Principal Consultant, Sr. Finance PMO-ITO082227

About this role

• Responsible for ensuring project managers and stakeholders are supported to manage and understand their financial and headcount plans through effective partnering, tracking, and reporting. Responsible for maintaining processes and procedures to foster transparency and confidence in the financials from HR Transformation; a subject matter expert able to support and educate project managers and stakeholders in understanding the impact of decisions made in relation to the financial landscape.
• Prepare financial reporting for monthly, quarterly, and annual cycles, including materials for Refinement Forum / Programme Monthly Reviews and data for HR Quarterly Performance Reviews and Monthly Performance Reviews
• Respond to ad hoc financial and headcount queries from stakeholders including Programme Managers, Project Managers, BPMs and Product Owners
• Contribute to annual Corporate Plan budgeting cycle and ensure appropriate due diligence in submissions.
• Challenge financial plans within the HR Transformation, including Refinement Forum / Hive / Programme and Initiative level roadmap assumptions, resource plans and vendor costs.
• Track, manage and report headcount and resourcing demand for HR Transformation
• Detailed review of initiative forecasts and analysis of issues and trends
• Run finance operation processes such as accruals and recharge / reclass submission, support headcount and resource management, manage Business Cost Upload process and update cost centres.
• Respond to financial control queries on balance sheet items and substantiation.
• Maintain financial information on Confluence / SharePoint / MS Teams
• Evaluate value generated with each HR investment to ensure optimal use of Standard Chartered Bank’s financial resources.
• Other financial and headcount tasks required on an ad hoc basis.
• Maintain benefits tracking and realisation processes and template for HR function.
• Work closely with Finance to ensure correct treatment of HR Transformation costs.
• Discipline & Follow-up tenacity.
• Analytical and Problem Solving
• Excellent Written & Spoken English
• Stakeholder Management – possess the ability to work with and direct Stakeholders across a range of functions and seniority levels
• Understand Project Lifecycles and Scope Management
• Able to interpret and analyze Project outputs (Schedules, Financials & Benefits)
• High levels of personal accountability and proactive initiative taking, together with a pragmatic, customer-focused approach
• Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation with an ability to engage and support a variety of stakeholder levels including senior management
• Outcome focused with excellent problem-solving abilities whilst exercising good judgment.
• Ability to prioritize an extensive and complex set of issues, seeing the ‘big picture’ and thinking conceptually, whilst simultaneously having very close attention to detail
  
  

• Professional Financial Qualification (beneficial, but not essential)
• Project management Qualification, esp. Agile (beneficial, but not essential)
  
  

• Ability to communicate complex information to stakeholders, internal resources, vendors/suppliers/consultants, and partners at all organizational levels.
• Strong customer service and teamwork skills. Professional demeanor to maintain and enhance relationships.
• High independence to deliver allocated activities.
• Have worked in an international, dynamic organization.
• A proven track record of successful delivery of activities allocated.
• Advanced/Expert MS Excel skills
• Good MS Office Suite Skills including SharePoint.
• A great communicator with advanced English (written and spoken) language skills.
• Ability to work well in a high-pressure environment.