Job Summary

The Data Risk Manager is responsible for supporting CIB-wide risk governance for data‑related risks, regulatory commitments, and audit actions. The role ensures consistent oversight of data risk, supports reporting into governance committees, and partners with GIA, CFCC, GCDO, and business risk teams to ensure timely and accurate monitoring of risk remediation across CIB Data.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Support CIB Data risk strategy and alignment with Group Data and CIB risk frameworks.
• Maintain visibility of emerging risk themes, regulatory expectations, and areas of CIB focus.

Business

• Partner with business risk teams to identify, track, and validate data risk remediation activities.
• In coordination with GCDO to provide clarity advisory on CIB data risk issues, regulatory expectations, and upcoming commitments.

Processes

• Maintain risk registers, commitment trackers, and assurance pipelines.
• Coordinate timely submission of materials for CIB NFRC, GDRC, BAC, and other governance routines.
• Support policy & standards pipeline by assessing impacts and coordinating changes.

People & Talent

• Educate stakeholders on data risk requirements and best practices.
• Build awareness of Group Data policy, standards, and data risk frameworks by charting a roadmap of upcoming changes and releases of policies and standards impacting CIB CDO

Risk Management

• Track and monitor CIB-wide regulatory and audit commitments.
• Support risk identification, assessment, and mitigation across all CIB data initiatives.
• Ensure consistency of data risk classifications and controls.

Governance

• Prepare high‑quality risk reports, dashboards, and submissions for committees.
• Ensure robust governance, documentation, and audit trail for risk management processes.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Comply with regulatory obligations, conduct standards, and Group Data policies.
• Ensure integrity and accuracy of data presented in risk forums.
• 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.

Long Description

Key stakeholders

• CIB CDO (Service & Risk)
• GCDO Governance
• GIA
• CFCC
• CIB NFRC
• Business COOs and Risk Teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CIB CDO Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of experience working in or consulting for Financial Institutions is critical. Knowledge of Corporate & Institutional Banking is strongly preferred.
• Able to prioritise work, manage stress, time, and change effectively
• Experience working with business, operations, compliance and technology stakeholders across varying levels of seniority
• Good problem solving / analytical skills
• Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and work with minimal management oversight
• Strong communication skills – oral and written. Ability to craft meaningful yet succinct PowerPoint presentations and reports is a must.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Ability to create effective work relationships across functions & borders
• Good presentation, time management, negotiation and influencing skills

Skills and Experience

• Data Risk & Regulatory Framework Knowledge
• Controls, Assurance & Audit Management
• Regulatory Commitments Oversight
• Risk Reporting & Technical Writing
• Data Governance Standards

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.