Key Responsibilities

• Wrangle inputs from the product owners, project managers and service managers to orchestrate the completion of requests for information.
• Devise reporting of key result metrics toward targets.
• Work with the Hive, Sub-domain, Domain leadership to support governance and reporting for a consolidated view across the Hive, Business or Function Unit.
• Ensure any new major changes to the prioritized product backlog (within 90-day cycle) are reported to the RF (Refinement Forum) for approval.
• Subsequently submit to MPR / QPR (Quarterly Performance Review) for approval on the impact to OKRs, cost and timeline shift on the 90-day approved commitments. 
• Support the Chief PO and Hive Tech Lead in all financial management matters including Clarity updates, reporting, capitalization, variance, cost plans etc.
• Update and maintain spend plan and associated visuals.
• Ensure the Initiatives, product backlog and costs are aligned to approved QPR.
• Ensure all required approved SOWs / contracts are in-place to procure vendor resource / infrastructure including management of the vendor payments.
• Engage Country Finance teams and understand budget requirements across regions.
• Identify opportunities for efficiencies / process simplification and optimization.
• Document existing processes and document refined processes and propose them.
• Analyze as-is scenarios and run what-if scenarios and document their implications.
• Prepare agenda for calls and facilitate governance forums with participants.

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 6 years of experience in a PMO, project management, delivery of strategic initiatives & programs or working in similar capacity on project management and collaboration tools. 
• Strong financial management capabilities: budget tracking, planning, forecast and variance explanations
• Experience in Identity and Access Management desired but not a must.
• Experience in project and delivery management tools (ex: ADO, Confluence, Clarity etc.,).
• Experience in Agile project delivery methodology.
• Experience in vendor management.
• A ‘can do’ attitude committed to doing ‘what it takes’ to deliver. ‘Agile’ mindset. Whilst not being the subject matter expert, having the ability to learn quickly, listen, synthesise the issues and articulate for senior management with recommendations.
• Diligent and detail orientated.
• Ability to create effective work relationships across functions & borders at both junior and the most senior levels of the bank.
• Experienced user of MS Office Applications (Word, Excel and Powerpoint)
• Experienced on Vendor cost management / Cost center management.
• Experienced on Project Finance & Management / Clarity Project Cost management.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as excellent presentation skills.
• Stakeholder management across department and geographical location experience.
• Demonstrated capability for problem solving, decision making, sound judgment, assertiveness.
• Strong networking and interpersonal skills.
  

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers