Job Summary

This role will be responsible for supporting the execution of the Markets Pakistan strategy through effective business management, governance, and risk oversight. The incumbent will partner with local and regional stakeholders to drive business initiatives, ensure regulatory compliance, strengthen control frameworks, and deliver operational efficiencies across the Markets business

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of the Markets Pakistan strategy and deliver key business initiatives in alignment with global Markets objectives.
• Drive governance, regulatory compliance, and non-financial risk management to maintain a strong control environment.
• Partner with local, regional, and global stakeholders to support business priorities and strategic decision-making.
• Oversee dealing room governance, including business continuity, capacity planning, access controls, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate audits, regulatory inspections, and second-line reviews, ensuring timely remediation of identified issues.
• Monitor, assess, and escalate key business, operational, and regulatory risks through appropriate governance forums.
• Identify and implement process improvement opportunities to enhance efficiency, controls, and business effectiveness.
• Promote a strong culture of ethics, conduct, and compliance in line with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Support cost discipline and business management activities to drive sustainable growth and operational excellence.

Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge of Markets products
• Expertise in governance, controls, and regulatory frameworks within a banking environment.
• Strong project management and change implementation capability.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across local, regional, and global teams.
• Sound understanding of risk management, audit, and regulatory requirements
• Experience in Markets COO, Business Management, Governance & Control, Risk Management, Treasury, or Markets Operations roles.

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.