Job Description

The PMO will provide governance and oversight of the CIB - Cash Discretionary and Regulatory portfolio

• Strive to standardize our processes and output, enforcing compliance to PMO standards and introduce economies of repetition
• Act as the champion of project management best practise
• Curate the documentation generated by the projects under management
• Support the successful delivery of projects through effective facilitation, tracking and reporting

The PMO role is key to the success of the program and critical in ensuring a well governed, proactively well organised and managed program. While scale, scope and complexity of projects may vary, the responsibilities are required to be delivere under tight deadlines, across multiple geographic locations, with demanding stakeholders and under strict financial scrutiny.

The ideal candidate is familiar with project controls, administration and toolsets across project delivery life cycle. He/she is "critical thinker", actively demonstrating their analytical skills, ingenuity, initiative and sound judgment when it comes to supporting the Program Managers in all aspects of the project delivery. They will be well organised with a structured approach to problem solving, organising and communicating to stakeholders.

Strategy

• Provide information to management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making presentations of findings and analysis and make recommendations
• Track and improve financial status by analyzing results and monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions

Business

• Coordinates the agenda for the recurring Refinement Forum meetings, and works with the chairs and presenters to procure, standardise and agree the content submitted
• Prepare governance forum MOM & ensure traction of action items on a regular basis and track till closure
• Produce portfolio reporting on the program and workstream status as supporting materials for the regular Working group

Processes

• Ensure Clarity and the project documentation are updated on a regular basis by self, Tribe Lead, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Project Managers, review content periodically and alert to data quality issues driven to closure
• Act as conduit amongst Product Owners / Tribe Lead / Scrum Masters and Project Managers with the PMO, Technology Finance and the Governance & Business Management teams on all aspects of Program governance and administration

People and Talent

• Perform resource management tasks in Clarity e.g. administer time booking, task allocation to resources
• Maintains resources allocation, including prioritisation and resource management with alignment to JIRA backlog

Risk Management

• Active monitoring of the risks / issues raised for the initiatives under the Book of Work and ensure proper mitigation actions are in place and tracked to closure.

Governance

• Curate and ensure project documentation completeness and alignment to SDF, nWOWS and Change Governance Policy.

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

Chief Product Owner, Tribe Lead, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Technology Head, Project Managers, Group Finance, Enterprise Change Management, Clarity team

Other Responsibilities

Explore opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency in the daily tasks or other relevant areas

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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