Job Responsibilities

•    Identify and report key risks material to the Group and challenge the First Line to evidence that the material risks arising from their business activities have been identified, assessed, monitored and reported.
•    To review, recommend, discuss and analyse traded risk data and other financial product information with a view of setting risk parameters sufficient to protect the Group from extreme loss.
•    Identify and escalate new and emerging risks that could be material to the region.  Recommend relevant governance to control these emerging risks to help the bank to avoid big loss.
•    Monitor internal and external events material to the Group and ensure appropriate management action is being taken to mitigate their impact.
•    To create transparency and escalate in a timely manner to relevant stakeholders regarding the key exposures in the region.
•    To challenge business and control function heads to demonstrate that risk origination and control decisions are properly informed and consistent with strategy and Risk Appetite.
•    Assist and design and oversee the implementation of relevant stress tests and scenario analysis for the GCNA region.
•    Ensure that traded risk measurement methodologies are fit-for-purpose, comprehensive and implemented with integrity.
•    Ensure that risk decisions are transparent and supporting rationales are explained in a professional courteous manner, especially when turning down proposals.
•    Responsibility for regular or ad-hoc market risk activities reports / information / analysis to management.
•    Assist and design and oversee the implementation of local risk-wide initiatives/projects such as recovery planning, ICAAP, SDST, etc.
•    Assist the implementation of Markets related reporting / projects, such as regulatory reporting and overseeing Markets risk management.
•    To address local regulatory requirements as they pertain to risk management, prudential standards and governance, conduct and operational standards.

Job Requirements

• Academic Qualifications: Bachelor or above degree with quantitative skills. 
• Professional Experience: Experienced Market Risk Manager with detailed knowledge and understanding of financial markets and products. 
• Membership of HK Treasury Markets Association.  If non-member, then successful candidate to apply for membership upon joining the Bank.
• Completion of internal mandatory and specific developmental training plans.
• Language: Fluent in English.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Manage Risk
•    Market / Liquidity
•    Business Partnering
•    Manage Conduct
•    Relationship Management
•    Communication and Influencing Skills

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.