Assistant Project Manager, Project Delivery

Job Summary

The Assistant Project Manager supports the delivery of business and technology change initiatives across credit cards, deposits, digital banking, and payment systems. Working closely with Project Managers and Product Owners, the role coordinates project planning, governance, reporting, risk and issue management, testing readiness, and implementation activities to ensure projects are delivered in a controlled, well-governed, and timely manner.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Project Managers and Product Owners in delivering business and technology change initiatives across credit cards, deposits, digital banking, and payment systems.
• Coordinate project plans, milestones, governance materials, status reporting, meeting minutes, and project documentation throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Track project actions, decisions, risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, escalating matters that may affect scope, timelines, cost, controls, or customer outcomes.
• Coordinate with Business, Technology, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and vendor stakeholders to confirm requirements, dependencies, testing readiness, and implementation checkpoints.
• Support user acceptance testing, including test planning, defect tracking, evidence collection, approvals, and sign-off.
• Assist with implementation and post-implementation activities, including readiness checklists, stakeholder communications, user verification, and handover to operations or production support.
• Maintain accurate and complete project records to support governance, risk management, and audit requirements.
• Prepare clear and concise updates for working groups, project steering committees, and management forums.
• Identify delivery risks and blockers early, coordinate mitigation actions, and keep relevant stakeholders informed.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by enhancing project templates, trackers, reporting processes, and delivery controls.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of project management experience, preferably within banking, financial services, or other regulated industries.
• Proven experience supporting project planning, governance, reporting, risk and issue management, testing, and implementation activities.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, problem-solving, and project delivery skills, with the ability to work effectively across Business and Technology teams.
• Fluent in written and spoken English; Cantonese or Mandarin would be an advantage.
• PMP, Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, or similar project management certifications are beneficial but 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.