Job Summary

Strategy/ Business
Compliance to Risk & Control
•    Ensures adherence to internal policies related to applicable processes to Trade Finance domain, with focus on technology/ICS/Resiliency categories. Also, to the applicable regulatory requirements and industry standards.

Control Evaluation and Testing
•    Comprehensive assessments of Technology & ICS controls to ensure they are operating effectively, including substantive verification of supporting evidences.

People & Talent
•    Not applicable since not a People Leader

Risk Assessment and Mitigation
•    Identifying, analyzing, and managing risks associated with technology, including cyber threats, data breaches, and system failures. 
•    Produces and manages documented, specific resolution action plans, actively seeking to close open items by working with risk/issue owners.

Processes/ Governance

Stakeholder Management 
•    Builds and maintains strong, positive relationships with stakeholders
•    Ensures key stakeholders are kept aware of project status, risks & issues (‘no surprises’)

Collaboration
•    Working with cross-functional teams, including IT, Compliance, and Operational Risk, to support control design, implementation, and monitoring. 
 

Key Responsibilities

Documentation and Reporting
•    Maintaining detailed documentation of assessments, testing procedures, and results to support conclusions and recommendations. 

Communication and Stakeholder Management
•    Communicating risk findings and recommendations to various levels of management, including senior leaders, and building strong relationships with stakeholders. 

Technical Skills
•    Familiarity with DevOps and SDLC measure and adoption to project deliverables
•    Familiarity with security tools like firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), anti-malware software, and data loss prevention (DLP) solutions. 
•    Knowledge of incident response procedures, including detection, containment, eradication, and recovery. 
•    Understanding of access control mechanisms and how to implement and maintain them. 
•    Familiarity with industry-specific regulations and standards like MAS, HKMA. Performing control testing and validation to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. 
Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills
•    Ability to analyze complex data, identify control gaps, and develop effective risk mitigation strategies. 

Communication and Interpersonal Skills
•    Strong communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate effectively with various stakeholders and present findings to senior management. 

Collaboration
•    Supports Trade product (BnM) build & maintain squads in ensuring compliance to risk & controls measures.
o    Understands thoroughly applicable risk & controls categories for the Trade domain. 
o    Drives with passion adherence to controls requirements. 
o    Management process involves establishing goals, communicating them to the team members, and tracking their progress.

Key stakeholders

•    COO & Operations (Group, Regional, Country and Hub)
•    Business - Product/Sales (Global, Regional, Country)
•    Technology (Global and Country)
 

Skills and Experience

• Negotiation Skills
• Leadership
• Stakeholder Management
• Change Management
• Problem Solving
• Communication Management
• Concern for Quality and Standards
• Project Coordination
• Project Reporting
• Project Schedule Development and Management
• Project Financial Management
• Project Reporting
• Risk & Issue Management
• Scope Development and Management
• Understands and follows Bank governance processes
• Utilises a formal Project Framework
   

Qualifications

• EDUCATION     DEGRRE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE & IT
• TRAINING     Training/qualifications in risk & controls    
• CERTIFICATIONS     CRISC, CISA, CISSP (OPTIONAL)
• LANGUAGES     ENGLISH
   

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.