Job ID: 37713
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Corporate Strategy
Job type: Regular Employee
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 21 Aug 2025

JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Singapore and UK. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, Please ensure that you select a country where the role is based. We are seeking a talented and passionate, Senior Programme Manager to join the Control Simplification Programme
The Control Simplification initiative focuses on developing comprehensive control standards across the bank, updating our control library and is focused on eliminating and streamlining existing controls to enhance the bank’s risk and control capabilities. The programme includes redefining the assurance operating model, automating controls at the source where appropriate, and implementing automated control testing to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in risk management processes.
The role holder will be responsible for manage the Control Transformation workstream in the programme. This is a large and complex workstream which requires the individual to lead delivery globally and pan bank and ensure we have strong delivery and governance. The role holder will work with the Programme Director, leading the financial management, planning and governance for this critical workstream.

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

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Programme Management
• Communication Skills
• Understanding of Risk, Control & Assurance
• Change execution
• Process and Control Simplification
• Automation execution

4. Eliminate Duplicative Roles and Streamline Assurance Activities

• Identify and remove duplicative roles and responsibilities between lines 1 and 2.
• Streamline assurance processes to reduce redundancy and increase efficiency.
• Implement changes to enhance the overall effectiveness of assurance activities