Job Summary

•    Proactively support and challenge Private banking businesses and supporting functions to exhibit appropriate conduct, comply with regulatory and compliance requirements and strive to achieve fair outcome for the Bank’s clients.
•    Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all key business and functional stakeholders that is based on trust, capability and integrity, providing timely, responsive and quality regulatory compliance advice and guidance to enable the business and functions to meet/ achieve their strategic tactical objectives.
•    Supports Executive Director, WRB CFCR, Affluent and Wealth in relationships with stakeholders
•    Daily managing the requests from the business and team
 

Strategy
•    Help SCB meet its commitment of being "Here for Good" by building a sustainable framework that places conduct, financial crime and compliance (“CFCR”) best practice standards, at the forefront of the Bank’s agenda.
•    As an independent second line risk control function, to execute the relevant aspects of the CFCR PRTFs through robust independent risk control and the provision of specialist advice and constructive challenge in a manner proportionate to the nature, scale and complexity of WRB businesses.
•    Proactively support and challenge WRB businesses and supporting functions to exhibit appropriate conduct, comply with regulatory and compliance requirements and strive to achieve fair outcome for the Bank’s clients.
•    For maintaining independence, delivering timely responses, and timely escalation of risks and issues where the management tolerance of the firm is exceeded.
•    For maintaining constructive and effective stakeholder relationships with the relevant businesses and supporting functions, and to assist TBC to interface with, and support all key stakeholders.
•    Drive high standards of regulatory compliance and deliver key priorities and initiatives, aligned to the relevant WRB performance scorecards.

Skills and Experience

Business
•    Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all key business and functional stakeholders that is based on trust, capability and integrity, providing timely, responsive and quality regulatory compliance advice and guidance to enable the business and functions to meet/ achieve their strategic tactical objectives.
•    Provide robust challenge to senior management and all relevant business stakeholders where activities are outside risk tolerance/ appetite, escalating as necessary, until appropriate oversight and ownership is achieved including actions and plans to address any remedial action needed to come back within risk tolerance/ appetite.
•    Work closely with the business to provide timely regulatory compliance advice to ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations and support the transition to pro-active and pre-emptive compliance and conduct risk mitigation.
•    Regular and diarised catch ups with all key business stakeholders.

Processes
•    Establish and maintain effective processes (including training, advice and support) to ensure that policies, procedures and standards to address compliance risks are effectively implemented and adhered to across WRB. 
•    Provide support and challenge to the Bank’s senior management to ensure that they establish and monitor appropriate processes for compliance with compliance policies and standards (including meeting regulatory obligations and 
•    Provide CDD related training to WRB Business and relevant stakeholders

People & Talent
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management
•    In collaboration with relevant senior managers, support a programme for compliance monitoring, surveillance and assurance for WRB business.
•    Ensure effective management of compliance matters, and in collaboration with the rest of the Compliance team, effectively manage regulatory issues that have a significant impact on the Bank.
•    Collaborate with the other Compliance teams to anticipate horizon risks that may have a significant impact on the Bank and develop effective strategies to mitigate such horizon risks including global standards for conduct of business.
•    Provide reports to relevant Group and Business risk and control committees and management group on key compliance risks and issues.
•    Lead and drive regulatory projects discussion and implementation in WRB by working with key stakeholders across business segments. Provide regulatory guidance and interpretation of the requirements. 
•    Maintain adequate management MI / trackers across all aspects of their coverage and responsibility to ensure all issues and matters are tracked, followed, regularly assessed and reported on.
•    Assist in developing and maintaining effective policies/standards/DOIs (including training, advice and support) to address CFCR risks across WRB, aligning with relevant regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Compliance professional of at least 8 years standing with specific focus on CFCR CDD/ AML Advisory for CPBB business. 
• Well-verse in the understanding of regulations impacting WRB, and other like guidance / circulars. 
• Good judgment enabling the provision of sound advice in difficult areas of regulation and practice and the proactive management of compliance and regulatory risk.
• Must possess excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity. 
• Sound judgement on business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk. 
• Be able to operate independently and demonstrate robustness in ethics and resilience. 
• Provide guidance and support to junior team members on CDD Advisory matters. 
• A team player and has the right aptitude to work with different stakeholders and committed to meet deadlines.

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.