Job Summary

•    The Restructuring Capabilities Uplift (RCU) programme has been started to develop enhancements identified to the Bank’s underlying capabilities that are required to execute a Group-wide restructure post a resolution event. 
•    The programme has significant regulatory oversight and it is critical to deliver this programme ahead of the next Group Resolvability Assessment cycle.
•    The programme is pan-Bank and impacts both the Businesses as well as all Functions. The programme is being tracked closely by the Group Management Team and the Board Risk Committee.

Strategy
•    Work as a PMO analyst to manage the end to end project delivery including project planning, cost control, project execution, monitor, testing plan, project deployment, project closure and all other activities required by the Project management Standards applicable at the time.
•    Support PMO related activities – planning, reporting, risk management, QA, document management, financials, resource management, stage control, stakeholder management and governance in systems and accordance to Bank standards.
•    Maintain Programme and Project status, ensuring that status reports are completed each month.  Ensure that the RAG (Red Amber Green) status is accurate and that any change in RAG is endorsed by the Project Steering Committee (PSC).
•    Maintain Programme and Project risks and issues, ensuring they are being reported and escalated through the PSC. Follow up with responsible parties to update and close out risks and issues.
•    Maintain the Programme and Project plans, ensuring that progress against tasks and milestones is accurate and that status is reported through the Steering Committee.  Ensure that all mandatory milestones, are required for Project Management Standards (PMS) and Service Delivery Framework (SDF) are included in the plans and that the critical path is defined.  Ensure that at risk or delayed milestones are escalated and changes to the baselined plan are endorsed through the relevant governance committees.
•    Maintain Steering Committee meeting decks, meetings rooms booking, materials, attendees, minuting, follow-up of actions.
 

Key Responsibilities

Business
•    Understands risks and challenges when facilitating decision making for the desired outcomes
•    Presents clear options and recommendations, facilitates decision making and enables clear understanding in key stakeholders of risks, outcomes and trade-offs.
•    Regularly elicit feedback and share lessons learnt to incorporate best practice in a timely manner with stakeholders 
•    Drive appropriate communication to the stakeholders to ensure progress, risks and issues are communicated in a timely manner

Processes
   
•    Work along Business and Functional stakeholders to ensure that processes and capabilities that support restructuring are robust and able to support compliance with regulations.
•    Demonstrate compliance to Bank’s programme management guidelines and standards. 

People & Talent
•    Promotes a culture of openness, trust, and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.
•    Ensure the provision of ongoing training and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.

Risk Management
•    When required appropriately escalates impediments and blockers to the relevant Governance Forums and ensures ownership by committee members for the mitigating actions.
•    Prepares good quality materials for governance meetings, as required 

Governance*
•    When required appropriately escalates impediments and blockers to the Programme management and relevant Governance Forums and ensures ownership for the mitigating actions
•    Responsible for the delivery of governance reports as required

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.
 

Skills and Experience

• Programme / Project Management     
• Knowing and understanding bank’s organisation structure, products and policies    
• Stakeholder Engagement    
• Communication    

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university

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.