Job Summary

This is a 12 Months Direct Contract role.

•  Review, control and report on financial status of the individual workstream and overall programme as per the bank’s standards and workstream governanc•    Support and coordinate performance/benefits reporting, budgeting and forecast processes
•    Prepare status reporting as required for stakeholder requirements, and programme office, including the various Agile ceremonies such as refinement forum, and other engagements as required 
•    Implement governance standards across the programme, including tracking, monitoring and updating the programme metrices
•    Ensure that Clarity is up to date including key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and resource forecasts, and that they are tracked and reported to the appropriate governance bodies
•    Ensure that all submissions to committees and working groups are of the right quality and are timely
•    Implementing programme closure procedure

Strategy

•    Delivering, building and maintaining the Data Driven solutions that are core to Group Operations strategy.

Business

•    Provide thought leadership in data science techniques and business applications to unlock the value of SCB’s data sets and external information.

•    Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.

•    Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of analytic projects.

Processes

•    Explore leading methodologies and best practices and importing successful methodologies from international markets.

Key Responsibilities

Risk Management

•    Prepare, manage and maintain, and track quality of key programme management artefacts such as epics on JIRA, risks and issues, dependency mapping, budget and forecast, programme plan and initiative plans

Governance

•    Support & ensure the implementation of programme delivery is in line with the Bank’s control and governance framework 
•    Ensure all project deliverables, artefacts and approvals are stored in a structured format for future recovery and audit

Key stakeholders

•    Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.

Other Responsibilities

•    Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
•    Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.
Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation

Our Ideal Candidate

•    5+ years of PMO experience in large and complex, multi-geography, multi-disciplinary projects
•    Experience in agile methodologies
•    Certification in PMP / certified scrum master / certified product owner is a plus
•    Strong sense of personal ownership and responsibility in accomplishing the organisation’s goal
•    Ability to excel in a quick-paced environment, multi-task & deliver to tight deadlines
•    Excellent organizational skills 
•    Excellent communication skills – oral, written and presentation
•    Strong knowledge of Clarity & NWOW standards
•    Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
 

Role Specific Technical Comptencies

• Delivery experience in technology or business programmes
• Strong change management principles / enterprise
• Programme management discipline, understanding of agile principles
  
• Stakeholder management skills, strong communications

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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