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.
• Structuring issue-based work plans, developing hypotheses, driving parts of strategy storyline.
• Taking ownership of work-streams or projects, designing and conducting analyses of internal and external data, doing secondary research, synthesising conclusions, making presentations.
• Engaging and discussing key business issues with business / functional stakeholders.
• Contributing to team initiatives.
Your level of responsibility will be determined by demonstrated skills and limited only by your ability and potential. You may have the opportunity to play an expanded leadership role on the team, growing into a more senior role after 2-3 years.
The Group Strategy team works on the most strategic topics for the Global Management Team and the Board, liaising closely with the business, functional and geographic leads. It is a 20+ member team spread across Singapore, Hong Kong and London comprising of Managing Directors, Senior Directors, Directors, Associate Directors and Associates with clearly defined roles and responsibilities. It is a truly fungible group, bringing together people from diverse backgrounds and experiences who can flex across topics, markets, and problem types. We work collaboratively, supporting one another, partnering closely with internal teams and senior stakeholders, while maintaining the independence needed to challenge thinking and shape clear, impactful decisions. It’s a place for curious, adaptable thinkers who want breadth, influence, and real ownership.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
• As an Associate Director within the team you will have the opportunity to help shape the strategic agenda of the Group, working closely with the most senior stakeholders in the bank. Our work is broad ranging; we help the Board and top management to understand key industry trends and their implications, and also work directly with the leadership teams in business segments, geographies and functions to define their strategic priorities and implementation plans.
Business
• The work is project based, and as an Associate Director you will work closely with the Directors / Managing Directors within the team owning key analyses / modules of a project.
Processes
• Contribute to strategy projects as part of a team with the guidance of a project manager and other senior team members
People and Talent
• Contribute to team and people initiatives
Risk Management
• Adhere to all relevant Group risk policies and guidelines
Governance
• Adhere to all relevant Group governance requirements and guidelines
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.
Key stakeholders
• Group MT, Group MT-1 to Group MT-3, across all businesses, functions and regions
Our Ideal Candidate
• 6+ years of experience in financial services with deep expertise in banking consulting
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Banking consulting experience with a top tier firm and/or with strategy functions of leading banks as Project Manager or Engagement Manager
• Emerging markets knowledge or experience preferred (especially in Asia, Africa or Middle East)
• Comfortable working in a relatively unstructured, project-based and multi-cultural environment
• Engage senior stakeholders across the bank on projects
Role Specific Technical Competencies
• Business Analytics
• Business Markets
• Effective Communications
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic
• Influence Through Expertise
• Financial Analysis
• Relationship Management
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.
Recruitment Assessments
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