Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Under the Client Coverage (CC) Investment Portfolio, the delivery of change initiatives / projects are grouped into various Hives (also known as Programs) to be managed and governed.

The role of the Portfolio Analyst (also known as Project & Program PMO) within the CC Operations Enablement Hive (OE Hive) is to provide administrative, governance support to CC OE Hive CPO, Tech Lead POs and teams across the various underlying initiatives / projects to ensure alignment to

The Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Investment governance standards as guided and directed by CC Portfolio Management, CCIB Portfolio Management, TTO Portfolio Management, Enterprise Portfolio Management

Additional requirements / directives coming top down from across TTO, CCIB & CC

For this role, the main activities include:

Supporting the CC OE Hive Chief Product Owner (CPO) & Tech Lead in planning/prioritisation and execution, mainly by providing and offering data and insights from a look across underlying projects and initiatives mainly in terms of

• Financials (forecast, budget, the business/benefits case)
• Headcount (on seat vs to be hired)
• Risks and Issues relating to Scope, Timeline, Capacity/Resourcing and Cost

Tracking and reporting the status of activities, deliverables and milestones both at the Program level as well as at the underlying/component Projects level

Preparing Programme or Project documentation and reporting as relevant and required e.g. CC OE Hive submissions into the CC OE Hive Refinement Forum (RF), the CC Quarterly/Monthly Performance Review (Q/MPR) forums, TTO Q/MPR/RF or any other steering committee/forums as required

Driving, promoting and aligning the Program and Project Management methods, standards by sharing best practices or proposing and sharing improvements to streamline on Investment Financials, Admin & Governance processes across the various Projects/Initiatives.

Working with CC OE Hive Initiative PO and team to ensuring Clarity, aXess, sharepoint and other golden source systems used across CC Investments is up to date and house-kept at high quality for CC OE Hive Program and its underlying Initiatives and Projects including

• Schedule of activities, focusing on Go Live milestones
• Risks, assumptions, issues and dependency registers
• budget and forecast and resource / capacity plans
• RAG \xe2\x80\x93 overall status, cost, timeline, scope
• Timesheets for Mandays

Ensuring project/program artefacts (including sign off/approval/baseline emails, are stored in a structured, discoverable format for future audit

Reviewing General Ledger /cost journals or other adhoc exception reports received from Finance, TTO/CCIB/CC Portfolio Management, TTO/CCIB/CC COO etc. to ensure correct booking and forecasting of expenses, including ensuring that pending invoices are tracked till completion and reflection into the right Initiative/Project

Support the CC OE Hive CPO, Tech Lead and PO and teams as required

• Schedule meetings (including the booking of meeting venue if needed)
• Support / coordinate T&E bookings
• Taking minutes (mainly for CC OE Hive Refinement Forum, or any other key regular or adhoc meetings)
• Liaison with the CC OE Hive team and other stakeholders if needed
• Represent at meetings as needed
• Coordinate programme/ project activities as needed

Strategy

• The role will support the delivery of the overall CC OE Hive agenda, which in turn rolls up into the CCIB & CC business scorecard and agenda.

Business

• The role will support the delivery of the overall CC OE Hive agenda, which in turn rolls up into the CCIB & CC business scorecard and agenda.

Processes

• CC OE Hive mainly focuses on driving streamlining and automation across CC operations.

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.

• Support the CC OE Hive to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s 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

• Enterprise Portfolio Management
• CCIB Portfolio Management
• TTO Portfolio Management
• Client Coverage (CC) Portfolio Management
• CC COO Management
• CC Operations Enablement Hive CPO, Tech Lead and various Cluster/Project/Initiative POs and teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in CC OE Hive;; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats) where required.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Any Degree from a recognized university
• 5+ years of experience working in Portfolio, Program or Project Management
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or Agile Practitioner
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Be able to operate independently and demonstrate robustness in ethics and resilience.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project Management
• Agile Delivery

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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