Job Description

The Role Responsibilities
Overall:
The financial crime end to end programme aims to evaluate FC processes E2E to improve client experience, enhance control effectiveness and deliver cost transparency. The role of the PM is to lead the successful delivery of the Programme and support the Accountable Executives in the following:

• Providing a strategic view of the product(s), customers and business associated within and associated with the Programme
• End to end delivery of the Programme including milestones, costs, benefits outlined in the SIRF Investment Proposal
• Appointing a suitably experienced Programme Manager and consultants within budget if required
• Establishing and chairing a diligent and effective PgSC with appropriate membership if required
• Ensuring risks are appropriately managed with the Risk Appetite, overseeing mitigation and resolution of risks and issues which may impair delivery, escalating unresolved risks/issues
• Seeking to maximise benefits and identifying new unforeseen benefits within Programme
• Transitioning and handing over to BAU, securing their sign off before Programme closure.
• Owning the review of Benefits over the lifecycle
• When requested, presenting the Programme Closure report to the RF before the Programme is closed
• Ensuring the Programme complies with the Change Governance Policy and WoWS
• Ensuring that PIRs are completed adequately

Strategy

• Drive the strategy and vision for the Programme.
• Deliver key strategic updates to the projects as well as updates that impact the Group.
• Anticipate and provide solutions to complex strategic questions and manage numerous senior internal stakeholders within the Group.
• Where specific subject matter expertise is required, bring together and facilitate the optimal outcome for the Group and communicate it in a clear and compelling way to key stakeholders.
• Manage the strategic communications across the Group up to Management Team and, in some cases, Board level on relevant projects.
• Preparation of Regulatory materials for updates and providing those updates to the relevant regulators where required.
• Coordinate the Group\'s response to Industry / Regulatory consultations on IBOR discontinuation and associated impact areas.

Business

• Manage relationships with MT level business and functional stakeholders on related projects, collaborating closely with them and their teams.
• Work closely with businesses impacted by relevant regulations to solve issues and spot opportunities as they arise.
• Proactively promote and communicate relevant project narrative across key stakeholders including regional management and support functions as required.

Processes

• Provide end-to-end PMO support for the Programme and responsible projects.
• Drive the timeline for these projects - ensure all responsible parties across the streams delivers according to the agreed timeline for each phase. Own and maintain related Global project plans.
• Work closely with other business and functional leads to ensure effective communications.
• Drive relevant programme and project agendas and documentation, available for regulatory inspection if required. Alternate chair of the PgSC in absence of the accountable executive.
• Ensure good programme governance through programme / project disciplines, oversight committees and correct documentation of programme plans, approaches and documentation (as outlined in the Bank\'s Programme Governance Policy and Project Management Standards).

People and Talent

• Employ, engage and retain a high quality diverse workforce, with succession planning for critical roles.
• Lead a performance management process to ensure direct reports have defined responsibilities and objectives; transparent and balanced feedback; and clear and achievable career aspirations.

Risk Management

• Identify, escalate and resolve issues that have the potential to hinder or delay the implementation of the required steps under the Programme.
• Resolve any issues or conflicts arising under the Programme. Work with other key project teams around the Group to ensure inter-dependencies are appropriately considered and managed.

Governance

• Support full budget setting accountability for initiatives/projects, with budgets likely to be significant at a Group level.
• Drive and manage budget decisions within the organisation of their responsibility.
• Manage audits and assurance reviews, both internal and external.

Key stakeholders

• Accountable Executive for the Programme
• Programme Steering Committees and relevant Project Steering Committees
• Leads for any key Business Working Groups within the Programme structure, including CPBB, Financial Markets, Lending and Transaction Banking
• Key Functions involved in related projects, including Legal, CFCC, Tax, Finance, Risk and parts of Treasury
• Business COO teams on relevant projects

Our Ideal Candidate

• Degree qualified with at least 15 years in banking, specifically experience in managing large complex projects.
• Some overall understanding of the two businesses CCIB CPBB, financial crime, technology and operations, in particular the ability to join the dots and manage end to end.
• Highly strategic, consultative and solution oriented with the ability to assess and understand SC business & organisational issues/requirements.
• Strong execution capability, high discipline with excellent project management skills
• Strong relationship management skills. Strong ability to manage and effectively influence multiple stakeholders including senior management
• Strong analytical capability
• Very strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills i.e. PowerPoint, Excel
• Strong team orientation. Ability to work effectively in cross-cultural, cross-geographical, matrix environments
• High level of responsiveness, sense of urgency; ability to operate in a highly pressure & dynamic environment
• Strong drive for results, ability to plan, track and follow through to deliver an aggressive project plan
• Role model for the Bank\'s valued behaviours, particularly around integrity and confidentiality

Role Specific Competencies

• Change Management
• Business Acumen
• Policies and Standards (relevant CFCC and others)
• Cross-functional Collaboration
• Process Management
• Understanding Customer Needs

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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