Job Summary

As part of the global UK Audit and Corporate Governance (UK ACG) programme, the purpose of the role is to support the Global IT & Third-Party Lead to oversee / successfully complete the work in relation to IT Application Control testing for in-scope IT systems &/ or services. This includes the strategic design, workstream plans, design of testing procedures, performing SOX testing for in-scope third parties (including the review of SOC1 & SOC2 reports), and review / agreement of findings (including QA review and investigate) to drive subsequent remediation activities where required.
The Manager, IT Application Controls role sits within the UK ACG Third Party Controls sub-stream. The main responsibility of the Manager will be to support the Global IT & Third-Party Lead in delivering the applications controls SOX compliance programme by performing an assessment of controls across IT applications in any in-scope business or function where they fall within the scope of the UK ACG programme.
The candidate will need to have a good understanding of control requirements, preparation of test scripts, and the ability to design & test controls.

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology & Operations (T&O) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we are agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We are a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.
When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170-year organisation and building on it. We are driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

Key Responsibilities

•    Understand the workstream objectives and roadmap.
•    Understand the control objectives and test procedures.
•    Identify in-scope third parties supporting in-scope IT applications or in-scope business processes, e.g., financial reporting.
•    Responsible for review control documentation, understand the control coverage and time, check controls, assessing gaps.
•    Responsible for preparing SOX supporting documentation for each in-scope application to include details of the control coverage, risks, deficiencies.
•    Coordination activities across the control testing team and liaise with other related stakeholders as required during the planning and scheduling of reviews.
•    Where required, support any remote or onsite audit of an in-scope third party
•    Arrange meetings to facilitate Control testing / validation.
•    Involvement in subsequent QA of results as required.
•    Diligently provide weekly and ad hoc reporting on the status of assessments.
•    Maintain a register of control testing outcomes and control gaps.

Skills and Experience

• Strong programme project management and analytical skills with good understanding of Clarity    
• Good understanding of the banking industry and regulatory environment    
• Experience in managing and delivering regulatory programmes / projects preferred, particularly prudential regulations    
• Strong analytical capability    
• Exceptional relationship management skills    
• Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills i.e. PowerPoint, Excel, MS Project    
• Good understanding of governance and risk management    
• Ability to influence, negotiate and constructively challenge at a variety of levels    
• Ability to manage multiple deliverables in a timely and effective manner    
• High level of responsiveness, sense of urgency; ability to operate in a highly pressurised and dynamic environment    
• Strong drive for results, ability to plan, track and follow through to deliver an aggressive project plan agenda    

Qualifications

• Degree qualified ideally, with 10+ years in banking, specifically experience in working on large multi-dimensional programmes / projects across business and functions.

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.