Manager| Change COE

Role Responsibilities

Job Summary

Define key responsibilities to reflect the duties and responsibilities of this role.

The Change role in India will play a critical role as a member of the Aspire Core Finance Change CoE responsibility for the end-end solution delivery of Project Management

Responsibilities

The Core Finance Change PMO - will:
• Collaborate with the Central PMO team – Create project plans, budget and finance packs for the project team
• Closely monitor project milestones, risks and mitigation.
• Maintain team budget numbers and present the forecast and budget burns as required.
• Collaborate with project managers on resource requirements and hiring process.
• Front handle the weekly/bi-weekly calls with stakeholders/ project leads on the progress
• Timely submission of weekly/bi-weekly/monthly/quarterly project updates to management team/stakeholders
• Assist project managers with project delivery life cycle.

Strategy

Programme "Aspire" is a multi-year investment programme to transform Finance to a global target model. This involves investment to replace the infrastructure, and move to a more centralised, standardised and automated business model. This will enable faster processing, easier and more frequent access to information, at lower levels of cost.

Business

As part of this programme, SCB is currently undergoing a comprehensive transformation which includes developing a new organisational and operational approach to Finance. It aims at cloud-based single instance general ledger and a detailed, granular data store that is shared with the Risk function. This will enable faster monthly close and daily reporting, centralised regulatory reporting capability, self-service MIS, and automated controls.

Processes
• Responsible for Project Management Stakeholder Management Budget Management

People & Talent
• Build strong relationships with key delivery partners, and ensure efficiencies and synergies are realised across programmes.
• Build effective communication channels with wider senior finance leadership.
• High quality written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to focus on multiple initiatives and subjects at the same time
• Ensure strong engagement with senior leaders and stakeholders across Finance.
• Employ, engage and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
• 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

Identifying, assessing, monitoring, controlling and mitigating risks as required by the role and ensuring the group risk policy and framework is adhered to by the team.

Governance
• Ensure group standards are maintained with the correct level of due diligence and control considered as part of programme documentation
• Ensure effective governance and project management standards are applied across all delivery responsibilities
• Ensure testing standards are as per project requirement and appropriate follow up action taken on the defects

Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the .
• 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 GFS 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*
• Aspire Core Finance Leadership team
• GL Country Governance leadership team
• Head of GCFO Change and Strategic Transformation
• Finance Operations and Transformation Management Team
• Other Stream leads in the ASPIRE programme (Data, Consolidations, Finance, Treasury)
• GPOs for Data, R2R, P2P, BSM
• Head, Group Regulatory Reporting
• Country, Region, and Segment CFOs
• Finance Technology team.

Qualifications

Training, licenses, memberships and certifications

Required:
• Bachelor degree with 7+ years of experience working with Project Management within financial services.
• Experience/ Expertise in Finance, General Ledger and Reporting

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES AND PROFICIENCY LEVELS*
• Technical Competency Name: Proficiency Levels
• Experience in managing reporting process and systems or a sub ledger environment (preferably with SAP technology).
• Strong management skills and experience of agile methodologies in project implementation role Core
• Previous experience in defining and implementation of strategic target operating model within the financial services sector Advanced
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and collaborative mindset Expert
• Good understand of cross-border cost accounting best practise. Advanced
• Excellent Product Knowledge across all domains from Retail to Financial Markets. Advanced
• Able to define and implement robust control frameworks and understands operational risk frameworks.
• Broad understanding of numerous Finance areas including regulatory reporting and Treasury
• Business analysis mindset with an extensive track record in solving problems and troubleshooting issues

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 , together with our brand promise, to be are achieved by how we each live our . 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 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