Senior Project Manager

Client: world-leading investment bank

Pay rate: negotiable

Duration: 6 months with likely extension

Work type: hybrid (3 days in the office)

The role of Senior Project Manager is within the banks wider ‘Fit for Growth’ programme, supporting Financial Control on their wider initiatives to help realise the committed benefits and efficiencies of the overall bank strategy.

The Bank's Fit for Growth" is a three-year plan to reduce costs and improve efficiency, aiming to save around $1.5 billion over the next three years by streamlining operations and digitizing systems.

The ideal candidate should be very strategic and delivery-focused with a strong history of leading financial reporting change and transformation projects within the global banking environments with proven success in driving cost-effective process enhancements, embedding regulatory compliance, and improving reporting accuracy and transparency.

The candidate must be skilled in partnering with senior leadership to deliver change initiatives that unlock value, enhance operational efficiency, and support long-term strategic goals. Excellent communication and presentation skills are essential to help enabling stakeholder buy-in, cross-functional collaboration, and successful change adoption.

• Project & Program Management
• End-to-End Project Delivery (Agile/Waterfall/Hybrid)
• Portfolio & Program Governance (PMO)
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Cost Optimisation
• Financial Reporting & Regulatory Change
• Financial & Regulatory Reporting Transformation
• Data Quality, Reconciliation & Control Frameworks
• Finance Target Operating Model Design
• Strategic Transformation & Change
• Fit-for-Growth Strategy Execution
• Business Process Reengineering
• Cost Efficiency & Operational Excellence
• Change Management & User Adoption
• Stakeholder & Communication Management
• Senior Stakeholder & Executive Engagement
• Board-Level Reporting & Presentations
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Excellent Written & Verbal Communication
• Technology & Tools

ERP & Finance Systems (SAP, Oracle)

Data Visualization (SAC, Workiva, Power BI, Tableau)

Project Tools (JIRA, MS Project, Confluence)

MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)

Key Stakeholders

• Finance Controllership Management Team
• Global Process Leader for Finance Controllers
• Finance Operations and Transformation Management Team
• Country, Region, and Segment CFOs
• Finance Technology team
• Regulatory and 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.

Required: Master’s degree with Charted Accountant/MBA with 10+ years of experience working within financial services. Expert level domain experience/Subject Matter Expertise in Finance, Sub-ledger, General Ledger, Controllership, Accounting and Reporting. Prior experience in delivery of ERP implementations and managing both process and technology changes. Prior change management experience in the Banking Finance domain. PMP® (Project Management Professional) / PRINCE2® Practitioner /Agile/ Scrum Master certification