Job Summary

This role will support the smooth running of the CRES and SCM governance frameworks (MPRs, QPRs etc).   The role-holder will support all aspects of the key decision making forums: 
•    Review and challenge of finance performance across investment and BAU, in support of prioritisation and trade off decision making  
•    Support definition/refinement of the Global change framework for CRES and SCM, from Strategy to Execution in line with Bank standards
•    Oversight of function-wide investment and BAU spend ensuring holistic prioritisation and trade off decisions are affected
•    Support giving an independent view of current outlook to validate / challenge progress against plan
•    Support development of MI required to support the assurance of CP outcomes and provide input into communication materials including, but not limited to, committee papers and regulatory updates

Key Responsibilities

• Awareness and understanding of the S&T Business Plans and strategy including the scorecard metrics.  
• Awareness of scorecard metrics and objectives of Governance forum  and its alignment to overall CRES and SCM organisation business plan, including how this is informed by Client Portfolio and Strategy Planning.
• Deliver all allocated activities to the highest quality standard and call out when this is not the case. 
• Prepare, manage and maintain, and track quality of key deliverables in terms of value creation from each initiative with clear alignment to CRES/SCM business plan and scorecard metrics.
• Ensure all initiative deliverables, artefacts and approvals are stored in a structured discoverable format for future recovery and audit – including working with Strategic Programmes PMO
• Ensuring Clarity and any other relevant tooling are up to date including initiatives’ unified backlog, impact to business scorecard, key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and capacity management to be tracked and reported to the appropriate governance bodies.
• Continuously seek feedback and improve the governance and improve portfolio governance
• Support Chief Product Owners and Product Owners to facilitate MPRs and underlying governance forums.
• Closely monitor High Operational Risk items and adhere to the OR policy on project management
• Closely monitor in-flight strategic projects and review key risks, issues and mitigating actions. Support the  appropriate escalation and management attention.
• Ensure all submissions to committees and working groups (MPR/QPR) are of the right quality and are timely.
• Review, control and report on financial status of the individual components and overall workstream as per the bank’s standards and workstream governance.

Key stakeholders

• CPO and PO
• CRES and SCM Management Team
• ECM
• Finance organisation
• CRES Strategic Projects Group
• T&O (CIO Teams)

Skills

• PM, PMO or governance experience in large and complex, multi-geography, multi-disciplinary projects/BAU environment
• Excellent communication and presentation skills: PowerPoint, Excel, written & oral.
• Financial management capabilities: budget tracking, planning, forecast and variance explanations
• Knowledge of Project Management standards
• Knowledge of risk governance frameworks & processes

Qualifications and Experience

• A Bachelor's degree showing critical thinking/problem solving skills and communications is preferred. A Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification may be advantageous 
• A minimum of 5 years of PM, PMO or governance experience in large and complex, multi-geography, multi-disciplinary projects.
• Highly entrepreneurial with a high level of energy, dedication and an unrelenting drive to deliver value.
• Strong sense of personal ownership and responsibility in accomplishing the organisation’s goal. Is confident and will roll-up his/her sleeves to drive success
• Able to get things done in a quick-paced environment. Be transparent and open around what doesn’t work and what does, proposing changes where necessary
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills (successfully lead and managed end-to-end technology services and or technology operations) with ability to manage multiple deadlines and effectively prioritise
• Experience of influencing relevant stakeholders and decision makers, and executing decisions efficiently and consistently
• Excellent communication skills – oral, written and presentation; technical reporting writing across various types of target audiences.

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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