Job Details

Project Manager PU Support
Job Description
Requisition Number:  43253
Job Location:  Chennai, IND
Work Type:  Office Working
Employment Type:  Fixed Term Worker
Posting Start Date:  28/11/2025
Posting End Date:  13/12/2025
Job Description: 

Key Responsibilities

•    This is a Fixed Term Position for 12 months. 
•    The key responsibilities of the role holder are to perform the Project Management activities for the transition and capability workstream of the Process Universe Roll-out Programme. 
•    This requires managing the project workstream, following the banks change management requirements, as well as a having a good understanding and experience in process, risk and controls. 
•    The role will be part of a lean team, working with collaborative teams in an agile environment; the role holder will be expected to adopt a flexible approach across multiple initiatives and to be hands on.

Change Delivery
•    This role necessitates significant change management support, impact assessment, planning and stakeholder engagement (across PU Transformation at various level), working to tight deadlines and addressing sensitive potential solutions while remaining collaborative, constructive, and transparent in approach.
•    The role holder will be responsible for providing consultative SME inputs and leading oversight of change delivery across process, risk and control activities, including maintaining consistency in communications, planning and governance across multiple projects, and addressing complex challenges, activities and deliverables across Process transformation programme

Business
The role holder will be responsible for providing SME inputs on governance and impact assessment across process, risk and control. The role holder will employ best practice in change management, as well as continually focusing on the Bank’s core objectives.

The role holder is responsible for the following in undertaking the role:
•    SME support on governance related matters on process, risk and control 
•    Impact Assessments for organizational readiness for change and areas of potential risk 
•    Undertake regular engagement with initiative stakeholders to support delivery 
•    Input to communications and training around process, risk and control, act as SME support point of contact

In pursuit of these responsibilities the role holder is expected to:
•    Have a sound and in-depth understanding of Risk and control assessment and governance
•    Understanding and experience in Process excellence
•    Be able to engage with stakeholders at various levels across the Bank addressing complexity with continual focus on outcomes
•    Realise synergies and efficiencies and ensure consistency in delivery of outcomes wherever possible
•    Have relevant experience in governance and policy
•    Experience in presenting and developing materials for Senior stakeholder review is also desired
•    Able to thrive in fast-paced environment 
•    Lead with autonomy and hands-on approach 

Processes
•    Adhere to such process and governance requirements as requested by line management
•    Identify and engage relevant stakeholders 

Risk Management
•    Ensure all activity adheres to the Bank’s Risk Management Framework, with a specific focus on ensuring an effective framework design for risk management

Governance 
•    Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role. 
•    Deliver ‘effective governance’; capability to challenge colleagues effectively; and willingness to work in an open and cooperative manner with all.

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.
•    Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment. 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders
•    Programme Management and Process Excellence Team
•    Risk and Control Programmes
•    HR and CABM
•    Key Risk & CFCR colleagues
•    Business leadership
•    PU downstream/ upstream system owners

Other Responsibilities
•    As delegated by line management from time to time.

Qualifications

Education
•    Bachelors Degree
Certifications
•    Lean, Six Sigma

Skills and Experience

•    Risk and control SME
•    ERMF, Framework, Policy, standards
•    ARIS, M7

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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