Job Summary
The Group’s Fit For Growth (FFG) Programme commenced in Q1 2024, with the aim of simplifying, standardising, and digitising the Bank’s processes, to provide a platform for Business growth and to ‘make it easier to get things done’. The Programme has $1.5bn of investment funding for distribution to generate $1.5bn of annualised saves.
As part of the Programme, a central team, the FFG Programme Office, has been established to help structure, co-ordinate, prioritise, support, and monitor the initiatives that will be selected to deliver the efficiencies and growth opportunities. The team will also help to manage the governance, communications and reporting of the broader Programme.
This role has diverse responsibilities including: reviewing and challenging investment cases for funding approval; getting into the detail of each portfolio of initiatives; being close to stakeholders to support execution certainty; monitoring and analysing the overall portfolio and acting as an advisor as the programme progresses.
The ideal candidate will be very curious, bright, enjoy ambiguity and working in a start-up style environment, hands-on, analytical with good story-telling presentation skills.
Strategy
• Articulating the high-level FFG opportunity for the Bank, and the breaking-down that by Business and Function (i.e. Portfolio), in order to provide clarity and transparency on the objectives of the Programme.
• Understanding the overall FFG Programme structure, covering all Portfolios, whether Business, Functional or pan-Bank, their teams, programmes, and initiatives
Key Responsibilities
Business
• Working closely with the Portfolio Leads their delegates and teams for a range of workstreams (e.g. WRB, Procurement, Tech, CIB) to ensure that objectives are clear, and delivery is tracked and reviewed on a regular basis.
• Understanding key Business and Functional opportunities for simplifying, standardising, and digitising the Bank’s processes and overall capability
• Understanding in detail one or more of the portfolios, thereby assisting with the identification and monitoring of efficiency and optimisation initiatives.
Processes
• Supporting the management of the FFG funding clearing house process, ensuring the right opportunities in are reviewed, challenged, and prioritised to receive investment spend.
• Understanding in detail the approaches, processes, and methodologies to identify efficiency saving opportunities.
• Understanding the processes and tools for tracking business cases through-out the lifecycle of a Programme to value delivery and realisation.
People & Talent
• Leading through example and helping to build an appropriate team culture and values.
• Setting an appropriate tone and expectations and working in collaboration with all stakeholders and partners.
Risk Management
• Understanding the main risks facing the Group and the potential impact that the Programme could have on the ability of the Bank to manage those risks.
• Identifying and communicating FFG Programme risks and issues for monitoring through-out the lifecycle of the Programme.
Governance
• Understanding the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Understanding the Change Delivery Standards and Guidance, ensuring approved initiatives are managed in line with the Bank’s various governance policies and procedures.
• Supporting the FFG Programme’s governance agenda, including assisting with producing materials such as meeting decks and minutes.
• Assisting the Portfolio Lead, delegates, and their teams with broader Programme governance-related queries.
Skills and Experience
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
• FFG Accountable Executives.
• FFG Programme Director.
• FFG Portfolio Leads.
• FFG Portfolio Delegates and teams
• FFG Finance.
Our Ideal Candidate
· Relevant University degree / qualification.
· 10+ years of experience in Change Management
· Working knowledge of the Clarity investment planning solution.
· Project Management experience and/or training.
· Relevant experience in reviewing and assessing business cases.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Accuracy and Attention to Details
· Business Case Justification
· Communication
· Financial Analysis
· Industry Knowledge
· Project Management
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.
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