Job Summary

The successful candidate should bring strong credit risk reporting experience, good analytical judgement and, preferably, familiarity with Financial Sponsors, leveraged finance, private equity structures or private credit portfolios. The role will also support the modernisation of reporting processes through improved controls, standardisation, dashboarding and automation.
This is a contract role till December 2027. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support the delivery and enhancement of CIB Credit Risk reporting for Financial Sponsors and Private Credit.
•    Help improve the quality, consistency and usefulness of risk information used by senior management and risk committees.
•    Support better linkage between portfolio reporting, risk appetite, stress testing and management actions for Financial Sponsors and Private Credit exposures.
•    Bring a forward-looking mindset to how reporting can better identify concentrations, vulnerabilities and emerging portfolio risks.
Business
•    Prepare, review and explain regular risk reporting outputs for Financial Sponsors, Private Credit and related CIB portfolios.
•    Translate portfolio data into clear management insights, covering exposure movements, obligor concentrations, sector trends, credit quality, limit usage and emerging risks.
•    Support committee and senior management reporting, including preparation of commentary, packs, analysis and responses to stakeholder queries.
•    Develop understanding of the Financial Sponsors and Private Equity landscape, including sponsor-backed borrowers, fund structures, leveraged exposures and private credit risk themes.
Processes
•    Support the production and review of BAU reporting deliverables in a controlled and timely manner.
•    Improve reporting processes through simplification, standardisation, automation and better documentation.
•    Work with Data, Technology and Change teams to improve the quality and reliability of reporting inputs.
•    Support UAT, data validation, implementation and post-implementation review for reporting-related change initiatives. 

Risk Management
•    Interpret portfolio movements, exposure trends, risk appetite usage, credit quality, RWA and ECL metrics for Financial Sponsors and Private Credit portfolios.
•    Apply review and challenge to reporting outputs to identify unexplained movements, data issues, weak commentary, control gaps and potential escalation items.
•    Support clear articulation of portfolio risks, including concentration risk, leverage-related risks, refinancing risk, sponsor risk and sector vulnerabilities.
•    Help ensure reporting outputs are accurate, analytically sound and aligned to the underlying portfolio risk profile.
Governance
•    Ensure reporting outputs are produced in line with applicable governance standards, controls, policies and regulatory expectations.
•    Maintain appropriate documentation, process evidence, reconciliations and issue logs.
•    Support remediation of reporting issues and control gaps where required.
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
•    CIB Credit
•    Financial Sponsors and Private Credit Risk teams
•    CPM
•    Risk Appetite teams
•    Stress Testing teams
•    CIB Risk Reporting and Portfolio Analytics
•    Risk and CFCC Data Strategy
•    Risk and CFCC Change
•    Technology
•    Group Finance
•    Country CROs
Other Responsibilities
•    Support change activities required to improve Credit Risk reporting, including requirements definition, UAT, implementation support, data validation and post-implementation review.
•    Support data quality controls, reconciliations and exception management to ensure that reporting outputs are accurate, trusted and fit for management use.

Skills and Experience

•    Python and data analytics for risk reporting automation
•    Credit Risk reporting and portfolio analytics
•    Dashboard design and management reporting visualisation
•    CIB Credit Risk knowledge
•    Risk appetite, risk reporting and stress testing integration
•    Reporting transformation and sustainable BAU delivery under pressure
•    Financial Sponsor and Private Equity and Leverage Lending

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, economics, risk management, quantitative discipline, computer science or related field.
•    5 to 7 years’ experience in credit risk reporting, portfolio analytics, risk appetite reporting, stress testing or related financial institution risk roles.
•    Experience in CIB credit risk reporting is strongly preferred.
•    Familiarity with Financial Sponsors, Private Equity, leveraged finance or Private Credit portfolios is advantageous.
•    Strong ability to review and challenge reporting outputs and explain portfolio movements clearly.
•    Good understanding of credit risk metrics, including exposure, credit grade, concentration, limit usage, RWA and ECL.
•    Strong Excel and data analysis skills. Python or dashboarding experience is advantageous.
•    Strong written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate complex risk information into clear senior management commentary.
•    Ability to work under pressure and manage competing deadlines in a controlled reporting environment

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.