Job Summary

In partnership with Delivery Excellence and Business PMOs, enable Hives to deliver optimal outcomes and financial discipline by providing structured governance, operational support, and proactive oversight across contracts, planning, and spend management.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Ensures that plans established for programme are maintained / tracked to ensure the programme is managed in a manner that maximizes probability of delivery of the programme objectives.
Ensure benefit case for assigned initiatives are achieved 100% and look at innovative ways to bring this forward into the early years of the program.

Processes

Responsible for administers and timely updates on financial, resource plan, and any other static data to various governance forums (i.e., Refinement Forum (RF), Steering Co, Monthly Performance Reviews (MPR), Quarterly Performance Reviews (QPR), etc.). Ensure the data is meaningful, accurate, relevant, and data is current.
Responsible to conduct and run the Refinement forum (RF).
Ensure the re-baseline requests / change requests, closure reports are fully documented before presenting for approval

Risk Management

Coordinates, escalates, and reports on Programme key risks and issues. Recorded in Bank's project management tools (i.e., Clarity, PlanView), and proper and timely mitigations for closure in RF.

Governance

Proactively Manage Contract renewals co-ordinating with DTL/Hive Leads.
Ensure ER / SR is raised and SC Buy process is thoroughly followed.
Ensure risk assessments in engagement requests are properly reviewed and approved
Ensure Forecast Vs Actuals and Budget Variance are properly managed within Hives
Ensure accruals and recharges are properly managed within the financial year
Ensure tasks are created and assigned to resources aligning with capex / opex guidelines.
Review the timesheet submission and ensure no under recovery for the domain.
Work with DTL/Hive Leads to collate and submit projects to BAU flowthrough.
Review the aXess data with the Hive Leads and maintain in the tool. Review and get the sign off from DTL
Coordinate and facilitate the activities for Pre BRP and Big Room Planning
Review the BRP committed features in ADO and share the metrics with Hive management on weekly basis.
Validate the Data Quality in ADO and report to product owners for correction.
Actively participate in DRB process and provide the required inputs for MT approval and sign off.
Raise purchase order requisitions once the SoW is signed off.
Review with hive leads and maintain payment tracker by scheduling monthly calls to review the milestone payments.
Ensure to submit the invoices to finance as per the milestone completion. Follow up with finance team to ensure payment is processed and sent to vendor.

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

Domain Tech Leads
Domain Leads
Hive Leads
Product Owners
Finance
Business Management team
Delivery Excellence
Business PMO
Hive/Squad Members

Skills And Experience

Vendor Contract Management
Financial Management
Timesheet Management
Resource Management
Knowledge in ADO
Agile – Big Room Planning
Clarity
aXess
Supply Chain Management
Strong MS Office skills
Analytical Skills
Communication Skills

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in relevant field
Training: Clarity, ADO, aXess & MS Office.
Language: Excellent English communication skills – oral and written

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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