Job Summary

• We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours: do the right thing, better together and never settle, as well as our brand promise: Here for good. We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture, one where everyone can realize their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organization. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
• The Financial Markets Technology function is responsible for the systems development and technology infrastructure which underpin the Bank’s services for Financial Markets clients, and the execution of projects developing this infrastructure.
• One of the key on-going investments in that area is the FM re-platforming programme, which aim to simplify and upgrade the FM infrastructure by delivering transformational changes to remediate obsolescence, deliver operational efficiencies, cost reductions and business growth enablers

This large programme is currently structured in 3 parts:

1. The migration of trade processing capability and transactions from legacy systems to the new platform
2. The migration of post-trade reports & interfaces from legacy systems to the new platform
3. The delivery of 10 acceleration initiatives, allowing a faster delivery pace of the programme

We are looking for a senior Delivery Lead to drive the first workstream focusing in 2025 on Global Rates Desk migration. Workstream objectives: 

• Derivatives Rates Desks migration to de-risk current legacy Trade processing platform 
• Enable business growth through the new platform which is a collection of internal/external capabilities supporting front-to-back processing

Responsibilities

• End-to-end delivery of prioritised Business Epics and Underlying Features. Outcome : OKRs and business benefits achieved. 
• On time and budget Delivery of all initiatives Milestones and Customers go-live milestones. 
• Refined governance/execution model (if required) with clear OKR, roles and responsibilities.

• Programme artefacts documentation and maintenance : Manage, to the highest standard, all aspects of programme management: planning, financials, risks, issues, dependencies, reporting, governance ceremonies, benefit tracking.
• Document and execute effective and timely communication and provision of information to programme governance authorities including business sponsors, programme team and technology management on agreed appropriate frequency and formality.
• Ensure Programme deliverables are aligned with the organization's technical strategy and standards. Oversee decisions about platform architecture, systems integration and technology stack selection.
• Project planning and forecasting (collaborate with the application teams and Product Owners to create and agree the delivery plan) 
• Stakeholders agreement documentation on the project plan to confirm scope, schedule, and cost.
• Regular (weekly) progress reports against the baselined project plan and manage risk, issues, and dependencies with collaboration with business and technical experts to timely resolve them.
• Programme meetings with all stakeholders (project team including application teams, business users, architects, and experts) to provide a forum for project updates and to discuss and resolve cross team’s dependencies and address other project related critical topics
• Project (focused) meetings to brainstorm new requirements, design, and solutions
• Full high-quality backlog documentation : ensure business requirements, functional specifications, and user acceptance criteria are high quality and aligned to business and technology objectives including building future proof scalable solutions.
• Documentation and socialisation of Process and system improvements to create sustainable business value
• Compliance with change management standards & procedures, including documenting and capturing all artefacts required by project governance.
• Documented and validated plan for operational, business and country risk assessment and impacts are documented and attested by respective owners.
• Proactively suggest process and system improvements to create sustainable business value

Skills and Experience

• Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proactive, self-starter, self-motivated, multi-tasking, solution oriented with proven results
• Ability to work under pressure to deliver services
• Willingness & ability to work alongside more experienced team members to obtain knowledge.
• Curious

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Trading, Sales, Market and Credit Risk, Compliance, Ops Risk, Middle-Office, Operations, Product Control and Finance, Technology Leadership and Architecture

Our Ideal Candidate

• University degree in Science/Technology/Finance
• Certifications from the CFA or FRM are good to have
• 5 years of relevant experience delivering large-scale transformation programmes of work in the Financial Markets Technology space, preferably on build solutions (rather than buy and integrate), managing geographically distributes teams.
• Strong leadership and accountability
• Strong front-to-back Financial Markets business processes understanding including Front Office’s Trade and Order’s execution, Market and Credit risk generation, Middle Office trade and cash life cycle management, Operations processing and reporting for confirmations, settlements, client statement, Finance and Product Control accounting and P&L reporting, compliance controls reporting and regulatory reporting and other ancillary processes supporting trade end-to-end processing and reporting.
• Strong technical acumen, understanding of IT architecture concepts, these initiatives are all technical in nature, some delivering relatively sophisticated solutions.
• Experience in business analysis and in reviewing business analyst’s requirements, functional specifications, process flows and other business and technical documentation.
• Experience in managing stakeholder communication including timely project progress reporting to business sponsors and technology management.
• Experience managing ambiguity to provide clarity and facilitate discussions to reach consensus on both technology designs and business processes.
• Excellent communication skills (business writing in particular) to all levels of seniority
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence, negotiate and convince

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Communication Skills, Stakeholder Management
• Business Analysis
• Critical thinking and Problem solving
• Strategic Thinking
• People / Interpersonal skills / Collaboration
• Project & Delivery Management
• Financial Markets Products and Processes (FX, FXO, Rates, Credit) front-to-back
• Data – Trade, Cash, Instruments, Market / Static / Reference
• Software Architecture

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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