Job Summary

The Senior PMO supports an effective project delivery, by establishing a robust governance for a project, in line with Group and country standards for project management.

Proactively supports a dedicated Project Manager, through effective facilitation, tracking and project reporting. This includes development of project governance, creating and maintaining project documentation, setting up a project in Clarity, updating project details in the right systems (Clarity, ADO), managing and reporting project financials.

Working closely with project workstreams by attending working groups, preparing meeting minutes, decks & materials, and reporting progress to the governance forums.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and sustain the project governance framework, including the reporting cadence, meeting structures, and associated artifacts. 
• Ensure compliance with the Change Delivery Standards (CDS) and promote awareness of these standards throughout the project. 
• Conduct regular reviews to evaluate the project's adherence to established standards. 
• Promote consistency across project documentation, RAID logs, change controls, and other relevant records. 
• Ensure the accurate and consistent use of project data within the Bank's systems (Clarity, ADO). 
• Provide support to the project team.
• Support the Project Manager in developing a comprehensive project plan, ensuring alignment with the approved business case. 
• Collaborate with the Project Manager to ensure that initiative plans are synchronized and integrated with the overall Programme delivery plan. 
• Support the Project Manager in maintaining the project plan, including but not limited to the tracking of key milestones and timelines. 
• Consolidate and monitor the comprehensive resource management view of the project, identifying any gaps relative to forecasted requirements. 
• Support in the development and maintenance of project budgets and financial forecasts. 
• Deliver high-quality progress reports, dashboards, and status updates for stakeholders at all levels, ensuring clear and concise messaging. 
• Ensure that the approved business case and subsequent Change Requests are accurately documented in Clarity. 
• Collaborate with the Project Manager to keep Clarity / other reporting systems updated with the latest data, including status updates, key milestones, financials, risks, issues, dependencies, and resource forecasts. 

Skills and Experience

• 3+ years’ experience in Project Management or 5+ years in Project PMO role - preferred experience within a large international, dynamic organisation.
• Experience in using Clarity: managing project timelines, risks / issues & financials.
• Project Management accreditation – PMP/ITIL/PRINCE2/ Agile - nice to have, but not required.
• Experience in working on Agile and waterfall projects.
• Understand Project Lifecycles and Scope Management
• Able to interpret and analyse Project outputs (Schedules, Financials & Benefits)
• Skills in use of planning tools e.g. Clarity (must have), ADO & Confluence - an advantage
• MS Project skills – an advantage
• High levels of personal accountability and proactive initiative taking, together with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach
• Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation with an ability to engage and support a variety of stakeholder levels including senior management
• Ability to communicate complex information to stakeholders, internal resources, vendors/suppliers/consultants, and partners at all organizational levels 
• Strong customer service and teamwork skills. Professional demeanour to maintain and enhance relationships.
• Good MS Office Suite Skills including SharePoint
• A great communicator with advanced English (written and spoken) language skills
• Ability to work well in a high-pressure environment

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.
• 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.