Job Summary

We are hiring a Country Head of Risk & Controls (VP level) to lead non-financial risk management for Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Coverage across Continental Europe, based in Frankfurt. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for overseeing non-financial risks across CIB Coverage Continental Europe. You will ensure alignment with group standards and regulatory requirements, driving core operational risk activities, and act as the primary escalation point for risk incidents and control weaknesses.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders across the business, COO, Compliance, and Risk functions to strengthen control environments, proactively manage emerging risks, and support strategic and regulatory change.

Key Responsibilities

• Accountable for process risk, control effectiveness, and governance, operating at the intersection of business strategy, regulatory expectations, and operational resilience.
• Lead core operational risk activities, including KRIs/KCIs, issue management, residual risk assessments, and remediation delivery.
• Act as the primary escalation point for material operational risk incidents, emerging risks, and control weaknesses.
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Business, COO, Compliance, GPO, GBS, and Regional Risk & Control teams to embed best practice and support transformation initiatives.
• Manage relationship with internal and external auditors and regulators, ensuring robust audit outcomes and timely issue resolution
• Build risk capability across the organisation through targeted training and risk culture initiatives.
• Co-Chair and lead key governance forums, including the CIB Non‑Financial Risk Forum, ensuring clear escalation of material risk themes to senior management.
• Deliver clear, decision focussed risk reporting to senior stakeholders.

Skills and Experience

• Extensive experience within Corporate & Investment Banking Coverage, Transaction Banking, and/or Financial Markets, with strong understanding of cross‑business risks.
• Deep expertise in operational risk management and enterprise risk frameworks within a regulated financial services environment.
• Experience across Client Due Diligence, Entity Management, Credit Management, and relevant regulatory requirements (e.g. PRA/FCA, MaRisk) is advantageous.
• Proven ability to produce high‑quality risk papers and senior management reporting.
• Demonstrated track record of independently leading complex initiatives, thematic reviews, and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong judgement, with the confidence to challenge constructively and influence at senior levels.
• Experience in operations, change, or project delivery is beneficial.
• Fluent in English; German language capability is an advantage.

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.