Job Summary

This role could be based in Singapore , Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Poland. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based
The role also owns Assurance management information and reporting, providing clear, consistent and insight-driven visibility of plan performance, resource utilisation, delivery status, coverage gaps and emerging portfolio risks along with reporting to senior governance forums such as GRC. Working with the Data & Analytics and Transformation team, the role supports data-led prioritisation and improved transparency of assurance activity across the global portfolio. 
Acting as a senior member of the Professional Services team, the role works closely with Heads of Assurance, First Line Control Testing and Internal Audit to support a coordinated assurance approach across the lines of defence, ensuring alignment of assurance coverage, effective use of resources, and a clear, combined view of coverage across the Group. The role supports the function in remaining responsive to regulatory requests and other changes in the risk environment.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Support the delivery of a consistent, risk-based approach to assurance planning across the 2nd Line Assurance function 
•    Embed data-led prioritisation of assurance activity in partnership with Data & Analytics and Transformation teams 
•    Ensure assurance activity is focused on areas of highest importance, including Very High (VH) and High (H) risk exposures, material controls and control frameworks, important business services and resilience priorities and key regulatory and thematic risk areas
•    Drive continuous improvement in planning, resourcing and performance oversight to ensure assurance coverage remains targeted, efficient and risk-aligned.
Business
•    Lead and coordinate the annual assurance planning process across all 2nd Line Assurance teams. 
•    Consolidate planning inputs into a coherent global assurance plan. 
•    Provide effective challenge on plan development, including coverage of key risks, prioritisation of reviews and deliverability within available capacity.
•    Maintain the approved plan and support in-year reprioritisation as required. 
•    Ensure incorporation of regulatory requests and thematic reviews and ad hoc or emerging assurance requirements.
•    Maintain and actively manage a consolidated view of assurance coverage across the lines of defence.
Processes
•    Operate and maintain frameworks for annual and rolling planning, prioritisation and risk inputs, resource allocation and tracking and portfolio monitoring and reporting.
•    Ensure consistency in planning assumptions and approaches across assurance teams. 
•    Establish and maintain standards for timeline and milestone tracking, delivery monitoring and performance reporting.
•    Drive continuous improvement of planning and portfolio management processes.
•    Maintain processes that support an end-to-end view of activity across the lines of defence, supporting coordinated assurance.

People & Talent
•    Oversee allocation of resources across assurance reviews. 
•    Ensure alignment between capability and skillsets and review requirements.
•    Monitor utilisation, capacity constraints and resourcing gaps.
•    Maintain oversight of delivery against the assurance plan.
•    Identify and challenge delays, slippage and delivery risks. 
•    Work with Heads of Assurance to maintain delivery discipline across the portfolio.
Risk Management
•    Identify and monitor risks to plan integrity, delivery timelines and resource capacity.
•    Ensure that risks to the assurance plan are transparently reported to governance forums, with clear articulation of impact and mitigating actions.
•    Support the development and enhancement of tools, analytics, and methodologies used to identify, assess, and manage execution risk across the assurance portfolio.
•    Define and embed risk indicators to provide early warning of risks to plan execution, including delays, resourcing pressures, and changes in the risk environment.
Governance
•    Provide structured, committee-ready reporting for senior forums, including Group Risk Committee (GRC) and other relevant committees.
•    Provide structured updates to internal governance forums on plan status, delivery performance, resource position and emerging risks.
•    Ensure transparency of planning assumptions and plan changes. 
•    Maintain appropriate documentation and audit trail for planning decisions.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    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.

•    Ensure planning and reporting align with regulatory expectations on coverage.
•    Support responses to regulatory and internal requests relating to assurance activity. 
•    Maintain high standards of integrity, accuracy and accountability.
Key stakeholders
•    Head of Professional Services 
•    Global Heads of 2nd Line Assurance 
•    Head of Quality Assurance & ERM Effectiveness 
•    Director, Methodology & Enablement 
•    Group Internal Audit and First Line Control Testing 
•    Data & Analytics and Transformation teams 
•    Group Risk and Governance teams 
•    Relevant governance forums (including GRC)
Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Global Assurance team 
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country/Market, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
•    Lead special projects as requested by the Head of Professional Services or Global Head of Assurance.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    8+ years of experience in audit, assurance, risk or COO roles within banking. 
•    Experience managing or supporting risk-based planning and portfolio oversight. 
•    Strong understanding of risk management frameworks and control environments.
•    Experience developing and delivering management information and reporting. 
•    Strong analytical capability and data-driven mindset. 
•    Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
•    Good  Business Communication

Role Skills and Competencies

•    Regulatory Environment – Non-Financial Services
•    Regulatory Environment – Financial Services
•    Risk Management
•    Cross Functional Collaboration
•    Managing Change
•    Effective Communication

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.

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