigning team members to various deliverables.
•    Analyzing financial data, including project budgets, risks, and resource allocation.
•    Providing financial reports and budget outlines to Senior Stakeholders.
•    Overseeing the development of the project and ensuring that team members are carrying out their tasks efficiently while upholding the company's standards.
•    Drafting new and improving existing project management office policies and processes.

Business
•    Continuously evaluating projects to ensure they are meeting company standards, adhering to budgets, and meeting deadlines.
•    Accurately documenting the project's creation, development, and execution as well as documenting the project's scope, budget, and justification.
•    Work with various FM teams to ensure Financials are on track and reporting is accurate
•    Create reports or extracts for various Budget and forecast reporting at Project and Programme Level.
•    Co-ordinate with other PMOs to ensure resource allocations, project budgets etc are in sync with other Programmes.
•    Analysing financial data and implementing budgets

Processes
•    Experience and knowledge of change management principles and methodologies
•    Good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels.
•    Enthusiastic, driven, self-motivated with a focus on client and customer service
•    Very strong interpersonal skills including facilitation and coaching and able to lead and influence others
•    Committed to the development of all team members and continuous improvement of the Agile 
•    Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.

People & Talent 
•    Proven ability to work within a team environment.
•    Ability to make good / sound decisions and use independent judgement.
•    Strong reasoning, analytical and inter-personal skills.
•    Excellent attention to detail and time management.

Risk Management
•    Identify risks and issues early, plan mitigating steps and communicate these to stakeholders in a timely manner
•    Timely escalation of risks and issues and escalating to management at the earliest opportunity to ensure items are resolved in a timely manner

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.

Key Stakeholders
•    Financial Markets Portfolio team
•    FM Leadership team
•    Finance teams
•    Other FMPMO Teams

Qualifications

•    Bachelor /master’s degree in  Business Administration or Engineering

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Excel
•    Documentation
•    JIRA and Confluence 
•    Agile Process
•    Clarity
•    Sharepoint

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.