Role Responsibilities
Job Summary
Standard Chartered needs a Hive Tech Lead to drive the success of the Liquidity and IRRBB journey, which drives liquidity and interest rate risk management for Standard Chartered Group and it’s regional Treasury Hubs. This role sits within Treasury Technology team and will work closely with Treasury Liquidity, Treasury IRRBB, Finance Ops, Treasury Technology and Finance Change teams.
The Hive Tech Lead will be accountable to drive technology strategy, project delivery, process, people agenda, risk and governance of the journey.
Responsibilities
Strategy
· Responsible - Awareness of SCB’s group strategy and steer hive strategy to achieve group outcomes
· Responsible - Alignment of technology strategy to business strategy
· Accountable - Management and measurement of strategic outcomes
· Accountable - Align Liquidity/IRRBB Hive activities towards Technology Strategy/ Scorecard
Business
· Accountable – Delivery of strategic technology systems for Liquidity and IRRBB
· Responsible – Drive effectiveness and efficiencies of Liquidity/IRRBB Hive to achieve business outcomes
· Informed – Awareness of Liquidity and Interest Rate Risk methodologies and the impact to the bank’s business
· Accountable – Ensures timely and stable running of systems owned by the hive
Processes
· Accountable – Implement systems operations processes leveraging the disciplines of SRE (Systems Reliability Engineering)
· Accountable – continue transition of domain over to ongoing Incremental Change (IC) model under Build & Maintain (B&M)
People & Talent
· Responsible – Building and maintaining strong technologists and technology leaders
· Accountable – Overall people leadership responsibility for technology teams with diverse skill sets, including budgeting, interviewing, hiring, coaching and developing more T-shaped/ M-shaped colleagues.
· Responsible – Ensuring squads are adequately resourced and fully funded
Risk Management
· Responsible - Management of third party risks related to usage of vendors and associated technologies
· Accountable – Manages all information and cyber security risks owned by the hive
· Accountable – Understands and manages capacity and resiliency of systems
Governance
· Accountable – Adherence of all hive releases to prevailing System Delivery Framework
· Accountable – Ensure the Liquidity/IRRBB domain adheres to all tech governance standards across ICS, risk, audit, resilience, service level dimensions
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.
· Lead the Liquidity/IRRBB Hive 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.
Key stakeholders
· CIO, Functions
· Head of Treasury Technology
· Head, Liquidity Change
· Liquidity/IRRBB Product Owners
· Head Treasury Liquidity
· Head Treasury IRRBB
· Head, Treasury - Modelling & Platforms
· Global Head, GCFO Change and Aspire Programme
· Global Head of Technology, Finance Data, Capital
Other Responsibilities
· Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Liquidity/IRRBB Hive
Our Ideal Candidate
· 10+ years of experience in a Banking industry
· Expertise in driving liquidity and interest rate risk management for treasury hubs
· Equivalent of a university level bachelors degree
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Information Management
· System and Technology Integration
· Planning: Tactical, Strategic
· Influencing Through Expertise
· IT Governance
· Finance and Accounting
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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