Senior Project Manager in London

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• 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)
• Budgeting, Forecasting & Cost Optimisation

Financial Reporting & Regulatory Change

• Financial & Regulatory Reporting Transformation
• Finance Target Operating Model Design

Strategic Transformation & Change

• 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
• ERP & Finance Systems (SAP, Oracle)
• 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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Project Management

• Industries

  Banking and Investment Banking

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