Job Description

Job ID: 32504


Location: Chennai, IN


Area of interest: Technology


Job type: Regular Employee


Work style: Office Working


Opening date: 23 Jun 2025

Job Summary

This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large Cash programme management team that is distributed between Chennai, Singapore and Bangalore. The purpose of this position is to manage the Payments Team Projects from conception of ideas to the delivery of products and services. Focus will be on making sure all technical aspects of the project are running smoothly.

RESPONSIBILITIES

360-degree management of projects from start to finish Co-ordinating with several key project stakeholders both internal and external Co-ordinate project requirements with Product Management, Operations, Legal and Risk department, and other departments as necessary Report on completed actions, achievements & productivity of projects. Quality management of the project and its deliverables.

Strategy

Work with Product Owner and Delivery team to manage and track the delivery of Cash projects.

Business

Experience of working in the technology function of Cash and Payments.

Processes

Experienced in driving the delivery of complex software delivery projects in an agile environment. Perform risk and change management activities. An experienced Project Manager (preferably PMP certified) which experience of delivering projects including planning, resource allocation, financial management and project governance. Experienced in setting up and maintaining JIRA and Confluence tools to facilitate effective Agile Project Management. Experienced in creating and maintaining Agile Metrics in JIRA to monitor a team's velocity and delivery progress. Experienced in proving clear and concise status updates. Experience of raising risks and issues and escalating to management at the earliest opportunity to ensure items are resolved in a timely manner.

People & Talent

Whilst there is no direct line management responsibility, this pivotal role is central to all interactions amongst squad team members, as well the engagement of the wider set of stakeholders across the business and technology teams Hence excellent verbal and written communication skills are required. Inter-personal skills are a must to be able to work with people.

Key Responsibilities

Risk Management

Ability to identify, prioritise and manage risks and issues using a suitable framework

Governance

Ensure bank-wide software delivery methodologies are followed and help to collate the required information to pass various quality controls provided under Technical Delivery Assurance (TDA) and any other such like governance. Help to do release planning and coordinate with all stakeholders involved to provide a controlled handover to production.

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. Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

Country Heads, Product development team, Tech Hive Leads, Operations team

Other Responsibilities

Here for good and Group's brand and values in TB Cash team Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

Project Management

Payments domain knowledge

Risk management

Stakeholder management & Reporting

Project Planning and tracking

Qualifications

At least obtained a bachelor's degree, preferably in an IT related field.

15+ years' experience in an IT Project and Programme Management roles

Project Management certification training like PMP will be additional advantage.

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.
www.sc.com/careers