Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

Operational Risk & Governance

• Serve as the first-line risk partner for Cash and Trade Operations.
• Execute and monitor risk controls, ensuring compliance with Group and local regulatory standards.
• Lead periodic risk reviews, audits, and control assessments.
• Provide oversight on incident escalation, root cause analysis, and remediation plans.

Stakeholder Engagement & Advisory

• Collaborate with Operations, Risk, and Compliance teams to drive a strong control culture.
• Support governance forums with relevant data, reports, and risk updates.
• Coordinate business continuity, regulatory reviews, and control testing activities.

Risk Monitoring & Control Framework

• Maintain accurate Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), Key Control Indicators (KCIs), and operational risk registers.
• Challenge and validate risk assessments, identify control gaps, and recommend enhancements.
• Support automation and process improvements to mitigate operational risk exposure.

Skills and Experience

• Blend of operations and business risk experience — must understand both perspectives.Proven ability to manage first-line risk in a banking or financial services environment.
• Strong eye for detail with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Familiarity with risk frameworks (Enterprise Risk Management Framework (ERMF), Operations Risk (OR), compliance) and hands-on operational controls.
• Prior experience within the Bank system or financial operations is highly preferred

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Risk, Finance, or a related field.
• Risk-related certifications an added advantage (e.g., Certified in Risk Management Assurance (CRMA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Financial Risk Manager (FRM)) are advantageous.

Competencies

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.

Recruitment Assessments

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