Job Summary

The Country Trade & Cash Business Risk is entrusted to ensure the Trade & Cash teams (front to back) in the Country operate in full compliance with all Country and Group policies as well as local regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensuring Operation Units’ standards and roadmap abide by Group operating principles, policies and procedures as well as Country Addendums and Enterprise Risk Management Framework (“ERMF”)
• Ensuring that the execution of Operations’ functions is fully compliant with statutory regulations, laws, guidelines.
• Support Cluster, Business Risk in the overall effective and proactive management of Operation units’ risks and control gaps.
• Act as the voice, eyes and ears of the Cluster Head, Trade & Cash Business Risk for all matters related to Risk for the Country.
• Oversee the effective execution of controls within the Country (front to back), including identification of gaps and remediation of issues, elevating residual risk where appropriate.
• Create and maintain complete, accurate and targeted metrics to allow the COO, the Cluster Head Business Risk Management for Trade & Cash and Business Head to constantly assess the control environment and residual risk profile.
• Effectively manage the entire Risk Management agenda for Trade & Cash within the region, along with ensuring targeted Front to Back peer reviews, and the proactive rippling of peer review and audit findings.
• Carrying regular dialogue with audit team to be informed of results of reviews and audit activity
• Work with Country teams and Group to drive hubbing of control checks where feasible, ensuring continued country oversight and ownership of hubbed checks and processes.

Skills and Experience

• Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills.
• An excellent communicator, able to build strong relationships with internal and external customers.
• A strong ability and desire to work as and be part of a team.
• Able to think laterally / solve problems.
• Fluent in English & Arabic

Qualifications

• Education - University Degree from an accredited institution
• Certifications - Operational Risk / Risk Management/ Compliance certification preferred.

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.