About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.
We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
Job Scope
The successful candidate will be part of the equities and credit technology team building solutions leveraging data, risk/analytics, automation across the full lifecycle of the business. This is a rare opportunity for a self-driven, strong and passionate program manager to participate and contribute to a paradigm shift. We want People driven by the mission!
The Role Responsibilities
- Ensure deliverables comply with the Banks' program and project management policies and the highest standards of good governance are maintained. This will include reporting to senior management through formal committees/reports, working with Technology, PMO and COO colleagues, and management of these processes
- Scope management: Work with business stakeholders to manage delivery scope, schedule, and mitigation of identified risks. Drive cross-team coordination and prioritization of work relating to Products, Segments, T&I
- Develop and execute the overall plan and analyze backlog and priorities which impacts the schedule and budget variance which in turn contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the Program.
- Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks at multiple levels.
- Risk and Governance management: manage the overall Programme risk profile, track risk aging, work-through escalations, change governance and related issues. Implement the risk mitigation plans.
- Organise and facilitate PgSC meetings (or any other governance meetings) , chair Project Working Group (PWG) meetings, including attendees from all required countries across the Region
- Reporting: Measure, monitor and report progress to stakeholders at various levels of organisation across the enterprise with the right quality and consistency in content. Implement Project & Programme communication plans and review status reports prepared by Project personnel and modify schedules or plans as required.
- financial management: Analyse and report program financial variance and take corrective action to keep financials and run rate healthy.
- Drive effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and commitment across multiple disparate groups with competing priorities.
Our Ideal Candidate
Candidate background - The candidate must come with solid experience with
- A bank or product company with a strong program management/delivery skills
- Delivering projects with a strong technology flavour for financial markets / Equity derivatives OTC and Notes structured products and financing (delta-1 / prime desk)
- Successfully delivered mission critical projects or managing a tech team with a budget of USD 5M / Year equivalent.
- From an academic perspective: successfully achieved a Master level in Science/Technology or Business with strong technology background
Technology and domain skills
- We are a technology team and being passionate and skilful in Tech is important to us
- Front to back systems understanding
- Marking (volatility and forward), Pricing
- Distribution of prices
- Risk and analytics
- Derivatives tech and delta-1
- Ability to learn new tools/systems (risk, processing systems) and understanding technology and functional designs.
- Strong knowledge of PL/SQL and Excel, PowerPoint, JIRA, Confluence
- Broad understanding of technology & modern stacks
- One area with deep experience/knowledge
Soft skills
- Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills in all forms (speaking and business writing) to all audiences, and the ability to promote change.
- Outstanding problem-solving skills
- Proactive, self-starter, autonomous Self-motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results
- Time-aware
- Ability to stay calm & focused when under pressure to deliver a service.
- Willingness & ability to work alongside more experienced team members to obtain knowledge.
- Good team spirit
- Extreme curiousness
Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.
To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working. |
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