Job Summary

Standard Chartered is investing significantly in digital transformation to improve our productivity, client and employee experience and creating capacity to reinvest in incremental growth activities.  The Pan-Bank ISO20022 Programme which addresses the new global standard for High Value (HVPS) and Cross Border Payments (CBPR+) messaging.  A new common language is being implemented for low value domestic schemes globally issued by the International Standards Organisation “ISO”.  The programme is focussed on upgrading existing message gateways, downstream systems and define the channel and preferred messaging format received through SWIFT transaction Management Platform in line with the “Society for Worldwide International Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) programme to adopt the ISO 20022 standards. 

The role reports to the Programme Director for Pan-Bank ISO and will be responsible for the management and coordination across the ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme of all Board, Group, Risk, Audit and Regulatory responses and papers, ensuring timely submissions and consistent messaging. This includes partnering the 2LOD and 3LOD teams on requests for information (RFI) from external audit partners, regulatory bodies (e.g. PRA, HKMA, MAS, FED, etc.), etc.  The role will require strong skills and previous experience in preparing updates for executive level meetings, board reports or similar, along with extensive experience in working with external regulators and audit.            

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme Director to establish and maintain a forward-looking view of management deliverables and effectively leverage this information to set key meetings and committee agendas that inform and advance progress
• Coordinate, write and review Board, Group, Risk and Regulatory related papers, and attend relevant related internal and external meetings, where required. 
• Responsible for the management and coordination across the ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme of all Board, Group, Risk, Audit and Regulatory responses and papers, ensuring timely submissions and consistent messaging. This includes partnering the 2LOD and 3LOD teams on requests for information (RFI) from external audit partners, regulatory bodies (e.g. PRA, HKMA, MAS, FED, etc.), etc. 
• Responsibility for having an overview of all ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme regulatory, risk and audit topics and ensuring the Programme provides consistent and quality updates to both internal and external stakeholders (e.g. Board and Group Committees, Regulators (e.g. PRA, HKMA, etc.), Auditors, etc.) 
• Prepare and present reports, presentations, papers, to support discussions and decision making at various forums (e.g. Group MT, Committees).
• Maintain an active working relationship with Group Risk and Compliance to provide transparency of the ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme operations and activities, and support and coordinate on behalf of the ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme Director
• Work with the ISO 20022 Pan Bank Programme Director to establish and maintain an active repository of key follow up issues emerging from internal and external activities and ensure their effective closure.  

Key Stakeholders

• Programme Director Pan-Bank ISO
• Global Head Conduct & Control, TB COO
• Head of Cash Strategy & Delivery
• Head of Product Development Cash
• CIO’s for Cash, Trade, FM, DCS, WRB
• Head of TB Transformation & Change Delivery
• COO TB & NNM

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience in Programme Management, ideally within the banking or financial sector.   
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence, and resilience  
• Personal authority, with proven ability to establish relationships and provide direction at senior management levels  
• Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across a broad range of stakeholders, functions, and borders
• Strong people leadership skills with the ability to lead a cross-border, multi-functional team  
• Strong management qualities, interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity 
• Ability to manage geographically dispersed and highly varied client and stakeholder base
• Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision taking
• Good presentation, time management, negotiation and influencing skills
• Excellent written & oral communication skills 
• Can work independently to strict timeframes
• Focused, organised and results-oriented
• Experience of working with senior stakeholders. Ability to influence senior staff and offshore shared services teams and drive change agenda
• Assertive, tenacious, and willing to challenge when required
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Risk Management & Compliance
• Risk Management
• Board & Risk Committee Papers
• Senior Stakeholder Engagement
• Project & Programme 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.

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