Senior Capital Program Manager - Singapore - Standard Chartered

Standard Chartered

Verified Company

Singapore

1 week ago

Posted by:

Wei Jie

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Description

Job:
Finance

Primary Location:
Asia-Singapore-Singapore

Schedule:
Full-time

Employee Status:
Permanent

Posting Date: 20/Jan/2023, 5:35:49 AM

Unposting Date: 03/Feb/2023, 5:59:00 PM

The Role Responsibilities

Programme "Aspire" is a multiyear strategic investment programme to transform Finance GCFO into a modern, globally consistent organisation with skills, capabilities and jobs that match competitor banks. 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 programme is responsible to develop and implement the Finance GCFO strategy to deliver the GCFO Change agenda and ASPIRE programme (> $400m investment) into the bank and ensure the target business benefits (>$150m/yr.) are realised.
The Aspire infrastructure will result in a cloudbased single instance general ledger and a detailed, granular data store. This will enable faster monthly close and daily reporting, centralised regulatory reporting capability, selfservice MIS, and automated controls.
The Capital Journey lead has overall responsibility for delivery of Technology and Change across the Group and Countries for Regulatory Capital workstreams.

The core of Aspire requires a modern technology infrastructure and data capability:

SAP has been selected for; the Finance data store (FSDP), Finance SubLedger (FSPL), General Ledger (S/4 HANA), and for Supply Chain (Ariba).
Moody's Analytics has been selected for, MA Risk Authority for Regulatory Capital calculations, and MA Risk Confidence for Intraday Liquidity.

Responsibilities across Technology and Change
Overarching areas of responsibility include stakeholder management, forward planning, resource management and allocation, Hive alignment and responsibility of Capital Technology and Change COE teams, responding to regulatory queries

Specifically:

Lead the strategic development, direction, planning and execution of the programme including line management of Senior Managers across Technology and Change.
Ensuring all resources are effectively managed and allocated, teams have effective business alignment, effective support processes are in place, risks and costs are appropriately managed.
Working as primary contact person who will interface with senior management and business stakeholders for all Regulatory Capital related engagements including representing the Capital Journey at Refinement Forum and other governance meetings.
Ensuring a close working relationship and alignment between the Technology and Change teams and a close working relationship and alignment with the India COE teams to achieve seamless delivery across Change and Technology within the Hive structure agnostic of where resources are physically located.
Manage, develop and sustain effective working relationship with the multiple stakeholders upstream and downstream of the Finance Capital Function.
Providing guidance and leadership to enforce defined standard governance practices around incident / problem management processes, change control processes, and minor enhancement requests.
Proactively handling problems and making decisions based on the understanding of critical issues and priorities including facilitating issue resolution.
Creation of a harmonious working environment, mínimalizing impact of churn on the ongoing operational performance, ensuring adequate skilled resources are available to deliver the various workstream plans.
Proficiency in workforce management practises: Supporting resource growth, capacity planning, attrition management so that the deliverables are met.
Training and development: identifying needs and issues, defining interventions with L&D specialists, evaluating outcomes and cross training the resources.
Provide direct support and coaching to all levels of managers and supervisors throughout the Capital Journey.
Ensure group standards are maintained with the correct level of due diligence and control considered as part of programme documentation.
Ensure delivery of BCBS239 requirements is embedded into all workstreams.
Help support standardisation across different Aspire Group Programmes, connecting with other key initiatives.

Technology Responsibilities

Capital is run as an integrated Hive model with Technology and the role requires strong leadership and partnership with the Technology function.

Focus areas include delivery of specific Hive workstreams, governance, stakeholder management, forward planning, resource management and allocation, matrixed alignment and responsibility of the Capital Tech COE, responding to regulatory queries

Specifically:

Drive industrialisation of the platform by working with vendors to adopt latest tools and best practices including managing obsolescence and adoption of cloud solutions.