Senior Financial PMO

Job ID: 43464

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 18 Nov 2025

Job Summary

• The FM Business Planning and Strategy team requires a financial PMO to support the management of a large investment portfolio. The successful candidate will be a Financial PMO Analyst with an educational background in Business Administration, majoring in either IT Management or Finance in addition, complemented by consulting experience, preferably in management consulting. He or she will be a trusted advisor to our initiative leads and scrum masters and enable them to "Do the Right Thing", maintaining strong financial and process governance across the portfolio. In addition, the incumbent has a keen interest in Financial Markets and new emerging technologies, which will help them to grow in the bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Support initiative owners by managing project financials holistically in accordance to financial accounting principles (e.g. Capex and opex costs, accruals etc.)
• Facilitate the fulfillment of ad hoc requests from key stakeholders pertaining to management reporting
• Perform regular program/project report consolidation and submission
• Support Refinement Forums/PgSCs with the necessary segment data for reporting
• Analyse trends, highlight issues and work with relevant stakeholders to resolve issues
• Tracking and reporting of project milestones, risks and issues and project artefacts and ensure these are managed in line with SCB's policies
• Ensure control around vendor engagements (SOWs, Sourcing/Engagement requests, supplier management processes and controls)
• Manage headcount approvals, accurately track and report staff headcount by different employment categories and maintain effective communication with MTs on the headcount approval progress
• Collaborate in the implementation of FM transformation initiatives
• Produce monthly management reports by consolidating project achievements and concerns

Business

• Responsible for ensuring project financials are governed according to the Bank's accounting principles e.g. Opex, Capex, Accruals etc.

Processes

• Responsible for ensuring projects follow ECM's project management controls & guidelines (GRAM, ORO etc.)

People & Talent

• Not applicable to the role

Risk Management

• The ability to interpret projects/programmes financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.

Governance

• Awareness and understanding of the Bank's project/programme governance framework

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

• CIO, Financial Markets
• Relevant project/programme managers
• FM Portfolio management

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's Degree In Business or a related field (Economics, It Management)

Languages

• English

Skills and Experience

• Microsoft Excel
• Clarity or other project financials management system
• Accounting principles
• Dashboard and report building

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.