Director - Portfolio Execution (Risk)

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered seeks a senior professional to provide independent oversight of portfolio health, execution risk and delivery outcomes across the transformation portfolio. You will aggregate project and programme risks into a cohesive portfolio-level view to enable strategic decision-making and timely intervention.

You will ensure alignment to Change Delivery Standards and within Execution Risk and Portfolio Health Dashboards, escalating material breaches and remediating them.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in change delivery, portfolio execution, governance, delivery assurance or risk oversight.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation portfolios and influencing senior transformation stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, execution risk, RAID management, controls and delivery reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio execution oversight approach and coordinate governance, reporting and assurance activities across the investment portfolio.
• Aggregate project and programme risks into a portfolio-level view, identifying systemic themes, material dependencies and potential impacts on strategic outcomes.
• Translate portfolio data into a clear risk narrative and decision-ready insight for senior management, Board, Risk and Audit forums.
• Partner with Investment Portfolio Execution leadership, transformation teams and business and functional partners to improve delivery confidence and outcomes.
• Own the maintenance and continuous enhancement of Change Delivery Standards, execution-risk frameworks, governance requirements and controls.
• Ensure Change Delivery Standards, the Execution Risk Dashboard and Portfolio Health Dashboard remain current, relevant and actionable.
• Oversee compliance with framework requirements and promote consistent, proportionate application across transformation portfolios.
• Regularly review project risk-management methodologies against industry developments, regulatory change and emerging risks.
• Set the approach for portfolio-level execution-risk assessment and maintain oversight of material execution, governance and regulatory risks.

Skills

Portfolio Governance

Portfolio Risk & Assurance

Change Delivery Standards

Tools

Clarity

Azure DevOps

Job description

• Provide independent oversight of portfolio health, execution risk and delivery outcomes across the transformation portfolio.
• Drive the aggregation of project and programme risks into a cohesive portfolio-level view that enables strategic decision-making and timely intervention.
• Ensure the portfolio remains aligned to Change Delivery Standards and within agreed Execution Risk Dashboard and Portfolio Health Dashboard tolerances, with material breaches escalated and remediated.

Job Summary

• Provide independent oversight of portfolio health, execution risk and delivery outcomes across the transformation portfolio.
• Drive the aggregation of project and programme risks into a cohesive portfolio-level view that enables strategic decision-making and timely intervention.
• Ensure the portfolio remains aligned to Change Delivery Standards and within agreed Execution Risk Dashboard and Portfolio Health Dashboard tolerances, with material breaches escalated and remediated.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the portfolio execution oversight approach and coordinate governance, reporting and assurance activities across the investment portfolio.
• Aggregate project and programme risks into a portfolio-level view, identifying systemic themes, material dependencies and potential impacts on strategic outcomes.
• Translate portfolio data into a clear risk narrative and decision-ready insight for senior management, Board, Risk and Audit forums.
• Partner with Investment Portfolio Execution leadership, transformation teams and business and functional partners to improve delivery confidence and outcomes.
• Own the maintenance and continuous enhancement of Change Delivery Standards, execution-risk frameworks, governance requirements and controls.
• Ensure Change Delivery Standards, the Execution Risk Dashboard and Portfolio Health Dashboard remain current, relevant and actionable.
• Oversee compliance with framework requirements and promote consistent, proportionate application across transformation portfolios.
• Regularly review project risk-management methodologies against industry developments, regulatory change and emerging risks.
• Set the approach for portfolio-level execution-risk assessment and maintain oversight of material execution, governance and regulatory risks.
• Monitor delivery against agreed tolerances and escalate breaches, systemic concerns and control weaknesses based on impact and urgency.
• Drive remedial action for material execution risks and dependencies, with clear ownership, milestones and evidence of risk reduction.
• Constructively challenge recovery plans and unsupported delivery assumptions with Transformation Leads, Accountable Executives and Programme Managers.
• Partner with second- and third-line stakeholders on delivery concerns, information requests and assurance activity.
• Prepare concise, evidence-based materials for senior governance forums, highlighting strategic implications, decisions, risks, dependencies and required actions.
• Lead or support Board, Risk, Audit and regulatory responses on portfolio execution, governance and remediation.
• Coordinate engagement with Risk and Financial Crime Risk, Group Internal Audit and second- and third-line teams.
• Escalate systemic or high-impact concerns and provide transparent reporting on mitigation effectiveness and residual exposure.
• Champion the Group’s values and culture, setting clear expectations and working collaboratively with risk and control partners.
• Build a culture of client centricity, agility and accountability through standardised metrics, transparent performance expectations and timely feedback.
• Create a motivating and appropriately challenging environment that supports creativity, performance and ownership of client outcomes.
• Set effective standards for the team, recognise contribution and address performance or conduct concerns promptly and fairly.
• Promote adherence to Group Security, Risk and Audit policies and maintain effective delivery-governance controls.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for maintaining the highest standards of ethics and contributing to the outcomes in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
• Identify, escape, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters promptly and transparently.

Motivation

• Energised by bringing structure and evidence to complex delivery risks and portfolio dependencies.
• Motivated by improving governance discipline and helping senior stakeholders make well-informed delivery decisions.
• Comfortable working across ambiguity, constructively challenging delivery concerns and coordinating practical remediation.

Skills And Experience

Must-have Skills

• Portfolio Governance
• Portfolio Risk and Assurance
• Change Delivery Standards

Other Skills

• Portfolio Management and Analytics
• Project and Programme Management
• Change Management
• Financial and Commercial Acumen

Key Experiences

• Strong experience in change delivery, portfolio execution, governance, delivery assurance or risk oversight.
• Experience supporting large-scale transformation portfolios and influencing senior transformation stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, execution risk, RAID management, controls and delivery reporting.
• Ability to aggregate complex risk information and translate portfolio analytics into clear strategic insight and action.
• Experience using Clarity and/or Azure DevOps and working across Waterfall and Agile delivery methods.
• Strong analytical, communication, prioritisation, judgement and stakeholder-management skills.

Certifications / Qualifications

• No mandatory certification required. Relevant experience in portfolio management, programme delivery, transformation, risk or assurance is more important than a specific qualification.
• Recognised portfolio, programme, project or risk-management qualifications are beneficial.

Language

• Strong written and spoken English required.
• Additional languages are beneficial where relevant to global stakeholder coverage, but are not mandatory.

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.

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