Job Summary

This role will be responsible for leading and managing the Islamic Banking business across the country, developing and executing the overall business strategy to achieve sustainable growth, profitability, and market leadership while ensuring full compliance with Shariah principles and applicable regulatory requirements. The incumbent will drive revenue generation, expand the customer base, and strengthen the Islamic Banking franchise through innovative product development, strategic partnerships, and enhanced service delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive Islamic Banking revenue performance in close partnership with business leadership, ensuring sustainable growth and achievement of strategic financial objectives.
• Engage closely with Governance, Compliance, and Risk functions to strengthen oversight, enhance controls, and ensure alignment with regulatory and Shariah requirements.
• Champion the growth and strategic direction of Islamic Banking by partnering closely with Corporate and Investment Banking and Wealth & Retail Banking Business Heads to deliver sustainable business expansion, market leadership, and financial performance.
• Drive the integration of the “One Bank” philosophy across all Islamic Banking initiatives, ensuring seamless collaboration and alignment with the broader business strategy
• Champion the growth and evolution of the Islamic Banking franchise by delivering innovative Shariah-compliant solutions, elevating customer experiences, and setting new standards of service excellence.
• Collaborate with Corporate and Investment Banking and Wealth & Retail Banking Business Heads to design and execute impactful business development and market expansion strategies that strengthen the Bank’s competitive position.
• Embed the “One Bank” philosophy across all Islamic Banking initiatives, ensuring seamless integration of products, services, and client solutions throughout the organization.
• Partner with Group Islamic Banking teams to successfully launch new products and propositions, delivering timely market execution and maximizing business impact.
• Lead the identification, assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of risks associated with Islamic Banking products, safeguarding the Bank’s interests while supporting responsible growth.
• Provide insightful performance reporting and strategic updates to the CEO, CEO Group Islamic Banking, and Executive Committee, enabling informed decision-making and business direction.
• Ensure unwavering compliance with internal policies, regulatory directives, and governance standards set by the Central Bank, Board of Directors, Global Shariah Board, and Group Islamic Banking, while promoting the highest standards of integrity and ethical banking.

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.