Job Summary

•    The Lead, Data Solutions and Advisory is responsible for directing and delivering complex data quality and data solutions initiatives across Group Functions Finance, Risk and CFCR, including initiatives delivered as part of major Group wide data, regulatory and transformation programmes, in alignment with the Group Data Strategy and BCBS 239 principles.
•    Reporting directly to the Head of Data Solutions and Advisory, and operating in a matrix reporting relationship to the Head of Data Governance, Risk and Compliance, the role acts as a senior subject matter expert and delivery lead, accountable for translating strategy into executable solutions. This includes designing, implementing and overseeing data quality frameworks, controls and remediation initiatives with material impact on business and regulatory outcomes, while ensuring alignment to Group data governance standards and risk controls.
•    In addition, this Lead role serves as the overall India location lead for Data Solutions and Advisory, providing leadership, oversight and coordination of all function-related activities within India, and acting as the primary point of contact for local stakeholders and regulatory matters.
•    The role works closely with senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, CFCR and the Chief Data Office to influence decisions, resolve issues and drive change, ensuring data used for regulatory, risk and management reporting is reliable, timely and fit for purpose. The Lead also plays a key role in coaching teams, embedding data stewardship practices and cascading change outcomes across the function.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Define and execute the Data Solutions strategy with a focus on data quality, stewardship, and fitness for purpose across Group Functions Finance, Risk and CFCR
•    Align data quality objectives with the bank’s Group Data Strategy, ensuring risk data aggregation and reporting capabilities meet BCBS 239 and other supervisory expectations.
•    Champion innovation and automation in data solutions, including tooling for data quality monitoring, lineage, and metadata management.
•    Benchmark industry best practices and embed them into the bank’s data operating model.

Business
•    Act as data steward for Group Functions Finance, Risk and CFCR data domains, ensuring business stakeholders have trusted, accurate, and timely data for decision-making. 
•    Partner with stakeholders to ensure business requirements are translated into data quality controls and solutions delivery.
•    Support the development of analytics, regulatory reporting, and management information by ensuring the underlying data meets agreed quality thresholds.
•    Serve as the key liaison for business leadership on all matters relating to data quality and remediation.

Processes
•    Establish and maintain data quality frameworks, controls, and KPIs to measure and improve data reliability.
•    Oversee root cause analysis and remediation of data quality issues, embedding sustainable fixes into business-as-usual processes.
•    Maintain authoritative data dictionaries, glossaries, metadata, and lineage to improve data transparency and consistency.
•    Drive automation of controls to reduce manual reconciliation and reporting effort.

People & Talent
•    Lead and develop a high-performing team of data professionals within the Data Solutions function.
•    Promote a strong data stewardship culture across Group Functions Finance, Risk and CFCR, building awareness and accountability among business users.
•    Provide training and knowledge-sharing to enhance data quality and governance capabilities across Group Functions Finance, Risk and CFCR.
•    Act as a role model in demonstrating the bank’s values and behaviours in the context of data ethics and responsible data use.

Risk Management
•    Ensure data risks within scope are effectively identified, assessed, and managed in line with the bank’s operational risk framework.
•    Implement controls to mitigate risks arising from data inaccuracies, incompleteness, or delays, particularly in regulatory and risk reporting.
•    Provide oversight of data-related incidents, ensuring timely escalation, remediation, and lessons learned.
•    Support the bank’s ability to produce risk data in stress conditions as required under BCBS 239.

Governance
•    Establish and enforce data ownership, stewardship, and accountability frameworks across Group Functions Finance, Risk and CFCR.
•    Ensure alignment of Data Solutions with Group Data Governance policies, standards, and taxonomies.
•    Provide management and Board-level committees with reporting on data quality metrics, issues, and remediation progress.
•    Partner with peer domain heads (Data Strategy, Data Architecture, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Data Operations) to deliver an integrated data management approach.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders
•    GCFO Finance and Treasury
•    GFS Reporting and Data Global Process Owners and Managers
•    Country and Regional CFOs
•    Business and Functions Data Stewards
•    Risk and CFCR
•    Chief Data Office

Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in GCFO Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Skills and Experience

•    Big Data Management and Analytics
•    Organises, administers and governs large volumes of structured and unstructured big data.
•    Leverages the right analytical techniques and tools to analyse big data and uncover information to be applied to the Bank’s and/or clients’ business context.
•    Data Governance and Management
•    Develops, implements and practices guidelines, laws, and regulations across the Bank for the handling of client and transaction data at various stages in its lifecycle.
•    Financial and Accounting Systems
•    Knowledge of functions, features and capabilities of financial and accounting systems; ability to use financial and accounting applications specific to the organization for business and/or regulatory purposes
•    Financial Products and Markets
•    Understand and apply knowledge pertaining to SCB customer segments, product groups and the linkages of product vs. capital and liquidity
•    Change Management
•    Assesses change needs and stakeholders’ readiness, identifies change objectives, develops and executes on interventions to help colleagues adapt to major organisational changes (incl. strategy, organisational structure, culture, processes, technology).

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Data Management, Information Systems, Finance, or related discipline
12+ years of experience in data governance, data quality, or data management within banking or financial services

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.