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 10-12 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, etc. 

Strategy
• Representing budget control for each projects for full year.
• Ownership and accountability of the project from conception through to post-implementation review, ensuring all necessary governance steps, and testing practices are followed correctly and completely.
• Take ownership for the delivery of agreed business outcomes according to time, budget and scope.
• Enforce a structured approach to project delivery within the team to realize synergies and efficiencies where possible.
  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
 Business
• Ensure KPIs for the respective projects are green for all the parameters.
• Stakeholders management – communication 

Processes
• 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%. 

People & Talent
• Allocation of the resources to the activities/tasks as per project requirements. 
• Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders including appropriate staff in the organization on the progress of the project
  Provide updates/reports on weekly and monthly tasks.
• Support any ad hoc requests from the Program office, project managers and workstream lead.
• Ensure resource availability and allocation

Risk Management
• Engage with Delivery SPOCs and updates to RAID log in the tool on defined frequency 

Governance
• Review Control Metrics and QPR fortnightly dashboard and act as required. 
• Governance activities for Customer Go live
• Governance around Project setup and Closure

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.
  [Fill in for regulated roles] 
• Lead the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment. 
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key stakeholders

•    Central PMO
•    Journey PMO Leads
•    Delivery leads

Skills and Experience

• Communication verbal - written
• Project Financials – Monthly forecast, Variance analysis, budget preparation
• Project Management and Governance activities
• Clarity, Microsoft Excel, Confluence, JIRA
• ADO

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a project management role, or PMO role
• Certified Project Management Professional a plus
• Experience in managing projects using both Agile and Waterfall methodology
• Resilient and able to adapt changing priorities and conflicting requirements
• Must have strong time management skills (including multi-tasking) and be able to prioritize and control activities and deliver results within budgetary and resource constraints.
• Must have experience of managing project finances – forecasting, actuals, accruals, estimating
• Must possess excellent reporting, (written & oral) communication

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.