Job Summary

BAU Overview

Provide expert, risk-based support to business and/or functional teams on digital asset activities, ensuring consistent application of frameworks, regulatory integration, and capability development across the enterprise.

Digital Assets (DA) Subject Matter Expert – DA Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (CFCR) Hub

The primary responsibilities aim to ensure consistent interpretation of regulatory requirements, knowledge sharing, and effective training delivery, while advocating for digital asset compliance within the broader framework of the DA CFCR Hub.

Job Responsibilities

Business & Processes:
•    Deliver timely, risk-informed advice on digital asset products, clients, and transactions.
•    Apply enterprise frameworks, policies, and standards in business-specific contexts.
•    Support the design and review of controls within business activities, product approval, and governance.
•    Identify emerging risks and escalate complex scenarios.
•    Partner with the business to embed digital asset compliance aspects.
•    Ensure alignment with enterprise digital asset compliance outcomes.
•    Execute responsibilities under delegation from Risk Framework Owners for Compliance, Conduct, and Financial Crime risks.
•    Build and maintain effective policies/processes to address compliance risks, aligning with Group and regulatory requirements.
•    Provide governance and oversight over the implementation of compliance-related policies and standards for digital assets.
•    Provide direction and challenge to business units to ensure compliance with policies and standards.
 
Risk Management & Governance:
•    Act as second line Risk Owner for relevant processes.
•    Collaborate with counterparts to identify and mitigate horizon risks.
•    Ensure effective management of digital assets matters and regulatory issues.
•    Support a program for compliance monitoring and assurance for digital assets and provide advice on risk management frameworks and outcomes.
•    Ensure timely identification, assessment, and dissemination of regulatory changes and risks.
•    Liaise with internal audit and assurance functions to address identified weaknesses.
•    Attend governance meetings and provide reports to senior management.
•    Escalate potential risks and issues to senior management and propose control effectiveness and efficiency improvements.
•    Support management information and trackers to ensure issues related to digital assets are tracked and reported.

Job Requirements

• University Graduate or equivalent degree preferred.
• 8+ years working in Financial Institutions and/or FinTech Entities in Compliance Functions.
• Experience assessing and managing compliance risk associated with Correspondent Banking. 
• Ability to foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level ensuring open collaborative environment.
• Ability to work independently and deliver efficient outcomes working through complexity and ambiguity.
• Demonstrated relationship building skills - both internal and external across multiple jurisdictions.
• High level of integrity and professionalism with strong planning and organisational skills
• Professional Accreditation such as Enhanced Competency Framework (ECF) under the HK Institute of Bankers (HKIB) would be an advantage.

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.