Job Summary

The Group Licensed and Regulated Roles (GLRR) Programme is a strategic initiative to establish a consistent, global framework for managing regulatory licensing requirements across the Bank. The programme aims to strengthen regulatory compliance, enhance operational efficiency, and improve service delivery to clients and internal stakeholders.

The GLRR Transformation Lead will play a key role in delivering this programme, partnering closely with the Head of GLRR Transformation to design and implement a sustainable operating model. This includes building a centralised framework, embedding robust governance and controls, enabling technology solutions, regulatory process improvement to address issues and transitioning responsibilities into the HR function through a phased approach.

Key Responsibilities

Programme Delivery & Transformation

• Support the design and implementation of a global GLRR framework, aligned to regulatory requirements and business needs
• Support SWAP AP activity, process design and execution
• Delivery of a global target operating model, including governance, controls, and oversight mechanisms
• Create a centralised repository for licensed and regulated roles
• Implement supporting technology and tools 
• Undertake process design, standardisation, and process improvement across multiple jurisdictions
• Support the phased migration of GLRR activities to HR, including building capability within a Centre of Excellence

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with global and regional stakeholders to ensure effective adoption of the GLRR framework
• Enhance GLRR related risk management, governance, and oversight across the Bank
• Deliver improved service and transparency for internal stakeholders, including senior leadership and regulators

Process & Controls

• Design, implement, execute and maintain robust processes and controls to support GLRR activities
• Undertake country-level process improvement to address issues and inefficiencies
• Ensure consistent application of standards across jurisdictions

Data, Reporting & Governance

• Produce management information (MI), dashboards, and governance reporting
• Deliver insights through data analysis and reporting to support decision-making
• Ensure data integrity and consistency within the central repository

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure alignment with regulatory requirements (e.g. licensing regimes such as the SMCR)
• Embed a strong understanding of GLRR related regulatory obligations across the Group
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate risk and compliance issues

Governance & Oversight

• Support governance forums and escalation processes within the programme
• Provide guidance on GLRR governance structures and oversight frameworks
• Ensure alignment with Group policies, procedures, and strategic objectives

Skills and Experience

• Strong understanding of financial services regulatory licensing frameworks (for example the UK SMCR, or equivalent regimes)
• Business analysis and transformation/change experience with a proven track record of successful implementations
• Process design, improvement and execution
• Understanding of US SWAPs requirements
• Data analysis, reporting, and MI production (strong Excel skills required)
• Ability to manage and interpret complex requirements and data sets, and of working with IT to deliver solutions 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage senior stakeholders
• Ability to work collaboratively across global teams in a dynamic environment

Qualifications

Essential

• Demonstrated experience in transformation, change, or regulatory programmes within financial services
• Proven ability to manage and interpret complex requirements, and of working with IT to deliver solutions 
• Strong background in process design, improvement and execution
• Expertise in MI, reporting, and data analysis
• High attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Ability to influence and collaborate across a broad stakeholder group

Desirable

• Experience working with regulatory licensing and regulated roles frameworks
• Experience with Data transformation and consolidation initiatives
• Knowledge of risk management and governance frameworks
• Understanding of international banking operations
• Understanding of SWAP AP requirements
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office tools (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)

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.