Job Summary

We are looking for a Business Planning Manager, CTOO Americas who is ready to support us 2 days from New York and 1 day from Newark office and who will be responsible for a strategic and highly visible for driving the planning, execution, and performance monitoring of critical business and operational initiatives across Americas region.

This role serves as a key liaison between the Chief Technology and Operations Officer, regional business leaders,US Management Team and global functions, translating high-level corporate strategy into actionable regional plans that ensure operational excellence, resource alignment and financial targets are met. 

The Business Planning Manager will be supporting the annual business planning cycle, manage strategic projects, and provide comprehensive performance analysis to support executive decision-making. We are looking for candidates who will be working closely with the wider Corporate Investment Banking and Operations teams who has proven experience in business management, exceptional analytical and financial experience, as well as managing multiple projects with a deep understanding of the America business environment and regulatory landscape.

Further responsibilities include being responsible for tracking and submitting required information as part of regulatory exams, monitoring requests, Internal Audits as well as partnering with CTOO, Americas Leadership team to ensure departmental submissions are robust and timely. The successful candidate will be supporting the CTOO, Americas in setting the governance structure for Operations working closely with Key Stakeholders such as CTOO, Americas, Operations and Technology Management, Americas, CEO office, Americas, Human Resources, Americas as well as Finance (Country Finance and Group Operations Finance) teams.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support the implementation of strategic objectives for the Americas CTOO team.

Business
•    Responsible for supporting the CTOO, Americas on effective day-to-day management of the team, including financial management, stakeholder communications (i.e. memo / presentations), and Group initiatives / processes.
•    Provide overall project management support to the CTOO, Americas.

Processes
•    Responsible for management of the CTOO, Americas budget, forecast and headcount processes, as stipulated by Group. Coordinate with Americas CTOO Leadership team, Finance teams and Group to ensure accurate budget and forecasting. This includes variance analysis with meaningful commentaries on cost over/under run against budget and forecasts.
•    Responsible for tracking and recording of CTOO, Americas efficiencies. 
•    Coordinate with Americas CTOO top-team and assist in determining and adapting to best practices across Operations.
•    Lead coordination of responses to Group Operations, Country / Regional CEO’s office on adhoc requests for information including volumes, financials, capacity, headcount for Americas Operations.
•    Support CTOO, Americas on the management of action items from Committees / Forums / Working Groups.
•    Prepare MIS reports / dashboards as required by the CTOO, Americas such as volume reporting, capacity analysis, financial analysis, etc.
•    Maintain the relevant Service Level Agreements on behalf of CTOO, Americas for certain GBS units. Responsible to ensure group TPRM process is followed and Outsourcing Inventory is maintained as per policy.

People & Talent
•    Engage with Human Resources on various processes such as P3, My Voice, control checks, etc. Ensure Americas CTOO completion status is per Group expectation for all HR initiatives/processes.
•    Responsible for coordinating various training initiatives for Americas CTOO team

Qualifications

•    Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: University educated
•    Substantial experience in the banking industry, ideally demonstrated success in a similar role
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity
•    Ability to manage geographically dispersed and highly varied internal and external stakeholder base
•    Proven ability to work independently, be resourceful & solutions oriented
•    Ability to effectively prioritise multiple responsibilities in a high pressure environment
•    Exemplary integrity, ethics, and resilience
•    Strong project management and organisational skills
•    Advanced analytical and numerical skills
•    Ability to apply experience and judgment to plan and accomplish priorities
•    Personal authority with proven ability to establish relationships to engage and influence for action with stakeholders across the Group
•    A team –builder, with the ability to develop and supervise 
•    Ability to handle sensitive matters at all levels of the organisation with discretion and confidentiality

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 96,030 USD to 145,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations 

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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