Senior Technical Project Manager

Job Description

*About Standard Chartered We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. Its about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good. Were committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.The Role Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop a project management scope of work and detailed plan to deliver the required solutions
• Develop project documentation including scope of work, budget, timelines and acceptance criteria
• Provide status reporting to senior management against milestones & budget, including any issues or risks identified
• Engage and drive stakeholders to deliver to the project plan, within scope, on time and to budget
• Identify, mitigate and communicate key assumptions, issues, risks and dependencies to master projects & relevant control and governance committees.
• Document any identified required changes and communicate them to the relevant parties. Facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders. Ensure internal process, standards and risk compliance (including security, regulatory and audit requirements) are met
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Requirements management
• Stakeholder and communication management
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Pursue opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Work across multiple projects/ initiatives at the same time
• Managing the day-to-day running of the Project/Program and execution against the PMP.
• Mitigating and resolving risks and issues which may impair delivery.
• Ensuring Clarity is up to date including Project static data, status update including RAG status, key milestones, financials, risks, dependencies, issues and resource forecasts, and they are tracked & reported.
• Ensuring that all submissions to committees are of the right quality and are timely.
• Delivering the Project s products and processes into BAU.
• Implementing Project closure procedure.

Key Stakeholders

• TS MT
• TS and T&I PMO
• Business Operations

Our Ideal Candidate

• 15 years of experience in delivering major Infrastructure programs in the Banking industry, including accountability for IT solution delivery
• Stakeholder management experience working with senior level stakeholders to deliver change
• Proven experience with co-ordination of many dependencies and multiple demanding stakeholders in a complex, large-scale deployment environment
• Rigorous approach to management of project delivery methodology
• Proven skills in coordination, staff management and leadership working with vendors and internal teams
• Leadership skills to coach, co-ordinate and grow a successful delivery team
• Strong product knowledge of financial markets instruments and balance sheet products.
• Excellent oral, written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to manage a diverse and challenging stakeholder community
• Strong technologist, ability to problem solve, self-starter, basic infrastructure knowledge, ability to work under pressure
• Strong project management experience with the ability to work on multiple projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills which lend themselves to team-oriented approach and able to work effectively as part of a team and as an individual
• Ability to think clearly and to resolve critical problems in a high-pressure environment
• Strong MS Excel, Microsoft Office/ Project skills
• Good in influencing skill
• Solid organisational skills including attention to detail and multitasking ability
• PMP/Scrum Certification preferable.

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions. To view information on our benefits including our flexible working please visit our career pages . We welcome conversations on flexible working.,

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