Job Summary

The Cost Optimisation Manager is required to join the Vendor & Cost Optimisation COO team. The team is predominantly responsible for driving the cost optimisation and transformation programme under the FFG programme. This role is expected to compute the cost saves, generate report and publish in appropriate portal.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Contribute towards identifying cost saves, track and report business efficiencies/cost optimisations across T&A verticals.
•    Set appropriate tone and expectations from peers and work in collaboration with the management team, finance and other internal partners as required.
•    Assist teams where required for cost validation and other budget related requirements.

Business
•    Create standardized monthly executive level packs & share with respective stakeholders.
•    Generate monthly finops reports for AWS & Azure consumptions.
•    Liaise with the infra cost optimisation SPOCs and estimate the monthly saves.
•    Support with ad hoc data analysis and reporting.
•    Schedule meeting with finance and validate computed saves. Book saves in the appropriate portal.

Processes
•    Create and enforce data quality reporting standards, principles, and best practices to ensure consistency in the monthly reporting.

People & Talent 
•    The role will report to Head-vendor & cost optimisation.
•    Act as a thought leader with strong inclination towards continuous learning.
•    Innovate new ideas to simplify the current ASIS processes and improve productivity.
•    Build a culture for reporting standards and be an influencer to others

Risk Management
•    Responsible for proactively seeking regular assurance that function is performing to an acceptable risk and control standards.
•    Responsible to act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and, if necessary, escalated through the relevant committees. 
•    Responsible to balance business performance delivery and cost management with risk and control matters to ensure that it does not materially threaten the Group, remaining within risk appetite.
•    Responsible to work in collaboration with risk and control teams.

Governance 
•    Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. 
•    Ensure compliance with all salient SCB data governance frameworks where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream. 

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.

Key stakeholders
•    Global Head of cloud and other Technology & Architecture (T&A) MTs
•    T&O Finance MTs
•    Domain Chief Architects and teams
•    Domain CIOs and CIO delivery teams

Other Responsibilities
•    Embrace and practise SCB’s brand promise of Here for Good and corporate values.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
•    Responsible for building a culture of good conduct.

Skills and Experience

Excel    Advanced
Business Intelligence tools    Entry
Cloud computing    Expert
Power Point    Advanced
Share Point    Advanced
Big Data Management    Entry
General Ledger    Advanced

Qualifications

•    Degree in finance or equivalent with 15 or more years of total experience.
•    Strong knowledge in finance budgeting.
•    Demonstrated experience in designing complex reports with inputs from multiple data source. 
•    Understanding of data governance tools and frameworks and regulatory compliance standards
•    Experience in large, complex organisations, ability to handle cultural diversity and managing senior stakeholders.
•    Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
•    Strong knowledge of the banking and financial services industry.

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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