Job Description

Role Responsibilities

The individual will have the responsibility as Project Management/Business Analysis to the Transfer Pricing team.

The role holder should have relevant experience working in Tax / Transfer pricing or background in Financial Reporting domain and have good content knowledge within financial services. Primary focus is to support tracking of project deliverables, running working groups, supporting refinement forum and ensure successful delivery across the Program lifecycle.

• Oversee the co-ordination of program level milestones and adherence to Standard Chartered standards and governance mechanisms.
• Structured and critical thinking to ensure that the program office is set up professionally, operating efficiently and driven to manage outcomes.
• Drive proactive management of issues and risks - working closely with the Product Owners and recognising the overall project level risks and identifying mitigation action plans.
• Drive and manage resourcing / capacity demand and supply working closely with the Technology and Business stakeholders to ensure optimal model and drive productivity metrics.
• Oversee the dependency on execution plans in close collaboration with leads across multi-functional teams. Maintain momentum across the team to keep projects on track.
• View projects through the lens of scaling on a global level by utilising tools and processes.
• Support prioritisation when projects, issues are deemed 'urgent' by assessing what will have the most positive impact on the business/ clients and drive 'trade off' decision making.
• Proactively engaging with project teams, technology partners to ensure accurate and transparent management of financials, escalating to management if needed.
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of performance for regular and responsive management reporting.
• Drive management reporting to senior level executives, responding to requests in a timely and efficient manner.
• Supporting the team in various ad-hoc projects/requests undertaken from time to time.
• Establish engagement cadence with stakeholders to ensure that they are informed and part of the decision-making process, as required.
• Effective and timely communication both across the program team members and stakeholders.
• Ensure all submissions to committees (PED, red packs, closure reports, etc) are timely and with quality.
• Ensure delivery of the project products and processes into BAU.

People and Talent

• Live the values and behaviour of the Bank.
• Demonstrate qualities of good team player.
• Build strong relationships with all stakeholders and encourage collaboration.

Risk Management

• Act as 1st line to manage regulatory risks pertaining to data centre or migration.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• 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 Transfer Pricing team in assigned countries to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment.]*
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

Internal

• Tax
• Technology
• Finance
• Audit
• Risk
• Compliance
• COO team
• Country Tax and Finance teams
• Operational Support teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of banking experience.
• Exp. in Project management in Transfer Pricing or any Tax related Projects.
• Strong Agile project management skills and experience in working within the banking sector with proven track record in Project management.
• Analytical in nature, ability to get into detail on solution design and delivery and engage with stakeholders and delivery team on their level.
• Knowledge on Tax, Transfer Pricing and SAP PAPM.
• Knowledge on corporate, commercial and retail banking products.
• Microsoft related tools - e.g MS Excel, PPT, etc.
• Data migration tools.
• Communication skills/presentation.
• Project Management / Agile.
• Critical Thinking and Analytical skills.
• Multi-cultural awareness.
• Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics.
• Ability to work proactively, independently and displays strong initiative.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Portfolio financials management
• Portfolio resource management
• Transfer Pricing
• Clarity
• Jira
• PSGL / SAP
• Excel
• Powerpoint
• SAP PAPM
• SODA

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 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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