Associate, Group Strategy

Standard Chartered; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution in Singapore is seeking a strategic Associate to engage with top management and help shape key initiatives. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of consulting experience, with a strong background in banking and project management. This role offers a chance to influence major strategic directions while working in a diverse, collaborative environment. A competitive salary and benefits align with our Fair Pay Charter.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Inclusive and diverse workplace

Qualifications

• Experience in change management and strategy projects.
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work in diverse and unstructured environments.

Responsibilities

• Support strategy projects and manage project analyses.
• Contribute to team initiatives and adhere to risk management.
• Drive project outcomes and engage with various stakeholders.

Skills

Banking consulting experience

Emerging markets knowledge

Strong project management background

Effective communications

Business analytics

Education

3+ years of working experience in a strategic consulting setup

Job description

Requisition Number: 43655

Job Location: Singapore, SGP

Work Type: Office Working

Employment Type: Permanent

Posting Start Date: 12/01/2026

Posting End Date: 26/01/2026

JOB SUMMARY

This role could be based in Singapore or Hong Kong. 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. In this role, you will:

• Be involved in intensive, project based and diversified strategy work, guided by Associate Directors and Directors in the team
• Take ownership of pieces of projects, designing and conducting analyses, doing secondary research, synthesising conclusions, making presentations
• Take an active role in identifying key issues, problem solving, structuring work plans, and forming hypotheses
• Contribute to team initiatives

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

As an Associate 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 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 & 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 & 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, elevate, 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

The ideal skill set would combine financial services knowledge with a ‘consulting toolkit’ and 3+ years of working experience in a strategic consulting setup.

• Banking consulting experience with a top tier firm and/or with strategy functions of leading banks
• 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
• Strong project management background or prior experience as an engagement manager in a Bank

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.

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