Job Summary

 ‘Manager – Regulatory Implementation’ will be a key contributor in executing regulatory change initiatives across Markets onboarding activities. This role sits within the Markets Onboarding Regulatory Implementation team and supports the timely and accurate implementation of new and evolving financial regulations, including but not limited to Dodd-Frank, SEC, CFTC, EMIR, MiFID II & UMR

The analyst will help coordinate regulatory impact assessments, assist in designing and executing implementation plans, and ensure that front-office, operations, and support teams integrate compliance controls and regulatory specific onboarding requirements into business-as-usual (BAU) processes.

This role is critical in maintaining the regulatory integrity of the firm’s client base, enabling uninterrupted trading activity, and ensuring ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements for client classifications, disclosures, and documentation. The ideal candidate has strong knowledge of financial products, regulatory frameworks, and operational execution in institutional banking environment.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Monitor, track, and analyze global and domestic financial regulations that impact the bank’s corporate and institutional banking businesses.
•    Collaborate with compliance and legal teams to interpret the scope, timelines, and implications of proposed or enacted rules.
•    Support the preparation of regulatory impact assessments, identifying business functions, systems, products, and processes affected.
•    Work with program/project managers to define workstreams, milestones, and deliverables related to regulatory change projects.
•    Contribute to regulatory implementation plans, aligning business needs with compliance objectives.
•    Participate in execution of change programs including drafting procedures, updating controls, and documenting workflows.
•    Identify and implement necessary technology and tools to support the underlying process.
Business
•    Translate regulatory requirements into detailed business and operational requirements, working closely with operations, technology, and front office teams.
•    Act as the business product owners for regulatory onboarding requirements
•    Support documentation of current-state and future-state process flows, identifying necessary adjustments to comply with new regulations.
•    Assist with user acceptance testing (UAT) for new systems or control enhancements required to meet regulatory mandates.
•    Participate in stakeholder meetings, facilitate working group discussions, and ensure consistent understanding of requirements across departments.
•    Maintain clear and structured communication channels among all stakeholders to track progress and escalate issues where needed.

Processes

•    Maintain comprehensive project trackers, dashboards, and issue logs related to regulatory implementation activities.
•    Prepare reports, executive summaries, and presentations for internal governance forums, risk committees, and regulatory updates.
•    Ensure accurate maintenance of regulatory records, implementation evidence, and process documentation for audit readiness.
•    Prepare user stories, review user stories and UAT test cases, wherever applicable

Skill and Experience

•    Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
•    Min 7-8 years of experience in financial services, ideally in regulatory change management, compliance, client onboarding, or markets operations.
•    Understanding of financial markets products (e.g., fixed income, equities, OTC derivatives, FX) and their regulatory implications.
•    Having experience working on regulatory programs (e.g., CFTC Swap Dealer rules, EMIR, MiFID II) will be added advantage.
•    Familiar with documenting workflows, control points, and policy requirements.
•    Proficiency in MS Office ie Excel and PowerPoint  and business tools (e.g., JIRA/ADO, Confluence, Tableau, Visio).
•    Good communication skills verbal and written

Qualifications

EDUCATION     Masters/Graduate degree preferred

CERTIFICATIONS     PMP or Project Management Certification preferred
LANGUAGES     English (spoken and written)

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.