Job Summary

•    As part of the Group T&O Delivery Governance function, this role supports the T&O Delivery portfolio by driving strong governance, financial discipline, and stakeholder management across investment programs.
•    The role acts as the primary interface with Group Investment Management (GIM), ensuring high-quality submissions, accurate financial tracking, and timely decision support.
•    It focuses on execution excellence across portfolio reporting, financial governance, and program follow-ups.
•    This is a senior, hands‑on individual contributor role requiring strong strategic judgement, analytical rigour, and the ability to influence across programmes, functions and leadership forums.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support translation of T&O and Group investment priorities into structured portfolio submissions and governance materials.
•    Provide analytical input to inform investment decisions, highlighting trade-offs, risks, and financial implications.
•    Ensure alignment of program submissions with agreed portfolio priorities, funding constraints, and governance expectations.

Business

•    Act as a key interface with Group Investment Management (GIM) and related governance forums.
•    Coordinate end-to-end submission of investment asks, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and timeliness.
•    Track portfolio-level financials including CtA, Opex/Capex mix, forecasts, and benefits.
•    Identify variances, inconsistencies, and gaps in programme inputs, and drive resolution with stakeholders.
•    Support senior management with concise, data-backed insights for decision-making.

Processes

•    Drive disciplined execution of portfolio governance processes across planning, submission, and review cycles (e.g., CP, QPR, funding reviews).
•    Establish and enforce clear timelines, milestones, and submission standards across program teams.
•    Coordinate follow-ups and ensure closure of actions from governance forums (GIM, QPR, SteerCos).
•    Continuously improve portfolio governance processes to enhance efficiency, transparency, and data quality.
•    Drive timely follow-ups and hold program teams accountable for submission quality, completeness and deadlines. 

Data Quality 
•    Ensure integrity, accuracy, and completeness of portfolio data across systems (e.g., Clarity, Finance inputs, program submissions).
•    Reconcile financial and delivery data across multiple sources to maintain a consistent single source of truth.
•    Challenge data gaps and inconsistencies, and drive corrective actions with program teams.
•    Support development of reliable reporting and dashboards for senior management and governance forums.

People and Talent
•    Build effective working relationships with program teams, finance partners, and governance stakeholders.
•    Provide guidance to program teams on governance expectations, submission quality, and financial discipline.
•    Foster a culture of accountability, responsiveness, and delivery discipline across the portfolio.

Risk Management
•    Identify and escalate risks related to financial forecasts, funding gaps, submission quality, and delivery dependencies.
•    Track and follow up on key portfolio risks, issues, and interdependencies across programmes.
•    Ensure timely escalation of risks impacting governance decisions or investment outcomes.

Governance

•    Support preparation of high-quality governance materials for GIM, QPR, SteerCos, and other forums.
•    Ensure all submissions meet required governance standards, with clear rationale, assumptions, and financial backing.
•    Maintain traceability of decisions, actions, and approvals across governance forums.
•    Drive strong governance discipline, ensuring timely and well-structured engagement with stakeholders.

Regulatory and 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
•    Finance
•    Project Stakeholders – QPR / MPR members, Refinement Forum and Project Team members 
•    T&O leadership
•    Portfolio / Refinement Forums / Initiative level Governance groups

Qualifications

•    EDUCATION: Professional formal education 
•    TRAINING: Project management, Data analytics / tools, AI basics, Advanced excel
•    CERTIFICATIONS: PMP preferred 

Our Ideal Candidate

•    10+ years of experience in portfolio governance, PMO, or finance partnering within large transformation environments.
•    Strong financial acumen with ability to analyse CtA, Opex/Capex, forecasts, and benefits, and identify gaps or inconsistencies.
•    Proven ability to manage investment governance processes and engage effectively with senior stakeholders and finance teams.
•    High execution discipline with a track record of driving timely submissions, follow-ups, and closure of actions across teams.
•    Structured thinker with strong attention to detail, able to translate complex inputs into clear, high-quality outputs.
•    Confident communicator who can challenge constructively and influence stakeholders while maintaining strong working relationships.
•    Self-driven and accountable, with the ability to operate independently under tight timelines in a fast-paced  

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Accuracy and Attention to Details
•    Business Case Justification
•    Communication
•    Financial Analysis
•    Industry Knowledge
•    Project Management
•    Technology Processes
•    Analytical thinking
•    Operational risk  

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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