Job Summary

Director of Governance Services will be responsible for driving strategic documentation and initiatives, governance for T&O, setting the frameworks, guidelines, and approach for the Business Planning Manager (BPM) community, and provide governance and quality support for the T&O MT. This role will ensure that our governance practices are robust, consistent, and aligned with industry best practices. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Global Head of T&O Governance and Head of Governance Services to develop relevant strategies/business plans for organisation wide improvements
• Support the T&O strategy for people, vendor, workforce and locations
• Track KPIs for the team
• Execute target operating model and location strategies
• Support the T&O Property footprint, cost optimisation and ways of working including people policies and strategies such as Work From Home
• Support for preparation of various strategy packs for Management
• Manage the overall budgets and headcount targets for T&O Governance on behalf of the Head of Governance Services
• Influence the T&O delivery responses and solutions to critical business problems
• Drive the development and adoption of common foundation systems, components and services to be used by different businesses/ functions/ geographies
• Partner with the Banks Group Strategy team to ensure alignment between the Group
• Execute new change initiatives working with several internal and external stakeholders
• Provide support to prioritise Change and cost out initiatives and conceptualise the framework
• Sustain focus & communication of various initiatives to senior members of the Management team

Skills and Experience

• Budget Management
• Business Acumen
• Industry Knowledge
• Internal Controls
• Key Performance Indicators
• Operational Risk
• Organizational Change Mgmt
• Organizational Governance
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic

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.