Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Governance:

• Responsible for preparation of programme materials for various senior programme management committees, risk committees, and for the preparation of regulatory updates.
• Ensure that clear and accurate status reporting is being provided to governance committees
• Orchestrate/Facilitate decision making processes between senior stakeholders, as required
• Ensure projects respect internal policies and frameworks, and also the overarching programme governance standards. Set the project ready to pass internal audits

Planning and tracking

• Manage programme office activities and deliverables across multiple projects / programmes within the Regulatory Technology space.
• Work with, and provide challenge to, project managers covering delivery across multiple teams.
• Ensure that project and programme delivery is following expected schedule/plan. Manage and track delivery milestones in a structured fashion, providing governance visibility.
• Help manage and resolve dependencies between multiple project streams, with appropriate escalation as required. Coordinate cross-stream delivery issues to resolution.
• Ensure project priorities, as defined through the respective project and programme governance committees, are followed.
• From participating in Project discussions, have the ability to identify, articulate and manage all RAID and change requests in a structured fashion, providing governance visibility.

Other responsibilities

• Ensure consistent quality control and standards across all programme mandatory artefacts.
• Build a strong and effective relationship with the key stakeholders in areas including Financial Markets, COO, Regulatory Operations, Compliance & Technology teams.

Strategy

• Define and implement the processes and controls to deliver regulatory projects/programmes.
• Understanding of Regulatory requirements, Technology Architecture, Solution Design, Implementation and Delivery.

Business

• Co-ordinate and support delivery of the roadmap that is aligned with the ongoing objective of Risk Reduction from a Regulatory Compliance perspective, for assigned projects, on schedule, on budget, and to the highest quality standards, to achieve compliance risk reduction.
• Manage relationships with relevant stakeholders on related projects, collaborating closely with them and their teams.

Processes

• Agile Project and Programme management
• Define and manage Project plan including dependencies.
• CRAID Management and escalation as appropriate
• Ensuring adherence to Programme standards (e.g., progress reporting, risks and issues, change control, configuration management, etc.) across the Work Streams
• Manage dependencies between all impacted workstreams

People & Talent

• Proactively manage resourcing in team and on projects to support successful delivery.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
• Mentor and support members of the team
• Foster good relationships with the Function Leads and Stakeholders.

Risk Management

• Identify project and business risks, escalating to the Accountable Executive and Stream Leads (as appropriate) with strategies to mitigate that risk.
• Ensure all implementations mitigate risk where possible

Governance

• Adhere to SCB Programme Management good practice and governance. High level definition of what that entail is:

• Management Reporting - assisting the project managers in the production of refinement forum packs to ensure that project financials and headcount are accurately and consistently reported across the programme.
• Programme Governance - ensuring that the programme is consistently following the standards for project management and assisting junior project managers to come up the curve where appropriate.
• Vendor Management - maintain a register of vendors used across the programme and ensuring adherence to the vendor management policies of the Bank.

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.

• Lead the projects / programme team 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.
• Ensure Projects meet the requisite control points to pass internal audits

Key stakeholders

• Accountable Executive for related projects/programmes.
• Global Head Regulatory Technology, Financial Markets.
• Project and Programme Managers associated with STAR and related projects/programmes.
• Technology development teams - upstream and downstream dependencies.
• Refinement Forum stakeholders - group and regional.
• Key Functions involved in related projects, which can include any combination of: Operations, Legal, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Corporate Secretariat, Tax, Finance, Risk and Strategy.
• Infrastructure teams across the Bank, including IT.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5 years in Project Management in a Financial Markets Banking environment on large scale change programs or equivalent.
• Experience of, and certification in formal Project Management methodology, e.g. Prince 2, PMP, ScrumMaster
• Thorough understanding of the Project Lifecycle.
• Experience working in a Financial Markets environment, facing senior FM stakeholders.
• Solid Financial Markets knowledge, encompassing products and trade life cycle. Knowledge of regulatory regimes, especially MIFID II, DoddFrank would be highly beneficial.
• Experience of Governance and Assurance Activities.
• Excellent organizational, problem solving, and written/verbal communication skills

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project Management
• Experience of regulatory regimes (e.g.: MIFID, SFTR, EMIR/Dodd Frank)
• Change Management - Experience of managing change - both project leadership and business analysis skills
• Experience of cross products & trade lifecycle in a Financial Markets environment
• Requirements Analysis
• Excellent Communication Skills
• Stakeholder management with senior managers

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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