Job Summary

The role is positioned within fiduciary and fund services operations, where you will support compliance checks to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements, coordinate with relevant stakeholders to perform root‑cause analysis and define corrective/remedial actions and prepare regular compliance monitoring reports, dashboards, and key risk indicators for senior management & committees. This position supports 10 regions, including Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. The role is based in Malaysia and reports to the functional head of fund compliance in Malaysia.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct daily, weekly, and periodic compliance checks to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g. investment and borrowing limits, liquidity and leverage rules, concentration limits, reporting timelines).
• Monitor compliance with fund prospectuses, offering documents, investment management agreements, and side letters.
• Perform pre‑ and post‑trade investment guideline monitoring (e.g. issuer limits, sector/industry caps, counterparty risk, ESG restrictions).
• Post-trade alerts investigation in Charles River/Excel, address escalation and provide resolution

• Preparation of Fund Performance Measurement Reports using Statpro (i.e. Allocation, Risk Analysis, Factsheets)
• Oversight of testing of Charles River and Statpro Revolution
• Identify, investigate, and document compliance breaches and rule exceptions.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to perform root‑cause analysis and define corrective/remedial actions.
• Escalate material issues to management, fund boards, and, where required, regulators in line with escalation procedures.
• Understand and have responsibility for the risks associated with the Fiduciary Services global team
• Contribute to the design, implementation, and ongoing enhancement of the compliance monitoring framework, including automated rules and manual checks.
• Assist in maintaining and updating compliance policies, procedures, and monitoring programmes in line with regulatory changes and industry best practice.
• Support risk‑based and thematic reviews to test the effectiveness of controls across the fund services business.
• Prepare regular compliance monitoring reports, dashboards, and key risk indicators for senior management, fund boards, and internal governance committees.
• Maintain accurate records and audit trails of all monitoring activities, breaches, and remediation actions.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, and board reporting requirements.
• Ensure procedure documents are up-to-date and team is following the process
• Challenge the status quo and identify opportunities for process enhancements
• Enhance existing compliance coding, and investigate / troubleshoot potential breaches when needed
• Drive connectivity with other locations and partner with peers globally in each of the fiduciary services teams
• Responsibilities relating to the direction, planning, structure, frameworks (e.g. processes and policies) and oversight. For example, Responsible for assessing the effectiveness of the Group’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas; Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework, in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.

Skills and Experience

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Multifonds Accounting System 
•    Charles River Investment Management Solution
•    Fund Accounting knowledge/experiences
•    Banking/Finance/Audit
•    Compliance Monitoring
•    Performance Measurement
•    Fiduciary Services 

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.