Job Description

The Role Responsibilities
The Business Planning and Strategy team requires a financial PMO to support the management of a large investment portfolio. The successful candidate will be a Financial PMO Analyst with an educational background in Business Administration, majoring in either IT Management or Finance in addition. He or she will be a trusted advisor to our initiative leads and scrum masters and enable them to "Do the Right Thing", maintaining strong financial and process governance across the portfolio. In addition, the incumbent has a keen interest in Financial Markets and new emerging technologies, which will help them to grow in the bank, given this is a position which could has the potential to develop into a Scrum Master or Business Analyst or Project Manager role in the future.
Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Support initiative owners by managing project financials holistically.
• Perform regular program/project report consolidation and submission.
• Support Refinement Forums with the necessary segment data for reporting.
• Analyse trends, highlight issues and work with relevant parties to resolve issues.
• Tracking and reporting of project milestones, risks and issues and project artefacts and ensure these are managed in line with SCB\'s policies.
• Ensure control around vendor engagements (SOWs, Sourcing/Engagement requests, supplier management processes and controls).
• Manage headcount approvals, accurately track and report staff headcount by different employment categories.
• Produce monthly management reports by consolidating project achievements and concerns.
• Support New Ways of Working with any inputs required for the respective forums.
• Conduct additional research tasks on new technologies as assigned (therefore Financial Markets knowledge and keen interest in capital markets, emerging trends is highly preferred).

Our Ideal Candidate
Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years\' experience in project/program financial management.
• Bachelor\'s degree in business or a related field (Economics, IT Management).
• Proven ability to work independently, driven, able to deal with ambiguity.
• Diligence and good numerical / analytic skills.
• Strong planning, organizational, and time management skills.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Competency in Clarity or other project financials management software.

Desirable

• Agile qualification (Agile Basics, Scrum Master certification).
• Keen interest in Financial Markets.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Strong financial analytic skills including dashboard and report building.

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 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good 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 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.

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