Job ID: 31568
Location: New York, US
Area of interest: Corporate & Commercial Banking
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style:
Opening date: 6 Jun 2025

JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking a Business Planning Manager to join our team at Standard Chartered Bank in New York. We are looking for an individual who is self-directed and proactive in providing support to the US & Americas CEO in all aspects of running the Americas franchise and take on all necessary tasks as allocated by the CEO and global CIB Chief of Staff team.
This position is responsible for providing a key point of contact for any matters relating to the Americas for stakeholders across the Group. Furthermore, you will be operating with a high degree of trust and confidentiality with the CEO and all members of the US Management Team as necessary.
We appreciate self-driven candidates who have experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, Risk, Management, Governance, leading Strategic Projects and working closely with senior stakeholders across the organization. We believe that a willingness to acquire new skills will contribute to success in this role.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of Corporate and Investment Banking, ideally within the realms of Communications, Consulting, Project or Program Management, Marketing, or Branding.
• Experience in risk transformation or regulatory change, especially in Corporate and Investment Banking.
• Understanding of risk management, governance, project management and strategy.
• Effective communication ownership and writing skills as well as advanced presentation skills using Power Point.
• Experience in managing senior stakeholders including boards and management teams.
• Project management experience.
• Self-driven who can work closely with a group of senior stakeholders and can multi-task.
• Experience in representing senior stakeholders as their delegate.
• Relationship management with third-parties such as clients, vendors or business associations is beneficial.
• Knowledge of the Americas region which includes Latin America.
• Experience in managing people directly and indirectly.

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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Take the lead in developing and driving the delivery of an integrated strategy for all businesses in the Americas.
• Support the CEO to drive the development and execution of overall country and cluster strategy and direction, ensure alignment with the Region as well as the Group.
• Provide direct support to the CEO and the Management Team in developing and implementing an effective country plan that supports operational resilience and the delivery of strategies in the country, including people, premises, technology and behaviours. Ensure that the country plan is aligned with the country’s short, medium and longer-term aspirations to deliver the global CIB strategy.
• Support strategic and corporate development discussions involving the country and overseeing all corporate development within the country.
• Work with the CEO and the Management Team to review and approve the country strategy, ensuring that the country strategy is delivering the global business strategies of CIB and is in line with the country risk appetite.
• Drive delivery of the country priorities and strategy and the country plan, country scorecards, overall budget, financial and other performance targets
• Facilitate an integrated “One Bank” approach across the business and support functions.
• Ensure the country infrastructure is in place to support the business growth (people, facilities, technology and processes), working with the CEO to recommend resource allocation.
• Ensure appropriate prioritisation of issues around risk, control, investment, people, projects and change management within the country.
• Support SC Ventures activities in the cluster.
• Manage all Business Associations in the cluster in collaboration with CABM and GPRA.
• Follow up on matters and issues on behalf of the CEO; manage closure of action items; ensure no overdue action items.
• Act as a prime contact point and coordinator for initiatives.
• Respond and proactively address issues as they arise, without the need to refer to the CEO.
• Own all CEO office processes, including those related to the role of Crisis Management Co-ordinator, OCIR Country Co-ordinator, strategy and overall governance of the business.

DAY-TO-DAY TASKS

• Drive strategic projects where the CEO is the senior sponsor.
• Be the CEO’s delegate on multiple forums and for activities.
• Support the CEO in building an maintaining an effective management team.
• Where relevant, support in the development of succession plans that identify gaps in bench-strength, subsequently implementing action plans to ensure ready-now talent is available.
• Drive an environment of collaboration, both within the team and across the wider Group, to ensure issues are raised and blockages are resolved in a timely manner.
• Reviewing structure/capacity plans based on the nature, scale, or complexity of the CIB.
• Represent the CEO on the Country D&I Council.
• Play a leading role in setting an appropriate risk management culture across the Americas cluster. Participate in all Country Risk Governance meetings and assist the CEO in providing oversight of all risk matters in country, working alongside the risk owners to drive resolution of any material shortcomings.
• Work with MT members and other key stakeholders (Country/Region/Group) to reinforce an effective control environment and assist in resolving material country issues that are cross-business and/or cross-functional in nature.
• Provide challenge, counsel a sounding-board to the CEO in directing the overall Americas franchise.
• Ensure that the highest standards of governance are adopted across each of the Bank’s operations in the Americas and co-ordinate with the MT to ensure consistent practices are adopted across businesses where appropriate. Implement and maintain structures to support effective corporate governance in the country.
• Oversee the governance of projects and strategic and governance initiatives impacting the country; holding the business and infrastructure teams accountable for project delivery and ensuring alignment to Group standards; challenging the Group and Region when necessary.
• Take responsibility for setting the Americas MT agenda and driving effective discussions and outcomes through the MT. Ensure the effectiveness of the MT and that all governance is adhered to (minutes, agenda and attendance).
• Take ownership for the fulfilment of all committee updates, management updates and reports from the Americas to Group stakeholders, including to Group Committees, Board updates and Regional meetings.
• Understand and balance, the Group’s objectives and the expectations of both the home (FCA/PRA) and host regulators in the Americas.