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Securities Services Ops Transformation, Programme Manager, ED (Singapore, Hong Kong)
Role summary
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This senior role leads transformation programmes across Securities Services operations in Singapore and Hong Kong. Responsibilities typically include defining programme strategy, managing complex change initiatives, improving operational controls and client service, coordinating technology and process transformation, and reporting progress to senior stakeholders. Candidates are expected to have extensive experience in securities services, custody, fund administration, or financial operations, together with strong programme and change-management expertise. The role requires excellent stakeholder management, commercial awareness, risk understanding, and the ability to work across countries and functions. Experience delivering regulatory, digitalisation, automation, or operating-model change in a banking environment is highly desirable. Strong communication, governance, problem-solving, and leadership skills are essential.
Can I work in Singapore?
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How it works
How it works: Employment Pass: SGD 6,200+ a month in banking at 23, more with age (6,600 from January 2027), plus 40 COMPASS points for pay, degree, nationality mix and local hiring.
Before you apply: Dealing, advising and senior roles usually need a regulator's licence or approval, which checks your honesty, skills and finances. Ask if your job does.
Watch for: You score 0 nationality points when your nationality is 25% or more of the firm's professionals and managers; the job is usually advertised to locals for 14 days first.
Official source: Ministry of Manpower: Employment Pass eligibility. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in Singapore
Usual for Banking jobs in Singapore, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Not usual; senior expats may get an allowance; Work Permit staff: employer must ensure proper housing (by law) |
|---|---|
| Relocation | Work Permit staff: employer pays levy, bond and insurance (by law); relocation help is an expat perk |
| Flights | Work Permit staff: flight home paid by the employer (by law); others only if the offer says so |
| Contract | Work Permit up to 2 years; S Pass and Employment Pass up to 2, then 3; notice 1 day to 4 weeks by default |
| Leave | 7 to 14 days (by law; many get more); 11 public holidays; 14 days' sick leave, 60 in hospital |
| Income tax | 0% up to SGD 20,000 a year, then 2% to 24% (about 3% at SGD 60,000); resident rates on a 1-year pass |
| Health cover | Employer must insure Work Permit and S Pass staff, SGD 60,000 a year (by law); Employment Pass: company plan |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About Standard Chartered
Standard Chartered is an international banking group headquartered in London, with a strong focus on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The bank provides retail, private, commercial, and corporate banking, wealth management, and financial-market services to individuals, businesses, institutions, and governments. Its Securities Services business supports institutional clients with custody, fund administration, settlement, asset servicing, and related post-trade solutions. Standard Chartered operates in more than 50 markets and promotes its purpose of driving commerce and prosperity through its international network. Singapore is one of the group’s major regional hubs, hosting important technology, operations, risk, wealth, and institutional-banking teams. The company generally values collaboration, responsible banking, inclusion, regulatory discipline, and innovation. Senior employees are expected to work across functions and geographies while delivering resilient, well-controlled services for clients.