JOB SUMMARY
Strategy
The Liquidity and IRRBB journey has undertaken a multi-year strategic programme delivering daily high-performance reporting solution and platform with unified data store, integrated risk engines, control framework and MI tools optimizing the current business model and enabling business benefit materialization.
Key element of the Programme is the end-to-end strategic solution for Liquidity and IRRBB Reporting and Risk Metrics across both strategic and regulatory imperatives incorporating control framework and operating model.
Key Responsibilities
· Supporting Chief Product Owner and acts on behalf of Chief Product Owner / Account Executive to ensure business outcomes are executed and materialized
· Support Product Owners and oversight of Scrum Masters on a daily basis
· Conduct appropriate stakeholder engagement and communications to ensure effective delivery of the programme of work
· Program and project planning from strategy analysis through implementation to go live
· Create/maintain up-to-date project and milestone plans with multiple sub streams
· Contribution to analysis and solution design where required
· Manage project reporting to senior stakeholders
· Working as part of a team, the role holder is expected to make a positive contribution to the overall success of the programme more broadly as required
· Driving adoption and alignment with Agile Project delivery frameworks available in the Bank as a business scrum master lead
· Keeping project team well informed of the design, execution and management of dependencies within the programme and outside the programme
· Complete project definition in line with the Bank’s strategic objectives
· Throughout the life of the projects review and prioritise to ensure ongoing alignment
· Ensure development of benefits profiles and active management of benefits realisation
· Manage the programme in accordance with the Bank’s Project Management Standards and external best practices
· Ensure robust and transparent programmatic controls including resource, financial, schedule and quality management, status reporting and governance – including use of automated tooling
· Accountable for change delivery of the Programme directly managing business change teams and overseeing technology delivery
RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy
With the transition into the Build & Maintain model, the Liquidity & IRRBB Hive and Delivery Lead is expected to work with stakeholders in Treasury Liquidity, Group Liquidity Reporting and Global Finance Service to deliver:
· Mandatory work to position for system buffer removal and readiness for potential H1 S166 (country onboarding for 100% balance sheet coverage, FM / CPBB data remediation, batch resilience, DQMF and BCBS full compliance)
· Local capabilities for regional hubs and key markets
· Critical and essential product enhancements for Liquidity and IDL regulatory reporting
· Fermat ALM Decommission
· Strategic RCO IRRBB Day 2 Book-Of-Work (calculation and reporting improvements, data and adjustment remediation, DQMF and BCBS material compliance)
· Regional and country RCO IRRBB roll-outs (HKMA)
· Market risk management and reporting: New commercial balance sheet feed from RCO to SABRE
· Fermat IRRBB Decommission
Business
· Be a fearless leader in driving the adoption and associated operational benefits of the strategic technology
· Proactive in seeking regular assurance that the teams are performing to an acceptable risk and control standard.
· Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees.
· Include all necessary internal, legal and regulatory controls through the development of Global Finance requirements.
· Balance business performance delivery and cost management constraints with risk and control matters to ensure that they do not materially threaten the Group’s ability to remain within risk appetite.
Processes
· Collaborate and partner with Global Process Leaders as part of the Build & Maintain model
· Delivery the infrastructure and capabilities to enable target operating model and control framework
· Optimizing current business model and enabling business benefit materialization through straight-through processing
People & Talent
· Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
· Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
· Employ, engage, and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
· Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
· Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
Risk Management
· Reinforce an effective and exemplary risk and control culture and further strengthen the control environment, ensure that specialist knowledge and skills are assigned to relevant needs.
· Act to minimize operational loss and audit failures and take proactive measures to respond to matters arising and identify and manage forward looking risks.
· Work with relevant teams to identify and mitigate identified operational risks in their areas.
· Through assignment of direct and indirect reports, establish and maintain an appropriate framework and procedures for monitoring, identifying, measuring, assessing, reporting and managing compliance, regulatory, financial crime, operational and reputational risks.
Governance
· Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct in the Global Finance Technology teams to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture.
· Ensure compliance with all salient SCB governance frameworks where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream influence from the Global Finance Technology Team.
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 to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
· Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
· Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)
Key Stakeholders
· Treasury Liquidity Management Team
· Group Liquidity Regulatory Reporting
· Treasury Markets Management Team
· GFS Reporting and Data Global Process Owners and Managers
· Country and Regional CFOs
· Liquidity, FTP and IRRBB Change
· TTO Finance and Functions
· GCFO COO Management Team
Other Responsibilities
· Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)
Our Ideal Candidate
Must Have:
· Strong track record of programme management execution and delivery in transformation projects
· 15+ years of overall work experience and 10+ years of relevant experience combined in Agile and Traditional Project delivery methodologies
· Ability to work proactively, independently when necessary and displays strong initiative.
· Agile framework or PMP certifications
· Excellent communication and presentation skills Consistently high performer and excellent role model of the Banks core values
· High levels of energy and drive, willingness to work hard
· Pragmatic team player with attention to detail
· Hands on experience in delivering Liquidity and IRRBB changes in Tier 1 Bank
· Experience in working in multicultural teams
· Good expertise on organisational design and process implementation to support regulatory driven financial reporting
· Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills covering both senior and operational levels
· Experience of programme definition and delivery in an evolving regulatory environment
Preferred:
· Exposure to production support
· Displays personal authority, integrity and ethics
· Exposure to business architecture principles and methods
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Proven experience in delivering large scale global solution deployments preferably in the financial services environment
· Agile Project Management
· Project Planning
· Management of project scope
· Management of project financials
· Identification & Management of project Risk/Assumptions/Issues/ Dependencies
· Interest Rate Risk – earnings (NII) and value (EVE, PV01)
· Liquidity cashflow mismatch
· LCR, NSFR, SH and other regulatory reports and risk metrics
· Understanding of Bank systems architecture
· Business requirement definition
· Solution design and validation
· End User testing
· ALM and Commercial Book products
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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