JOB SUMMARY

• SC Ventures (“SCV”) was established in March of 2018 with the purpose of “Rewiring the DNA in Banking” by bringing three distinct areas together: 
• The eXellerator Labs, enabling innovation at large in the Bank by supporting:
  Entrepreneurially-minded colleagues as “Intrapreneurs”, developing ideas to products, services or new business models.
  Collaboration with fintech companies, supported by the SC Ventures Fintech Bridge, Proof of Concept (“POC”) framework and POC funding.
  Client engagement on co-creation activities.
• The Innovation Investment Fund (“Fund”), USD100m allocated to acquire minority stakes in fintech companies (“fintechs”) whose technology has been successfully validated in the Group and is progressing to production (i.e., continuing use), subject to commercial due diligence. 
• Venture building, exploring new business models (“ventures”), with the objective of providing ‘optionality’ for the Group in the way it engages existing and new customers and markets. These adopt a start-up model, operating independently of the Group’s existing businesses, funded in a venture capital fashion, and under a different governance and risk management framework.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• There are 115 team members (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group’s support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, Dubai, Nairobi, and London. 
  As SC Ventures look to launch several portfolio companies, we are seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to support a range of generalist HR activities within the SCV portfolio, including the platform and our venture businesses, both subsidiaries and joint venture entities.  This may include assessing the current HR people processes, practice and strategy to inform CEO and Board discussions and ensure the portfolio is investor ready.  It may also include deal related activity, from mergers, acquisitions and wind downs.

In addition to the HRBP requirements, this role may need to do some project planning for operationalising the subsidiaries and support the HR Head of Operations & Change in designing our approach to operationalising. This includes supporting activities around policies, frameworks, HR products & governance (payroll, benefits, etc.).  In addition, they may need to provide HR advisory services to the different ventures that are sitting under SC Ventures, in particular employee relations matters, completing investigations or providing guidance to people leaders on complex matters.  

Strategy

•    Provide people advisory guidance and partnership to venture and platform business leaders.
•    Provide insights to the Head of HR, SCV and the Venture Boards to facilitate Board Effectiveness and enable our venture businesses to have a successful people & culture. 
•    Identify, prioritise and develop organisational structures, capabilities and behaviours to build a workforce that is future-ready.
•    Lead or consult on venture related business change and transaction related activities
Business
•    Effectively partner with, challenge and influence business leaders across multiple geographies to create comprehensive people plans, deliver the right outcomes on people-related decisions, focusing on key agenda items such as people cost control, scalability and building effective cultures.  
•    Be a disruptor, driving culture change and delivering global and/or local change initiatives in our subsidiaries.
•    Collaborate with Venture HR Leads to deliver an adaptable, right-sized, right-shored operating model focused on improving productivity in SC Ventures.
•    Solve problems and get to the root cause of issues – design and quickly implement solutions.
•    Provide advice on country-specific implications of OD activity and conduct reviews on key OD aspects to optimise the shape of the workforce.
•    Provide expertise and resolve complex issues in the following areas: performance management, career planning, data analysis, policies, standards & processes, compensation & rewards, employee relations, learning and development, recognition programs, and strategic development.

Processes
•    Identify areas for improvement in HR processes, providing feedback and escalating issues where appropriate to relevant COEs to enhance client experience and improve productivity within the broader HR venture community. 
•    Provide or lead on detailed guidance to the Ventures on business reorganisations, change and deal related activity. 

People & Talent 
•    Develop and deploy an effective talent strategy to ensure high-quality succession pipelines exist for critical roles within SC Ventures subsidiaries.  
•    Play an active role in key talent decisions, through leader assessment, development & management. 
•    Collaborate with colleagues within HR to facilitate internal movement of key talent.

Risk Management
•    Ensure adherence in SCV’s enterprise risk management and HR risk governance framework being in line with statutory guidelines 
•    Support and perform periodic review of SC Venture’s HR risk policies, standards and processes 
•    Support incident management, root cause analysis and thematic reviews assuring and preventing future recurrences. 

Governance 

•    Ensure ongoing compliance and applicable HR risk related regulations and expectations 
•    Support internal audit engagement where required or where related to risk governance 
•    Partner with compliance and internal audit to drive consistent understanding and execution of risk responsibilities  

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

SCV Managers across Operating Members, Core business and Functions

Qualifications
•    Ability to adhere to an expectation of confidentiality on business and people matters 
•    Experienced HRBP looking after a portfolio of entities
•    Has worked as an HRBP in a global role, ideally within the banking, start up and/or technology space.
•    Experienced in navigating product offerings around reward, payroll or benefits 
•    Experienced in managing offshore teams (shared services and regional teams)
•    Possess excellent organizational, time-management and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated attention to detail
•    Is organized and able to multi-task and prioritize competing requests from different stakeholders 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    HR Legal and Regulatory Environment    

•    Human Resources Consulting    

•    Human Resources Policies, Strategies and Environment    

•    Influencing Through Expertise    

•    Organizational Change Management    

•    Performance Management    

•    Planning: Tactical, Strategic    
•    Talent Management    

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.