Job Summary

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Role Summary
•    Acts as Delivery Lead for the Calculations & Models Workstream within the Programme
•    Accountable for delivery of regulatory calculations, models, and associated outputs into reporting
•    Responsible for managing scope, timelines, budget, and delivery outcomes, and coordinating across multiple teams
•    Plays a key role in joining up IT, Finance Change, Models, and Interpretation teams, as well as aligning with Data, Operating Model, and Reporting workstreams

Workstream scope & objectives
The role is responsible for overseeing delivery against the formal Calcs & Models objectives:
•    Delivery of regulatory calculations leveraging existing TWD modules  
•    Development of SABRE GRACE calculation module (RWA / Capital calculations)
•    Development of FRAME platform for IRB models
•    Delivery of regulatory calculations using SAP Rise data inputs
•    Oversight of regulatory interpretations and their implementation

Key Responsibilities

Core accountabilities
•    Delivery ownership
•    Overall accountable for delivery of Calcs & Models outcomes
•    Manage scope, budget, timelines, RAG status, and Path to Green
•    Ensure delivery plans are maintained and aligned across teams
•    
Cross-functional coordination
•    Coordinate across:
o    SABRE IT  
o    Finance Change / Capital Calculations
o    Finance IT / Data IT (including Fioneer where necessary - e.g. in Workshops)
o    Models / FRAME teams
o    Regulatory Interpretations
o    PwC (requirements support)
•    Ensure clear flow from regulatory rules → interpretations → requirements → build → testing → reporting

Workstream Integration (critical)
•    Ensure Calcs & Models is fully integrated with Data, Operating Model and Reporting Workstream.
•    Proactively identify and manage cross-workstream dependencies (e.g. Interface design work)
•    C&M Working Group leadership  
•    A central part of the role is running the fortnightly Calcs & Models Working Group, which acts as the primary coordination point.

Purpose (summary of the Working Group material agreed in the inaugural meeting)
•    Monitor delivery, plans, budget, and outcomes across: 
o    SABRE 
o    FRAME (Models)
o    Interpretations
•    Coordinate delivery of requirements into: 
o    Data platform
o    Calculation engines
o    Reporting outputs
•    Identify, manage, and escalate dependencies, risks, and issues

Key areas of day-to-day role
•    At a high level, the role relies heavily on judgement, stakeholder management and proactive coordination.  Below are some further thoughts on key areas of the day-to-day role. 
•    Collaboration & Integration (Core Value Add)
•    Establish and maintain collaboration across historically siloed teams including: 
o    SABRE IT 
o    Finance Change / Finance IT
•    Bridge program silos (Data vs Calcs & Models vs Operating Model)
•    Ultimately, promote a single delivery mindset across differing operating models and cultures – a key challenge across areas used to operating in a different manner
Workstream Leadership
•    Run core team forums (twice weekly) across: 
o    Models (FRAME) 
o    Capital Calculations 
o    India PMs 
•    Align approaches, identify synergies, and drive consistency across previously separate delivery streams
End-to-end coordination
•    Manage dependencies across: 
o    PwC (regulatory requirements / BRDs)
o    Interpretations (reg clarification)
o    Capital Change (FRDs)
o    IT teams (build & unit testing)
•    Ensure structured tracking of requirements through to implementation (e.g. recently instigated BRD and FRD additional tracking tools)

Testing coordination support
•    Support testing manager ensure alignment across testing phases via helping to coordinate across: 
o    SABRE IT
o    FRAME IT
o    Finance IT
•    Help bridge differences in testing approaches between teams  
Planning & cost management
•    Oversee integrated delivery plans across all contributing teams
•    Ensure cost tracking, forecasting, and CAPEX justification is in place
•    Work with PMO and team leads to maintain accuracy and transparency
Functional management of PMs
•    Provide functional oversight and support to: 
o    India PMs 
o    Capital Calculations PMs
o    Models PMs
Challenge and improve
o    Status reporting from PMs 
o    Steering Committee material
•    Drive clarity on deliverables, ownership, and timelines
•    Particular current focus on: 
o    Improving transparency of BRD / FRD status and promoting collaboration and agreement between stakeholders before reporting status
o    Ensuring commitment and adherence to delivery dates  

Design Council 
•    Identify topics requiring Design Council 
•    Highlight conflicts with: 
o    Iris design principles
o    Finance design standards
•    Translate complex technical/design issues into clear business narratives to facilitate discussion and agreement
•    Support decision making through structured recommendations
Workshop & delivery facilitation
•    Facilitate cross-functional workshops, particularly where: 
o    Ownership is unclear
o    Dependencies cut across workstreams
•    Example: 
o    The in progress end-to-end interface design across Data, SABRE, FRAME, and Finance Data Store which includes Finance and FM Architects
•    Take ownership of “gaps between teams” to ensure end-to-end delivery progresses

Design & Operating Model Consistency
•    Ensure alignment between: 
o    Group design / requirements
o    Non-domestic (ND) implementation
•    Challenge unnecessary divergence
•    Ensure differences are: 
o    Clearly documented
o    Justified (e.g. regulatory requirement)
o    Approved via governance

Other Responsibilities
•    Maintain workstream scope, plan, RAG and Path to Green
•    Oversee: 
o    SABRE build  
o    Model development / migration
o    Interpretations input
o    Testing (unit, SIT, UAT, parallel run)
o    Go-live readiness
•    Drive RAID management and escalation
•    Support workstream closure and lessons learned
•    Supporting artefacts (overseen / owned)
•    Weekly workstream update and RAG narrative – requires compiling data from PMs, reviewing and putting into more Senior Exec friendly language
•    Interdependency views (Data & Operating Model)
•    RAID log and key watch items
•    Inputs into execution dashboards (PMO-driven)

Our Ideal Candidate

•  18+ years of experience in Project and Programme Management with a strong track record in IT, Finance Change, Models, and Interpretation teams, as well as aligning with Data, Operating Model, and Reporting workstreams

•  Proven experience delivering delivery across multiple teams , ensuring alignment across the workstreams and creating structure and transparency within the complex, interdependent
•  Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Proven experience in delivering large scale global solution deployments preferably in the financial services environment
•    Agile Project Management 
•    Project Planning
•    Management of project scope
•    Management of project financials
•    Identification & Management of project Risk/Assumptions/Issues/ Dependencies
•    Advanced Components, e.g. Knowledge Graphs, Agents, LLMs

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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