Program Lead, OCIR

Roles & Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

• The purpose of the role is to manage and support Lead, OCIR & Strategic Regulatory Programs on key deliverables arising from s166 actions and testing (Day 2 Book of Work) and from the bottoms up review planned for 2025 on the capabilities and processes to support resolution and restructuring planning.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

· Manages the project / change using the Group’s methodology and successfully delivers the scope with a disciplined approach to change control and agreed timelines.

· Responsible for managing the deliveries of various workstreams within the program, working closely with the stakeholders.

· Ensures scope, approach, timelines, and other key aspects of the workstream/program are documented.

· Ensures Lead, OCIR & Strategic Regulatory Programs and Head OCIR, are made aware of any material risks, issues, cost, benefit, and scope changes in the workstream to be able to report to the relevant Governance Committees.

· Provides inputs to create financial baselines and track cost actuals in a detailed budget document for submission to PMO and Finance monthly.

· Assists and provides inputs to manage project expenditure against budget as agreed in the project business case and project definition document or approval request.

· Provides inputs and participates in relevant Governance Committees

Business

· With the support from Lead, OCIR and Strategic Regulatory Programs, manages conflicts in stakeholder expectations and alignment across multiple workstreams.

· Understands risks and challenges when facilitating decision making for the desired outcomes

· Presents clear options and recommendations, facilitates decision making and enables clear understanding in key stakeholders of risks, outcomes and trade-offs.

· Regularly elicit feedback and share lessons learnt to incorporate best practice in a timely manner with stakeholders

· Mitigate the overall delivery risk for the Programme by working closely with stakeholders

· Support reporting, communications and engagements to ensure Bank meets regulatory expectations

· Drive appropriate communication to the stakeholders to ensure progress, risks and issues are communicated in a timely manner

Processes

· Ensures the Requirements Traceability Matrix is set up and maintained.

· Manages project governance through delivery of work and relevant Governance forums

People & Talent

· Demonstrate and act as a role model of the Group’s values and culture in the region

· Lead and support a change in mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement

· Promotes a culture of openness, trust, and risk awareness, where ethical, legal, regulatory and policy compliant conduct is the norm.

· Be a self-starter who is able to initiate and successfully drive programmes and projects to completion with little management supervision

Risk Management

· Works with various program leads to manage & track risks, issues, impediments throughout the project and to follow up through its resolution.

· When required appropriately escalates impediments and blockers to the relevant Governance Forums and ensures ownership by committee members for the mitigating actions.

· Prepares good quality materials for governance meetings, as required

Governance

· When required appropriately escalates impediments and blockers to the Program, Head OCIR and relevant Governance Forums and ensures ownership for the mitigating actions.

· Responsible for the delivery of governance reports as required

​​​​​​​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.

· Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

· Global Head Resilience

· Head, OCIR

· Action Group Leads from businesses and functions

· Recovery and Resolution Planning

· Business stakeholders

· Functional Partners including Operations, T&I, Risk, Compliance, HR, Finance, Legal, Audit, etc.

Our Ideal Candidate

· 8+ years’ experience in driving and leading streams within the program “Uplifting Restructuring Capabilities”

· Ensures escalation and communication of any material risks, issues, cost, benefit, and scope changes in the workstream to be able to report to the relevant Governance Committees.

· Support / Run Governance forums for managing the outcomes and delivery risks for the program

· Be a self-starter who is able to initiate and successfully drive programmes and projects to completion with little management supervision

Role Specific Technical Competencies

· Understanding bank’s organisation structure, products and policies

· Stakeholder Engagement

· Project Management

· Communication

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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