Job Summary

Making data work - Lead the analysis, visualisation, and reporting of traded risk data to support business management, risk committees, and regulatory deliverables. The role delivers high-quality insights across Market Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk, translating complex data into clear, decision-ready intelligence for senior stakeholders and governance forums. 
Build and operate robust, well-governed, and fully automated (“zero-touch”) reporting solutions that enable efficient monitoring of risk metrics across portfolios, geographies, and dimensions. Drive standardisation, scalability, and data quality by leveraging deep expertise in data, infrastructure, and reporting processes, while aligning to group standards, regulatory expectations, and control frameworks. 
Partner across Risk, Finance, Technology, and Operations to strengthen data lineage, streamline workflows, and modernise the reporting landscape—delivering timely, accurate, and auditable risk information to support effective risk management and strategic decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Shape and execute the Traded Risk Reporting agenda by leading the analysis, visualisation and reporting of Market Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk metrics to support business management, senior risk committees and regulatory deliverables.
•    Drive the strategic evolution of risk reporting towards standardised, scalable and fully automated “zero-touch” solutions that provide timely, accurate and decision-ready intelligence across portfolios, geographies, products and risk dimensions.
•    Translate complex traded risk data, infrastructure constraints and emerging regulatory expectations into clear reporting priorities, insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
•    Promote continuous improvement in reporting capability by identifying opportunities to modernise platforms, improve data quality, strengthen lineage and reduce manual processing across the reporting landscape.

Business
•    Partner with Traded Risk Management, business heads, Finance, Product Control, Technology and Operations to deliver high-quality risk information that supports portfolio oversight, risk appetite monitoring, committee discussions and regulatory responses.
•    Provide insightful explains for movements in key risk metrics, including VaR, SVaR, sensitivities, stress testing measures, PFE, exposures, collateral and other Market Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk indicators.
•    Anticipate stakeholder needs and convert high-level or ambiguous requests into structured analysis, clear narratives and actionable outputs suitable for senior management, committees and regulators.
•    Support business decision-making by identifying trends, concentrations, emerging risks, data limitations and reporting implications across trading, banking and treasury portfolios.

Processes
•    Own and operate robust end-to-end reporting processes for traded risk metrics, ensuring outputs are produced accurately, consistently and within agreed timelines for business, governance and regulatory use.
•    Design, build and maintain automated reporting solutions, dashboards and data pipelines that reduce manual intervention, improve scalability and support efficient monitoring across portfolios, geographies and risk dimensions.
•    Embed strong process controls, reconciliations, validation checks and exception management to ensure completeness, accuracy, timeliness and auditability of reporting outputs.
•    Maintain clear documentation of data sources, lineage, transformations, controls, ownership and operating procedures to support transparency, continuity and assurance reviews.
•    Work with Technology, Risk Infrastructure and Data teams to remediate data quality issues, streamline workflows and enhance the strategic reporting architecture.

People & Talent 
•    Act as a senior subject matter expert within Traded Risk Reporting, sharing knowledge on risk metrics, data infrastructure, visualisation practices, reporting controls and stakeholder communication.
•    Provide guidance, coaching and quality review to analysts and colleagues involved in traded risk reporting, promoting high standards of analysis, documentation and delivery discipline.
•    Build collaborative relationships across Risk, Finance, Technology, Operations and country teams to foster effective problem-solving, knowledge sharing and consistent reporting practices.
•    Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, curiosity and control awareness, encouraging the use of automation, self-service analytics and scalable solutions.
•    Support resilience and succession by documenting key processes, cross-training team members and reducing reliance on individual knowledge or manual workarounds.

Risk Management
•    Ensure traded risk reports provide reliable insight into Market Risk and Counterparty Credit Risk exposures, limit utilisation, risk appetite metrics, stress outcomes, backtesting results, breaches, excesses and other key risk indicators.
•    Identify, assess and escalate material reporting issues, data quality concerns, control gaps and emerging risk themes in a timely manner, with clear impact assessment and remediation tracking.
•    Apply a strong control mindset to all reporting activities, ensuring outputs are complete, accurate, evidenced, independently reviewable and aligned to Group standards, risk data expectations and regulatory requirements.
•    Support audit, assurance and regulatory reviews by providing clear evidence of process design, data lineage, control operation, issue resolution and management oversight.
•    Contribute to effective risk management by transforming complex data into concise, forward-looking insights that enable senior stakeholders to understand drivers, vulnerabilities and required management actions.

Governance 
•    Prepare and support high-quality reporting for senior governance forums, risk committees, management meetings and regulatory deliverables, ensuring messages are accurate, concise, well-evidenced and action oriented.
•    Maintain governance discipline over reporting outputs, including version control, approvals, evidence retention, issue logs, control attestations and clear ownership of recurring deliverables.
•    Ensure reporting processes and outputs are aligned with relevant Group standards, policies, control frameworks, risk data principles and committee expectations.
•    Support transparent escalation and governance of unauthorised operations, excesses, breaches, backtesting exceptions, disclosure matters and other traded risk reporting issues.
•    Partner with stakeholders to strengthen data lineage, reporting ownership and accountability across the end-to-end risk reporting value chain.

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.
•    Work towards outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles. 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

•    RFO, Traded Risk Management, Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk
•    Regional Heads and country teams
•    Global Head, Risk & CFCC Reporting
•    Global Risk Services 
•    Group Finance and Product Control, 
•    CIB Markets – Change, Technology & Operations
•    Data strategy and AI Transformation
•    CDO – BCBS, Risk, Data quality 

Skills and Experience

•    Traded Risk Reporting, Metrics Analysis and Risk Interpretation
•    Data Analytics, Visualisation and Self-Service Insight Delivery
•    Automation, Python/SQL and Scalable Reporting Engineering
•    AI Tools, Prompt Engineering and Human-in-the-Loop Risk Intelligence
•    Process Design, Control Frameworks and Continuous Improvement
•    Stakeholder Communication, Committee Reporting and Regulatory Deliverables
 

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Financial Risk Management or a related quantitative discipline.
•    Relevant professional qualification or progress towards FRM, CFA, PRM, CQF, data analytics, cloud, automation or AI-related certification is desirable.
•    Strong practical experience in Traded Risk, Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk, risk reporting, risk data aggregation, regulatory reporting or financial markets reporting within a financial institution.
•    Hands-on capability in using data, analytics, visualisation and automation tools to design scalable reporting solutions, reduce manual effort, improve controls and unlock process efficiencies.
•    Working knowledge of AI-enabled productivity and analytics tools, including responsible use of generative AI, prompt engineering, AI-assisted code development, automated commentary generation, anomaly detection, self-service analytics and workflow automation.
•    Demonstrated ability to create robust frameworks covering data lineage, validation, reconciliation, exception management, evidence retention, human-in-the-loop review, model/tool governance and audit-ready documentation.
•    Strong understanding of risk metrics and reporting processes, including VaR, SVaR, sensitivities, stress testing, PFE, collateral, limit utilisation, breaches, excesses, backtesting, RWA/capital and related governance deliverables.
•    Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convert complex data and technical issues into clear, concise and decision-ready insights for senior stakeholders, committees, auditors and regulators.

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.