Job Summary

Standard Chartered’s diverse footprint across 63 of the fastest growing markets in Asia, Africa and the Middle East creates unique opportunities for passionate, motivated, and highly skilled people who want to make a difference. We are changing the way people think about banking. We are changing the way we do business – becoming the digital bank with a human touch. This is your opportunity to be part of a growth story in an industry that is reimagining how customers are getting better, faster experiences and convenience through digital technology.

Our Information & Cyber Security (ICS) team sits within the Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) function and is responsible for all mission-critical and enterprise-wide areas of cybersecurity, including identity and access management, global threat intelligence, data protection, malware protection, and application and infrastructure security. These are challenges that impact our clients globally. 

Our ICS Portfolio team develops the platforms, drives the processes and builds partnerships on behalf of ICS. We thrive on providing solutions to complex issues, devoting time and energy to designing and delivering new and innovative solutions, and all in an environment that demands being risk-aware, not risk-averse. ICS chooses progress over perfection and aims to always participate with a constructive purpose. The team makes an impact wherever they are based, be it in our offices around the world, our Global Business Solution centres in China, India, Malaysia and Poland, or even from our home.

If tackling complex challenges excites you, then join our ICS Portfolio team where you will get to collaborate and work on solutions across business and functions to drive the transformation and deliver better experiences to our customers. We constantly strive to reduce time-to-market and streamline our processes. We follow agile methodology and work to embed an improvement habit across the bank. 

Now you have an opportunity to make a meaningful impact with a diverse and passionate team of creators, innovators, and achievers. With us, you’ll learn, be inspired, and make an impact every day. The success of our work hinges on how we use the unique diversity of our people to realise the effects we seek to achieve: Always on. Always safe. Always Simple.

As PMO in Investments Operations & Analytics, you will be a team member contributing to establishment of quality, accurate and consistent reporting using tools including Sharepoint, Clarity and Confluence, Azure DevOps. You will work with the respective delivery teams and team leads to ensure all the records of the investment meet the quality requirements i.e. BIRD (Blockers/Impediments/Risks/Dependencies), Memo (Initiative RAG), ADO (Epic level) and Clarity (Initiative level) data quality. This enables the senior leaders to make the appropriate decisions / trade-offs should the need arise. You will contribute to continuous improvement of processes, tools and behaviours in your team.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the programme delivery in line with the Bank’s control and governance framework
• Ensure all project deliverables, artefacts and approvals are stored in a structured discoverable format for future recovery and audit
• Proactively maintain project library for quality and completeness, including auditable approval trails
• Govern artefact standards
• Deliver all allocated activities to the highest quality standard and call out when this is not the case
• Support delivery teams to prepare, manage, maintain, and track quality of key project management artefacts such as project schedules, risks and issues registers, dependency mapping, budget and forecast, programme plan and project plan
• Support the Programme Manager in initiative preparation activities
• Provide effective support to the Program Manager including meeting scheduling and minute taking, team and stakeholder liaison, representation at meetings, coordination of programme activities
• Support preparation of status reporting as required for stakeholder requirements, and programme office
• Support preparation of governance standards across the project, including tracking, monitoring and updating the status of initiatives deliverables
• Ensuring Clarity is up to date including Project static, RAG status, key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and resource forecasts, and they are tracked and reported to the appropriate governance bodies
• Ensuring that all submissions to committees and working groups are of the right quality and are timely
• Support implementation of initiatives closure procedure
• Review, control and report on financial status of the individual components and overall workstream as per the bank’s standards and workstream governance
• Ensure measures – as per the bank’s standards, are in place and workstream governance – for benefits tracking are implemented end-to-enA

Skills and Experience

• Experience in Agile Methodologies, Agile Project Management and Change Control
• Sound knowledge of Excel
• Understanding of IT Standards, Procedures & Policies, Information Technology (IT) and Security Policies
• MS Office Suite Skills including SharePoint and Confluence
• Qualification or certifications in Project Management are beneficial but not essential.
• Certification in industry wide change management frameworks such as PROSCI ADKAR is also a plus

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 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.