Job Summary
Your role is responsible for identifying, assessing, and mitigating local risks within the Financial Markets business (interest rate, FX, and credit), with a focus on ASEAN markets including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Brunei, and Indonesia. You will collaborate closely with 2nd and 3rd line functions and Business Risk Managers (BRMs) within Markets and CIB to ensure compliance with relevant regulations and to implement robust, effective risk management strategies.
Key responsibilities include incident management (conducting root cause assessment, developing action plans, and overseeing remediation), supporting internal and external audits, and supporting the annual risk and control self-assessment (RCSA) to ensure that key risks and controls are appropriately identified, documented, and managed.
Key Responsibilities
• Coordinate with operations teams, group risk, and compliance to report any incidents to regulators, ensuring key stakeholders remain informed of developments
• Manage audit interactions and task ownership, such as responding to requests during fieldwork
• Prepare for audits by thoroughly documenting concerns and resolving them where possible prior to the audit
• Serve as a primary point of contact for audit teams when required
• Conduct risk assessments for ad-hoc events, including external event read-across
• Lead primary risk and event incident response management, including flash reporting and escalation
• Ensure all risk incidents are communicated to relevant stakeholders in accordance with policy
• Guarantee timely and accurate logging of all risks in the bank’s risk monitoring system
• Administer M7 risk event logging processes
• Complete RCSA refreshes and annual submissions
• Evaluate and escalate risk profiles to appropriate committees and forums
• Oversee control measures for Global Process Owners (GPOs)
• Supervise service management activities, including IGAs, BCP planning, TPCP, and TPRM
• Implement policies and procedures across business units, both market-specific and firm-wide
• Support the development of risk conduct within Markets, focusing on elevating functional teams to industry standards to ensure policy compliance
• Maintain oversight and ownership of all open risks related to Markets and specifically Business & Client Solutions, covering all jurisdictions requiring reporting, with emphasis on knowledge in key markets such as EMIR, MiFID, DF, and others
Qualifications
- A bachelor's degree (preferably in Accounting, Banking or Finance).
- At least 8 years relevant business/financial experience, preferably in the financial services/ financal market
Skills and Experience
- Good experience in operational risk for financial market (interest rate, FX, and credit)
- Outstanding interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Good problem solving and analytical skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to multitask and delegate effectively.
- Deliver high quality output within tight deadlines.
- Effective stakeholder management.
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.
