Job Title Here Experience Director

Job ID: 000000123SC
Location: London, UK
Area of interest: Investment Banking
Job type: Permanent - Full Time
Work style: Hybrid Working
Opening date: 27-Sept-2022 Closing Date: 12-Oct-2022
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Title:  Associate Director, Recovery and Resolution Planning

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London, GB

Audit, Accounting & Finance
Regular Employee
Office - Full Time
3 Jul 2025

Job Description

Are you ready to shape the future of financial resilience in a global banking environment? We're seeking a proactive and strategic Associate Director to join our Recovery and Resolution Planning (RRP) team in Group Treasury. In this pivotal role, you’ll help ensure the Bank’s readiness in times of financial stress by enhancing recovery planning processes, partnering with business lines, and engaging with regulators and key stakeholders.

You'll combine analytical thinking, regulatory insight, and project management skills to deliver on high-impact initiatives that strengthen the Bank's stability and financial recovery capability.

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Business Partnership & Strategy

  • Work closely with business lines to document and enhance the Bank’s financial recovery options.
  • Update and align Early Warning Indicators across our global footprint.
  • Partner with stakeholders to optimise crisis management plans and support enhanced monitoring protocols.

🔹 Recovery Plan Execution & Process Improvement

  • Deliver key components of the Group Recovery Plan under the guidance of senior team members.
  • Manage project timelines, track progress, and mitigate risks across deliverables.
  • Implement continuous improvements to Early Warning Indicators, Recovery Options and crisis response playbooks.
  • Ensure regulatory feedback (e.g. PRA) is addressed and expectations are met.
  • Align Country Recovery Plans with Group frameworks and standards.

🔹 Leadership & Innovation

  • Lead the Solo Recovery Plan development, including committee material preparation.
  • Support crisis management testing initiatives and the rollout of a document management solution.
  • Champion innovative tools, including AI solutions, to enhance team efficiency.

Skills and Qualification

Skills

  • Strong project management and problem-solving abilities
  • Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
  • Detail-oriented but able to see the big picture
  • Capable of influencing diverse stakeholders across regions and functions
  • Comfortable working independently and under pressure
  • Team-oriented, with a collaborative mindset and integrity-driven approach

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

  • Prior experience in recovery planning, resolution, or stress testing at a G-SIB or consultancy
  • Deep understanding of PRA regulatory frameworks
  • Working knowledge of Treasury, Capital, and Liquidity functions
  • Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional projects
  • Ability to work with international teams and coach or guide where necessary

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Visit our careers website www.sc.com/careers

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