Job Summary

•    The successful candidate will be part of Aspire GCFO Change PMO Team, taking complete ownership and accountability for PMO functions for the Journey he/she is assigned to, which includes budget controls for all projects within the Journey and complete accountability of all the processes of the project from conception stage to implementation and post-implementation review. Ensure all necessary governance steps are followed and completed as per the standards.

What we are looking for in the candidate

Candidate background

•    The candidate must have at least 8-10 years of relevant experience with banks, Financial Institutions or Consulting firms with strong project management skills

Key expectations

•    Strong Project management expertise
•    Should have strong expertise in Project Financials, Governance, RAID management &Resource management.
•    Hands-on skill on any PPM application such as Clarity.

Strategy

•    General awareness of the objectives of the programme and alignment of the objectives at initiative level with overall GCFO Strategy

Business

Core Deliverables

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation as per Change Delivery Standards.
• Allocation of the resources to the activities/tasks as per project requirements.
• Ensure project financials are always up to date.
• Create monthly forecast in collaboration with ITO PMO and the PM to ensure variance is below 5%.
• Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project
• Ensure delivery of the benefits as per the project execution document.
• Provide updates/reports on weekly and monthly tasks.
• Support any ad hoc requests from the Program office, project managers and workstream lead.
• Ensure project hygiene and governance are well always maintained.

Processes

Key responsibilities

• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Ensure KPIs for the respective projects are green for all the parameters.
• Stakeholders management – communication, issue remediation, risk management
• Overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of a project in clarity.
• Coordinating internal resources and third parties/vendors to raise POs and receipts for invoices.

People & Talent

•    Project utilises teams and skillsets in various locations, experience in a virtual project environment will also be useful.

Risk Management

•    Identify and manage Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies (RAID) on initiatives across the Programme and ensure on-time updates and escalations as per the Change Delivery Standards (CDS).

Governance

Programme Management Awareness

• Complete project definition in line with Programme level strategy
• Throughout the life of the project review and prioritise to ensure ongoing alignment
• Ensure development of benefit profiles, and active management of benefit realisation
• Ensure robust and transparent programmatic controls including resource, financial, schedule and quality management, status reporting and governance – including use of automated tooling (Clarity)
• Ensure interdependencies with other projects and programmes are managed effectively
• Ongoing management of project capitalisation ratio’s and forecast

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.

Soft skills

•    Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills
•    Proactive, self-starter, autonomous Self-motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results

Diversity & Inclusion

•    Standard Chartered is committed to diversity and inclusion. We believe that a work environment which embraces diversity will enable us to get the best out of the broadest spectrum of people to sustain strong business performance and competitive advantage. By building an inclusive culture, each employee can develop a sense of belonging and can maximize their personal potential.

Skills and Experience

•    PPM-Clarity
•    Project/Programme PMO
•    Microsoft Office- Excel, Power point, MS Project, Visio

Qualifications

•    Education     Graduate (general)
•    Certifications     Pmp®/prince2® or agile certified preferred
•    Languages     English 

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.