Job Description

Role Responsibilities

Role forms part of the 1st line of defence focussed on Balance Sheet Substantiation across 42 countries worldwide.

Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) Information Technology & Operations (ITO) has a dedicated Financial Market Operations which supports market clients and products within Corporate & Institutional Banking (C&IB). FM Operations (FMO) has responsibility for the execution, control and continuous improvement of processes to support our Products & Clients.

This role is for an individual preferably with some experience in Financial Accounting who has strong Projects/ Product Owner experience to manage the transformation changes required in the FMO Balance Sheet Substantiation process using agile methodology. This role to assist the Balance Sheet Control Remediation Lead with Product Ownership and Project Management tasks, maximizing the business value of the product resulting from work done by the transformation teams and drive forward the deliveries, ensuring any impediments are raised and any issues resolved in a proactive way.

The role calls for a self-starter with proven Change Management experience, strong organization skills and good attention to detail to ensure that the various initiatives are managed in a controlled way, under the guidance of the Remediation Lead.

Business Strategy

• This specific Project Support role will be focused on Project Management and Product Ownership aspects involving tracking action points and meeting milestones, preparing regular updates and MIS to key stakeholders, and in partnership with the Remediation Lead to aid with the design and implementation of the areas prioritised initiatives.
• Scope and agree requirements with the Remediation Lead and with internal stakeholders, in-line with the FMO and FM strategies and Regulations
• Together with Remediation Lead, agree a delivery plan that covers the incremental functionalities release, systems migration and people training within appropriate agreed timelines while applying Agile methodology
• Clearly communicating priorities, objectives/goals, mission and acceptance criteria to the Balance Sheet Control Team in the Remediation Lead\xe2\x80\x99s absence.
• Ensuring the Balance Sheet Control team understand items in the Product Backlogs to the level needed and leverage the wider scrum or scrum and cross streams forums.
• Ensuring deliverables are of the desired quality and have appropriate endorsements/ signoffs
• Close engagement and collaboration with the Margin Op and related functions globally, Technology and with internal stakeholders to remove impediments to ensure the system delivered meets the requirements and is on-time,

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and impediments,
• Embed the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Group Code of Conduct in the daily process to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethics, complying with relevant policies, processes and regulations.

Key Stakeholders

• FMO Balance Sheet Control
• FMO MT
• Finance including Product Control
• Operational Risk
• Global FMO Teams
• Global Reconciliation Unit (GRU)

Regulatory & Business Conduct * Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 [country / business unit / function/[team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

Finance/Accounting Knowledge: Have a basic understanding of Financial Accounting.

Delivery Focussed: Ability to work individually and independently to complete set tasks within agreed timeframes. Trustworthy individual capable of high-quality deliveries within a large portfolio of activities.

Change management: Detailed and analytical with a mindset to challenge status quo.

Risk Management and Control: The ability to identify, assess, monitor, control and coordinate mitigation of risks within the Operations function. Awareness of the wider Risk and Control environment and the challenges facing product, process and function heads. Familiarity with operational risk framework control and risk metrics.

Product Knowledge: Basic understanding of the various functions within operations. Key familiarity with FX / MM / Derivatives and Commodities products, lifecycles and accounting flows (the product list is non-exhaustive).

Operations Risk Management: Basic understanding of risks associated with operational processing and common controls used within Operations to mitigate risks.

Software Experience: Experience working with large datasets.

Stakeholder Management: Capable individual with good interpersonal & networking skills. Good judgement on what to escalate and to whom.

Communication: Clear and concise communicator capable of discussing risk and control issues with senior operations stakeholders. Ability to present metric information to highlight key messages to senior operations stakeholders.

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Manage Conduct Core
• Manage Risk Core
• Manage People Not Applicable
• Business Facilitation Core
• Manage Change Advanced
• Business Governance & Support Advanced
• Strategy & Business Model Core
• Service Delivery & Operations Core

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 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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you\'ve applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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