Job Summary

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates

Key Responsibilities

The SEO serves as the authorised person and primary individual responsible for overall management, governance, and operational integrity of the entity. The SEO ensures the firm’s activities comply with financial regulations, oversees investment and risk management frameworks, drives commercial growth, and serves as the liaison with regulators, clients, investors, and strategic partners

• Serve as the Authorised Individual responsible for regulatory compliance under DFSA rules
• Lead regulatory inspections, reviews, and ongoing supervision discussions
• Ensure adherence to the firm’s FSRA permissions and activities

• Define and execute the firm’s strategic plan 
• Drive AUM growth through investor engagement, institutional relationships, and partnerships
• Represent the firm at events, roadshows, and engagements

• Oversee operations of the platform, ensuring efficiency and adherence to internal standards
• Manage relationships with service providers
• Implement and maintain operational resilience frameworks and BCP
• Optimise processes and systems across compliance, finance, HR, and tech

• Provide oversight and challenge on investment decisions, portfolio construction, and risk exposure
• Chair or participate in the Investment Committee
• Ensure activities align with regulatory permissions and the fund’s offering documents
• Maintain oversight of due diligence, transaction approvals, and risk reviews

Our Ideal Candidate

Education     Minimum of Degree or other advanced education.    

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.