Job Summary

As the Risk Director for the new Stablecoin Joint-Venture (JV), reporting to the CRO (Chief Risk Officer), you will be responsible for upholding the integrity of risk management by ensuring that operational risks are properly assessed. You will ensure that risk/return and cost/benefit decisions are made transparently based on thorough assessments, in accordance with JV's standards and Risk Appetite.

The role requires providing practical guidance on Risk, including Operational Risk Policy & Standard, consistently. You will identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks in the JV's daily operations. Working with the first line of defence, you will ensure key control concerns and risk events are understood and escalated quickly. You will drive thorough root cause analysis of risk events and challenge remedial plans by first line of defence (1LOD) Risk/Control Owners. You will ensure changes in products, services, and processes comply with relevant policies and oversee risk ratings per the RCSA Framework by first line of defence.

Key Responsibilities

• Risk Integrity: Ensure operational risks are properly assessed, and risk/return and cost/benefit decisions are made transparently based on thorough assessments, in line with the JV’s standards and Risk Appetite.
• Guidance on Risk Implementation: Provide practical implementation guidance on Risk, including Operational Risk (OR) Policy & Standard, in an effective and consistent manner.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate risks related to the daily operations of the JV.
• Collaboration with 1LOD: Work with the first line of defence (1LOD) to ensure concerns on key controls, operational risk events, and their impacts are understood and escalated promptly.
• Root Cause Analysis: Drive comprehensive, high-quality root cause analysis of operational risk events and provide robust challenges on remedial action plans proposed by 1LOD Risk/Control Owners.
• Policy Compliance: Ensure new and material changes in products/services/processes conform with the Transaction Processing Policy, Change Management Policy, and Product Governance Policy.
• Risk Control Monitoring: Oversee and monitor the execution of inherent and residual risk ratings as per the Risk Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) Framework by 1LOD.
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensure local regulatory requirements are met pertaining to risk, including operational risk management, prudential standards, and governance and operational standards.

Key stakeholders
Engage relevant stakeholders to raise awareness of Operational, Technology and Cyber Risks and how these are managed in the JV.

Internal
•    Members of JV Management Team
•    Peak Chief Risk Officer
•    Group Operational, Technology and Cyber Risk Team
•    Group Internal Audit

External
•    Regulators in Hong Kong 
•    External Auditors

Skills and Experience

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.