Programme Director

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East.To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role ResponsibilitiesThe Treasury and Liquidity Change function is undertaking a multi-year strategic programme delivering scalable high-performance solution and platform with unified data store, integrated risk engines and analytical Business Intelligence tool optimizing the current business model and enabling business benefit materialization.Key elements of the Programme:

• End-to-end solution for Internal Liquidity Metrics and Regulatory Imperatives including integration with up and downstream systems as well as Business Intelligence (BI) layer
• Scope covering risk metrics measurement, reporting, simulations, forecasting, stress testing and recovery scenario analysis

Key Responsibilities:The Program Director will assist in delivering this programme by:

• Supporting Chief Product Owner and acts on behalf of Chief Product Owner / Account Executive to ensure business outcomes are executed and materialized
• Support Product Owners and oversight of Scrum Masters daily
• Conduct appropriate stakeholder engagement and communications to ensure effective delivery of the programme of work
• Establish the programme roadmap based on the Chief Product Owner visions and priorities taking into consideration budget and capacity constraints
• Programme planning from strategy analysis through implementation to go live
• Create/maintain up-to-date programme and milestone plans with multiple sub streams
• Contribution to analysis and solution design where required
• Manage programme reporting to senior stakeholders
• Working as part of a team, the role holder is expected to make a positive contribution to the overall success of the programme more broadly as required
• Driving adoption and alignment with Agile Project delivery frameworks available in the Bank as a business scrum master lead
• Keeping each project team well informed of the design, execution and management of dependencies within the programme and outside the programme
• Complete programme definition in line with the Bank s strategic objectives
• Ensure development of benefits profiles and active management of benefits realisation
• Manage the programme in accordance with the Bank s Project Management Standards and external best practices
• Ensure robust and transparent programmatic controls including resource, financial, schedule and quality management, status reporting and governance including use of automated tooling
• Accountable for change delivery of the Programme directly managing business change teams and overseeing technology delivery
• Responsibility on leading/coaching/developing/retaining talent i.e. people management

RequirementsMust Have:

• Strong track record of programme management execution and delivery in transformation projects
• 10+ years of overall work experience and 6+ years of relevant experience combined in Agile and Traditional Project delivery methodologies
• Ability to work proactively, independently when necessary and displays strong initiative.
• Agile framework or PMP certifications
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with a very good standard of English (written and spoken).
• Consistently high performer and excellent role model of the Banks core values
• High levels of energy and drive, willingness to work hard
• Pragmatic team player with attention to detail
• Hands on experience in delivering Treasury changes in Tier 1 Bank or treasury department of large corporations.
• Hands on experience in delivering changes for Foreign Exchange products in financial services or treasury department of large corporations.
• Experience in working in multicultural teams
• Good expertise on organisational design and process implementation to support regulatory driven financial reporting
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills covering both senior and operational levels
• Experience of programme definition and delivery in an evolving regulatory environment

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

Keyskills :
role modelscrum masterfinancial servicesprogram managementquality managementpresentation skillscommunication skillsbusiness intelligencestakeholder managementprocess implementation