Project Manager

Job Summary

• Creates strong credibility for self within the project team based on respect
• Drives team members toward delivering on their commitments
• Creates feeling of cohesiveness and positive working environment within the project team
• Conflicts and difficult interpersonal situations are tackled and dealt with effectively
• Demonstrates good technical and/ or business understanding to manage project effectively
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Management

• Builds and maintains strong, positive relationships with stakeholders
• Ensures key stakeholders are kept aware of project status, risks & issues (‘no surprises’)
• Manages vendor deliverables and resolves vendor issues
  
  

People & Talent*

Not applicable since not

Risk Management*

• Identifies risks and issues early in their existence and maintains the project risk and issue registers on a weekly basis
• Produces and manages documented, specific resolution action plans, actively seeking to close open items by working with risk/issue owners.
  
  

Processes/ Governance*

Initiative Delivery, Planning and Tracking

• Delivers initiative benefits defined by the business on time within budget whilst adhering to organisational quality standards
• Builds and maintains initiative plans and schedules showing and accounting for internal and external dependencies
• Proactively identifies and successfully manages any schedule issues and interdependencies with other projects with no unplanned delays to the project
• Produces detailed project estimates and validates externally provided estimates carefully
• Evaluates impact of any requested scope change and presents this to Refinement Forum for discussion
• Ensures resource requirements/forecasts are built into project schedule and transferred and maintained monthly in Clarity
• Updates and reviews Lessons Learnt (both intra project and organisational), both prior to and during each project and ensures that no previous mistakes are repeated
• Maintains the project and BAU metrics library (i.e. actuals against estimates)
  
  

Project Governance, Process and Standards

• Ensures projects are delivered according to SCB Governance requirements,
• Ensure that ceremonies involving multiple Squads are executed efficiently and provide the right outputs to drive and orchestrate deliveries.
• Provides effective coordination and timely recording of minutes & action plans from various project forums
• Manages the configuration of project artefacts, ensuring they are up to date
• Proactively engages with project team to resolve areas of non-process compliance, escalating to the Leadership if needed
• Coordinates the transformation of features into backlog items, ensure the alignment of the Squads building and delivering these backlog items (dependencies, resources contention, release trains alignment etc.)
• Handle the non-Agile administrative work and supports the Product Owners when engaged by the controls/processes Functions
  
  

Communication/ Reporting

• Contributes to, analyses and produces management information on regular cycles as required
• Communicates status (including risks and issues) to central project reporting functions on time without being chased
• Provides information that facilitates informed and timely decision making
  
  

Financial Management

Manages project budgets, controls spending against the planned cost, analyses any variance and takes necessary corrective action to stay on Green status for Cost, provides timely forecasts and reporting as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree
• Banking/Fintech experience mandatory
• Trade Finance domain experience preferred.
  
  

Skills And Experience

13+ Years of experience in Project or Program Management

Negotiation Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Change Management

Problem Solving

Communication Management

Concern for Quality and Standards

Project Coordination

Project Reporting

Project Schedule Development and Management

Project Financial Management

Project Reporting

Risk & Issue Management

Scope Development and Management

Understands and follows Bank governance processes

Utilises a formal Project Framework

About Standard Chartered

Were an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, weve 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 youre 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 cant 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, youll 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.

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