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’.
As part of the Programme, a central team, the FFG Progarmme 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 opportunity is for someone to join the Governance workstream and be responsible for all relevant governance artefacts, such as the Programme Management Plan document, Terms of Reference, Steering Committee Decks, Minutes, etc. Prospective candidates must have significant demonstrable experience in producing these artefacts in a large scale transformation Programme environment.
Key Responsibilities
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.
Business
• Understanding how the Businesses (and Functions) are structured via the Portfolios within the broader FFG Programme.
• Understanding the initiatives being undertaken within the wider FFG Programme and the data and dashboards being used to track progress.
• Understanding the systems being used (i.e. Clarity and SAGE) within the wider FFG Programme to capture the data used to track progress.
• Working closely with the Portfolio Leads, their delegates, teams and the FFG Programme Office to help produce materials and populate templates for submission to the various committees.
• Working closely with the Portfolio Leads, their delegates, teams and the FFG Programme Office to follow-up on and close out actions from the various committees.
Processes
• Primary end-to-end responsibility for developing and managing against a plan for producing all governance artefacts within agreed timeframes.
• Primary end-to-end responsibility for producing all governance artefacts to a best practice standard, such as the Programme Management Plan document, Terms of Reference, Steering Committee Decks, Minutes, etc.
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.
Skills and Experience
Governance
• Understanding the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Supporting the FFG Programme’s governance agenda, including leading on producing meeting materials such as meeting decks and minutes.
• Detailed understanding the Change Delivery Standards and Guidance, ensuring all forums are compliant with all change-related policies and standards.
• Assisting the Portfolio Lead, delegates, and their teams with broader Programme governance-related queries.
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.
• Lead the team 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.
Key stakeholders
• FFG Accountable Executives.
• FFG Programme Director.
• FFG Managing Directors.
• FFG Portfolio Leads.
• FFG Portfolio Delegates and teams
• FFG Finance.
Our Ideal Candidate
· Relevant University degree / qualification.
· 10+ years of experience in Programme 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
· Change Management
· Communication
· Data Analysis and Visualisation
· Effective Presentation
· 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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