Job Description

We are looking for an Associate, Board Operations to support the effective governance of the Board and its Committees, with a strong focus on Board Risk Committees. This role is central to ensuring high-quality, well-governed Board processes and seamless meeting operations in a regulated, fast-paced environment.

You will work closely with Committee Secretaries, senior leaders, and key stakeholders to deliver accurate, timely, and well-controlled Board materials while upholding the highest standards of integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism.

Key Responsibilities

• Support Committee Secretaries in the end-to-end coordination of Board and Board Committee meetings, including agendas, timelines, papers, minutes, and logistics
• Ensure robust Board Operations controls, procedures, and governance processes are followed consistently and accurately
• Coordinate the preparation, distribution, reconciliation, and filing of Board and Committee materials, including use of Board Intelligence
• Act as a key point of contact for Board and Committee meeting queries and information requests from internal and external stakeholders, including auditors and regulators
• Support the timely provision of committee papers to regulators in line with agreed protocols
• Review and support paper authors to ensure compliance with governance and documentation standards
• Maintain Board and Committee calendars, mailboxes, procedures, templates, and assurance checks
• Build strong, trusted relationships with Board members, senior management, PAs, IT, suppliers, and support teams
• Provide cross-cover within the Board Operations team and contribute to a collaborative, one-team culture
• Support subsidiary Board and Committee scheduling and logistics
• Handle confidential information with discretion and professionalism
• Proactively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, including digital and AI-enabled ways of working

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Exceptional attention to detail and strong organisational skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work calmly under pressure
• High levels of integrity, discretion, and professionalism in a confidential environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and a collaborative, team-oriented mindset
• Proactive, reliable, and adaptable with a solutions-focused approach
• Strong IT skills, particularly in MS Word and PowerPoint; experience with Board portals is an advantage
• Flexibility to support meetings outside standard business hours when required

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar Board, governance, company secretarial, or senior administrative role
• Experience working in a regulated or professional services environment is desirable
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)

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.