Lead, Subledger Program Management

Job ID: 30463

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Audit, Accounting & Finance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 12 Jun 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
The Subledger transformation Programme is an investment programme to transform Finance to a global target model. This involves investment to replace the infrastructure, and move to a more centralised, standardised and automated business model. This will enable faster processing, easier and more frequent access to information, at lower levels of cost.
The Subledger Program Management Lead in Singapore will:

- Establish the Program management and Governance framework, Financial management process, Communication strategy, Delivery and Vendor management strategies.
- Review, control, and report on financial status of the individual workstream to ensure it meets the allocated budget outlay and flag risk thereon.
- Manage plans, milestones and key risks of the overall programme as per the bank’s standards and workstream governance.
- Work with senior leadership to establish Subledger Centre of Excellence (CoE), evaluate opportunities to transition suitable roles to CoE enabling in cross pollination of skills & knowledge and resulting in lower program costs.
- Establish regular governance and oversight on vendor partners for delivery of Subledger transformation and new product development/enhancements.
- Lead the Subledger Business Integration team, that will be responsible for the development of change strategy & enablement platforms to ensure a successful SubLedger business/end user adoption.
- Ensure adequate reporting of milestones, risks to all key working groups including PgSC and QPRs.
- Liaison with central PMO, Finance teams, Audit on topics relating to software capitalisation and operational cost management.
- Establish a communication and reporting strategy to update stakeholders and senior leadership teams, programme office including the various Agile ceremonies such as refinement forum, PGSc, PWG, QPRs and ensure that Clarity system (or it’s equivalent) is up to date including key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues, and resource forecasts.
- Headcount management - support various squads in their headcount management needs for both FTE and Staff Augmentation.
- Establish rapport and strong relationships with key stakeholders across the Program and Senior Finance, Operations and Technology Leadership
- Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development for the delivery teams; ensure that teams are suitably skilled and qualified to perform their deliverables and develop cross functional skill set

**People & Talent**
- Manage ~3-5 staff directly and approx. 15-20 indirectly through project team structures for successful delivery of the program.
- Work with Delivery leads, Leadership Team, SMEs/business analysts across multiple locations to deliver the Aspire Subledger scope
- Establish strong relationships with GCFO leadership, COO, CIO Functions and ITO Functions
- Work with Delivery Leads to ensure alignment of resourcing strategy to ensure optimum allocation of project resources to each project based on skillet and objectives.
- Set and monitor job descriptions and goals for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and goals.

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 the team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**
- Senior Program/Project Managers across GCFO change, impacted downstream, Regional change champions.
- CIO, COO, Country CFOs and Process heads.
- T&I teams - including Development, Infrastructure streams
- Finance GPO team
- Product Vendor Teams
- Leads from internal and external programmes
- Head, Transformation Governance
- Portfolio PMO
- Transformation Management & Delivery Office
- Scrum Masters / Product Owners
- 12+ years of Experience in delivering Finance transformation projects.
- Has worked on process re-engineering, New product development and strategic projects of size of atleast ~20m USD.
- Should have experience in managing a team of atleast 5-6 senior resources.
- Should have worked with C-level executives and strong understanding of strategic thought leadership.
- Understanding of Subledger, Hadoop and BTP tools will be added advantage