Job Description

Job Summary
This role in Client Coverage Technology is within PE Hive for the position of Lead Project management .
The ideal candidate is familiar with project controls, administration, and toolsets across project delivery life cycle. The candidate should be "critical thinker", actively demonstrating their analytical skills, ingenuity, initiative, and sound judgment when it comes to supporting the Project Manager/s in all aspects of the project delivery. The candidate should be well organised with a structured approach to problem solving, organising and communicating to stakeholders.
This role entails close working relationship with the respective counterparts in COO, Ops and global leads from within and other Technology & Innovation (T&I) teams to execute the strategic priorities for PE sub domain.
You have a strong drive to succeed (i.e. willing to roll-up your sleeves to drive success). Additionally, you are solutions-focused as well as have the ability to execute tactically with minimum supervision and guidance across a geographically dispersed team.
Key Responsibilities
Standard Job Requirements

• Financial Management
• Expert knowledge in managing the financials of a large IT project/s in the range of $ 15-20m
• Track project expenses related to staff, vendors, infrastructure, licenses
• Ensure timely and proper issuance of purchase orders and processing of invoices, liaising with vendors
• Work with large amount of numerical data, perform data analysis and provide a transparent and detailed report to the management.
• Track and improve financial status by analysing results and monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions
• Maintain and track purchase orders, invoices, accruals (intra month and annual).
• Resource Management
• Manage hiring requirements for the team
• Interact with HR and vendors to ensure right fit of resources on geographies, skills, experience level, niche skilled resources, diversity inclusion, contract staff
• Perform resource management tasks in Clarity e.g. administer time booking, task allocation to resources
• Vendor resources onboarding/offboarding activities, Fieldglass Management
• PMO Activities
• Provide information to management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making presentations of findings and analysis and make recommendations
• Ensure Project deliverables are maintained end to end accurately (project summary info, budget, status, resource demand & supply, major risk/issues/dependencies Red-Amber-Green (RAG) status) in Clarity PPM
• Produce portfolio reporting on the program and workstream status as supporting materials for the regular Working group
• Ensure Clarity and the project documentation are updated on a regular basis by team and project Manager, review content periodically and alert to data quality issues and drive to closure
• Act as conduit amongst Squad Leads and Project Managers, Technology Finance and the Governance & Business Management teams on all aspects of Program governance and administration
• Curate and ensure project documentation completeness and alignment to SDF, nWoW and Change Governance Policy.
• Report and escalate key risks and issues to management as needed

Skills and Experience
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Qualifications

• Exceptionally good in Finance and Accounting
• Exceptionally good in usage of tools such as MS Suite of applications (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), Sharepoint, Confluence, JIRA, ADO, Clarity (or equivalent BPM tool), vendor management tools, Procurement systems.
• Good to have knowledge on scripting in MS Excel
• Experience in Banking / Financial industry

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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