Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Cost Control & Management Centre of Excellence (COE) is part Group Enablement Services (GES) at Standard Chartered GBS. The role will enable the bank’s investment initiatives (such as Fit For Growth) to drive execution rigour across all portfolios and overall manage the programme.

Key Responsibilities

• Stakeholder management responsibilities
  • Collaborate with Investment Portfolio leads in driving execution rigour, taking into account the bank’s and programme’s goals and financial objectives
  • Constructively challenges leads on assumptions, priorities and goals; asks questions that effectively lead to deeper understanding
  • Bring inside-out and outside-in perspective and propose development of coherent plans of action (jointly with stakeholders) 
• Overall delivery responsibilities
  • Manage delivery support (programme tracking, training, governance) and build project plans with execution focus
  • Review analysis of internal metrics and objectives to develop a future fit strategy 
  • Ownership for troubleshooting current issues and implementing solutions post a thorough analysis of industry best practices and help establish proper objectives and goals (e.g., available through industry reports)
  • Strategic thinking mindset and ability to logically structure and process data into meaningful and actionable recommendations

Regulatory & 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Internal stakeholders

Other Responsibilities

• Experience of running and managing large creative/design initiatives
• Excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills
• Stakeholder management skills and project management skills

Skills and Experience

• Stakeholder management   
• Financial analysis
• Data analysis    

Qualifications

Skills and Requirements:

• Looking for a candidate with 10+ years of relevant experience in project management
• Experience in managing large scale initiatives / programmes spanning across the organisation 
• Banking / Global Business Services domain knowledge is good to have 
• A strategic thinker, entrepreneurial, able to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Capability to drive an independent workstream in the context of a broader team project
• Flexible and creative: ability to propose innovative ideas, build empathy within the firm and win the trust of the clients
• Excellent communication, presentation and documentation skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team and create an inclusive environment with people at all levels of an organization
• Stakeholder management skills and project management skills
• Proven influencing and perseverance skills to tailor recommendation to the needs of stakeholders and effectively engage them to obtain commitment and drive impact
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to proactively identify opportunities and drive results
• Experience of working in a cross functional remote global team
• Develop ExCo friendly presentations with crisp and clear messaging

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months 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.