Job Summary

Strategy

• Work within the Credit and Portfolio Management (CPM) team to spearhead the management of non-financial risks across the business.

• Enable a sustainable and standardised approach to managing governance and operations across CPM   

Business

• Coordinate NFRC participation and coverage, following-up on appropriate actions and requirements.
• Support business teams with managing governance requirements, primarily focusing on Non Core Equity business within CPM.
• Work closely with Compliance, Group Risk COO office and other key stakeholders to embed conduct risk and controls, focusing on the Non-Core Equity responsibilities. 
• Maintain strong relationship with Risk Finance, Group Compliance & Regulatory Reform, Fraud Risk, Group Operational Risk and Credit Risk to ensure a good understanding of regulatory and policy requirements.

People and Talent 

• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Create and foster a diverse and inclusive team and culture, championing the importance of psychological safety to ensure people feel empowered to speak up & contribute.

Risk Management

• Manage process and business governance requirements.
• Standards and process document management.
• Manage adherence to various policies and standards applicable to CPM.
• Maintain an open and cooperative relationship in dealings with stakeholders, including auditors.
• Ensure that there are controls in place to support the governance of NCE function.

Key Responsibilities

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, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• CPM Governance team
• Global and Regional CPM teams 
• Group CFCC
• Group Operational Risk
• CCIB and Risk Technology
• CCIB and Group COO Offices

Other Responsibilities

• Leverage the opportunity provided by Corporate Social Responsibility to enhance the Group’s internal and external reputation and indirectly influence the bottom line.
• Promote the Group’s brand with clients, stakeholders, and regulators.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Skills and Experience

• Manage Conduct
• Manage Risk
• Manage People
• Problem Solving skills
• SAS/ Python/ SQL
• Analytical Skills

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in risk management in banking
• Strong understanding of process and business risk
• Strong understanding of corporate lending and preferably an understanding of equity and quasi-equity investment products.
• Interpersonal skills in networking, influencing and decision taking.
• Excellent communication skills – oral, written and presentation.
• Ability to engage and drive outcomes effectively across stakeholder groups, from working level through to senior 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.