JOB SUMMARY

Act as the Country Project Manager (PM) for Aspire, responsible for coordinating, facilitating, and ensuring the successful local implementation of Aspire-related initiatives.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

Awareness and understanding of the Group's Aspire project and model appropriate to the role.

Business 
Project Coordination & Delivery
Coordinate and support Aspire related projects, including
•    Onboarding TP systems to the Subledger (e.g. Credit Card, FX Options)
•    Adoption of Local downstream reporting for Aspire 
•    MCA (Multi-Currency Accounting) project for Spot position revaluation and sweep.

Processes 
1. Cross-Functional stakeholder Management
     Facilitate effective communication and alignment between Country teams (including Finance, IT, Operations, and Risk) and the Aspire Project team.
2. Testing & Go-live Readiness
     Coordinate all preparations and parallel run testing to support PSGL decommissioning, including OBU   ledger enhancement.
3. Ongoing Project Engagement
•    Participate in all regular and ad-hoc meeting and activities related to Aspire.

People & Talent
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management
•    The ability to interpret the information from stakeholders , identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance  
•    Responsible for tracking and monitoring project progress, milestones, and key deliverables to ensure timely execution.
•    Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the accounting system implementation projects.

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.

Key Stakeholders

•    Finance, IT, Operations, Risk and the Aspire Project team.

Qualification
•    Education: Bachelor’s degree
•    Languages: Native in Mandarin and English Proficiency with strong command of the English language, both written and spoken, to effectively communicate with stakeholders

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•   Project Coordination and Project Management skill

•   Preferrable with banking industry experience

•   Ideally 5+ years’ experience in financial industry

•   With banking product know-how (ie credit card, FX, options…) will be a plus

•   Soft Skills on the following dimensions:  Action Oriented, Collaborates, Customer Focus, Courage

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.