Associate Director, Investor Relations Asia

JOB SUMMARY

The Project Delivery Director is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end delivery of strategic projects and programs, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. This individual will drive excellence in execution, manage cross-functional teams, and maintain stakeholder satisfaction while adhering to scope, timeline, and budget constraints. The role demands expertise in strategic planning, risk mitigation, resource optimization, and fostering collaboration across departments.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Responsible for WRB initiative delivery in HK. 
• Managing the Key Projects, ensuring compliance with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid frameworks.
• Monitor progress, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure quality standards
• Establish governance frameworks and best practices for consistency.

Business

• Accountable for driving continuous productivity improvement and testing automation / migration initiatives.
• Accountable for optimising value delivered from our investment in system changes.
• Accountable for the end-to-end delivery of system initiatives for WRB HK, i.e. from initiation, planning, execution, monitoring till closure.
• Supporting Group to implement system changes locally.

Processes

• Responsible for project management and testing processes.
• People & Talent 
• Responsible for maintaining sufficient capacity to deliver business initiatives for WRB HK.
• Accountable for the training of team members to fulfil their delivery roles.
• Responsible for the building bench strength and succession planning.

Risk Management

• Accountable for risk identification, assessment and mitigation in system and process changes through active collaboration with BRM, Operational Risk, Compliance, Technology Risk and Country Technology Management.
• Escalate critical issues to executives with actionable solutions.
• Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and security standards.

Governance 

• Responsible to comply with the group’s technology change delivery and project management policies. 

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.
• Lead the [team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Asia and Hong Kong WRB Business teams
• Hong Kong WRB & Regulatory Compliance
• Hong Kong & Group Operational Risk
• Country Technology Management, Hong Kong
• Group Technology & Innovation
• Hong Kong & Group COO functions

Other Responsibilities

• Participate in the Keystone project as WRB HK representative to ensure a smooth transition from Hogan to Atlas.

Qualification

• Certified Scrum Master / Product Owner (Preferred)

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Project & Program Management
• System Testing