Hiring for Backlog Manager at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class transaction banking products to meet clients and business needs globally. This role manages the product development portfolio for our Cash Management Product Platforms and also looks into ongoing enhancements and development of the platform.
• In this role the person acts as portfolio support, responsible for governance, backlog management and strategic reporting in partnership with Global, Regional & Local Product Managers, Global Service & Client Implementation Teams, Global Technology and Operations.

Responsible for Portfolio governance:

• Derive meaningful insights for management on open backlog, commitment quarter on quarter and delivery predictability post BRP confirmation
• Work with our Portfolio Manager to build strong governance on ADO within Cash
• Analyse, evaluate, and report portfolio level impediments for management and stakeholders
• Create transparency around cash change management process, backlog progress, blockers, impediments, dependencies, and product value delivery
• Generating comprehensive reports to support different views for programs, regions, type of product to create transparency of resource allocation

Responsible for cash change process

• Serves as a subject matter expert (SME) within the Cash on the change process to support correct processes and support creation of relevant guidelines to improve adoption
• Partner to deliver new capabilities and tools to increase adoption of change process, simplify governance processes and provide end to end transparency on investment allocation
• Ensure clear requirements for new products and platforms or for enhancements to existing products and processes before being presented in LuW Approval Forum
• Maintaining a transparent backlog using project management tools to ensure everyone has access to the latest information.
• Ensuring adequate training and knowledge transfer to in-country users

Support process for resource allocation

• Collaborate with technology to provide a consolidate view of squads’ assignment to backlog aligned with strategic business goals
• Optimizing resource allocation across different projects within the portfolio.
• Managing project dependencies and coordinating between different teams.
• Identifying and highlighting resource constraints
• Tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of hive and squad productivity

Stakeholder Management

• Building strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization
• Maintain regular connect and engagement with key stakeholders periodically
• Facilitating communication and collaboration between different teams involved in transformation projects.
• Addressing stakeholder concerns and managing expectations

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.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Cash Product Development Team with Transaction Banking, India

Skills and Experience

• Project Management
• Payments

Qualifications

• Degree in Business or equivalent disciplines. Degree in Information Technology is an advantage.
• Prior experience on Payments Product is a plus.
• Good knowledge of global cash management practices
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft office – Excel, PowerPoint and reporting tools like Tableau
• Strong Product management, Project management, and analytical problem-solving skills and use of relevant tools
• Ability to work to tight timelines and at the same time produces a quality deliverable
• Ability to engage stakeholders within business, operations and technology.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and writing skills
• 8+ years of banking experience

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 an opportunity 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 market standard 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.

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