Job Description

Project description

Our client (leading investment bank) is investing significantly in digital transformation to improve our productivity, client and employee experience and creating capacity to reinvest in incremental growth activities. The Digital Channel Solutions Business is part of Transaction Banking supporting digital channels and data solutions for Corporate, Institutional and SME Clients.

The Project Manager reports to the Senior Product Lead in India and has a matrix reporting line to Head, Straight2Bank Access. This role will be working closely with the Chief Product Owners, Product Owners, Hive Delivery Leads and Risk teams to ensure timely and effective delivery of a Data Quality Risk Remediation initiative. This initiative is key to meeting the Bank's regulatory commitments. The Project Manager will play a pivotal role in managing the full project lifecycle, ensuring delivery aligns with both regulatory obligations and strategic business priorities.

Responsibilities

Project Management and Governance


Manage the full project lifecycle of the project and coordinate with all relevant stakeholders across business and technology (as well as relevant support functions) ensuring milestones are met


Partner with relevant stakeholders, to ensure adherence to Bank standards and governance framework


Develop and maintain comprehensive project artefacts including Project plans, RAID logs, Delivery plans and general updates to stakeholders


Prepare materials and facilitate the weekly meetings including Working Group and Steerco meetings, ensuring timeliness, accuracy and relevance of data


Identify and proactively manage project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating as required


Coordinate with risk and issue owners to regularly reassess residual risks and mitigation plans


Ensure Clarity (the Enterprise tool for program/project monitoring and reporting) is up to date including RAG status, key milestones, financials, risks, issues


Encourage and enforce high standards of quality, accuracy and consistency in all project and programme logs, trackers and reporting materials.


Drive formal handover to BAU including the formal programme closure when required


Financial Management


Collaborate with PMO and other relevant teams to ensure accurate project forecasting and actuals


Track and validate recharges, third party spend and internal resource allocations


Support financial governance by ensuring variances are monitored and reported


Support the Project Initiative owner in meeting the programme's financial commitments in each year and over the life of the programme.


Stakeholder Management


Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with stakeholders across functions


Ensure regular and transparent communication of project progress, risks and key decisions


Engage stakeholders to align on priorities and resolve issues collaboratively


Drives team members toward delivering on their commitments


Effectively manage difficult interpersonal situations and drive consensus where needed


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.

Skills

Must have


10+ years of experience in Capital Market as Project Manager


Change Management Certifications: Prosci, Kotter, ADKAR etc


Project management: SAFe, Agile, Waterfall, PMP, PRINCE2 etc


Tools: Clarity, ADO, Confluence, ServiceNow


Ability to manage geographically dispersed and highly varied client and stakeholder base


Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision taking


Analytic, problem-solving and decision-making skills


Good presentation, time management, negotiation and influencing skills


Excellent written & oral communication skills


Can work independently to strict timeframes


Focused, organised and results-oriented


Experience of working with senior stakeholders. Ability to influence senior staff and offshore shared services teams and drive change agenda


Assertive, tenacious, and willing to challenge when required


Ability to interpret regulatory commitments and risk action plans


Demonstrates good technical and/or business understanding to manage project effectively


Nice to have


Exposure to risk-related initiatives is a plus

Other

Languages


English: C2 Proficient


Seniority


Senior



Bengaluru, India


Req. VR-115928


Technical Project Management


BCM Industry


10/08/2025


Req. VR-115928