Job Description

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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 behaviors. 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see better in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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 Programmed, 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 organization, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realize their full potential.

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The Role Responsibilities

• Assist the HCO to effectively manage Country (and Rubik Cluster) business objectives and the governance role of the franchise
• Serve as liaison with CMT/EXCO and other stakeholders to effectively manage priorities and facilitate outcomes.
• Provide business planning, coordination, and project management support for the HCO therefore enabling focus on operational and strategic business issues.
• Manage assigned initiatives on behalf of the HCO behalf.
• Oversee or act as committee secretary for selected governance committees.
• Ensure CEO Office preparedness for engagements and meetings

Business

Customer and Franchise Management - Support CEO Office in raising of the Bank's profile with all key stakeholders such as customers, regulators, key contacts in the local community, members of staff, and Group leadership. Assist the HCO in driving collaboration across Singapore and the network.

• Support HCO in raising of the Bank's profile with all key stakeholders (customers, regulators, political contacts, staff, Group leadership) - relationship building with key contacts, develop meeting and networking agenda, coordinate follow up
• Assist in special event coordination where CEO participates
• Track Business Initiatives that the CEO sponsors, for example One Bank Forum, etc.

Processes

Provide daily support to the HCO in terms of internal and external correspondence, preparedness for engagements and timely deliverables. Assist in prioritization of CEO's schedule to ensure appropriate time allocation.

• Monitor CEO Office's incoming correspondence to ensure prompt handling of all items. Manage follow up and execute actions as appropriate.
• Manage CEO Office's daily emails to ensure timely and appropriate responses. Seek HCO's input where appropriate or delegate to others for resolution. Track important internal and external items to conclusion.
• Review and priorities CEO Office activities for each day. Ensure an appropriate level of preparedness for each engagement and priorities his deliverables.
• Independently seek resolution to everyday management issues requiring CEO Office's attention where possible.
• Assist the Head of CEO Office in prioritizing CEO's schedule to ensure appropriate time allocation for focus on deliverables, stakeholder management and profile.
• Assist HCO to utilize the CEO Office's Budget for appropriate expenses and track the Budget over the course of the year.

Manage and support agenda for high profile internal visitors to the country as required.

• Manage agenda for high profile internal visitors to country (MT members, Independent Non-Executive Directors) - drive their engagement, schedule setting, briefings preparation, logistics, follow up on resulting action items. Ensure results of visits are communicated as appropriate (newsletters etc.).
• Oversee project work on behalf of the HCO as appropriate e.g., strategic taskforces, etc.
• Assist HCO to drive CMT/EXCO involvement in sustainability work (community engagement etc.).
• Serve as Crisis Management administrator, and BCP coordinator for CEO's office.
• Ensure look and feel of CEO's office space is functional and appropriate for proper representation and receiving high profile visitors.

People & Talent

Support the CEO Office in achieving the People and Talent objectives such as accelerating next generation of leaders, attracting talent, CMT/EXCO effectiveness and embedding the Code of Conduct.

• Assist the HCO in developing and embedding a high-performance culture throughout the country by embracing management processes and activities with a goal of creating an environment of performance excellence.
• Support the CEO Office in the objective of strengthening Diversity & Inclusion initiative
• Work with CEO's Personal Assistant to manage workload and engagement, oversee adherence to company policies and general representation of CEO's office to stakeholders

Governance

Stay abreast of governance priorities and issues in the country, Rubik cluster and the Group. Be familiar with Group policies and processes directly affecting the CEO's office to ensure compliance. Support HCO to drive agenda for CMT/EXCO meetings and other strategy meetings. Track follow-up actions to completion.

• Stay abreast of developments in Group policies and processes directly affecting CEO's office to ensure compliance. Support HCO on implementation of new processes where appropriate.
• Where appropriate, to act as a point for communication between CEO Office, CMT/EXCO and all other stakeholders to assist in smooth handling of day-to-day management of country.
• Ensure the CEO and the office are sufficiently prepared for all governance related forums: CMT/EXCO, ALCO, CORC & CRC, meetings. Oversee all forums' documentation and flag issues for CEO and HCO's attention and follow up on progress as appropriate.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the

. * Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.

• Assist the HCO to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Country Management Team (CMT) and their teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in CEO office; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Our Ideal Candidate

• Overall 5+ years of experience in Provide business planning, coordination, and project management support for the HCO therefore enabling focus on operational and strategic business issues.
• Assist the HCO to effectively manage Country (and Rubik Cluster) business objectives and the governance role of the franchise
• Serve as liaison with CMT/EXCO and other stakeholders to effectively manage priorities and facilitate outcomes.
• Manage assigned initiatives on behalf of the HCO behalf.
• Oversee or act as committee secretary for selected governance committees.
• Ensure CEO Office preparedness for engagements and meetings

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong knowledge of SharePoint
• Good Experience in Microsoft office.
• Effective Communications

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