Job Summary

The Chief Product Owner (CPO) for Trading Controls at Standard Chartered holds a critical leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the comprehensive product vision and strategy for Trading Controls across global Markets. This position involves providing decisive leadership to cross-functional technology teams and managing a team of Trading Control Product Owners dedicated to building and continuously enhancing robust, scalable, and fully auditable trading control solutions. The role ensures that all product initiatives align with the Bank's risk appetite and compliance standards, addressing the complex regulatory environment while driving operational excellence in trading control processes.

Collaborating closely with the Lead Business Risk Manager (Global Product Owner), the CPO prioritises key strategic initiatives to improve the effectiveness of sales and trading controls. This role drives innovation through streamlined, integrated control frameworks that reduce operational complexity, mitigate risk, and support sustainable business growth. The CPO is pivotal in fostering a culture of accountability, agility, and continuous improvement aligned with the Bank's commitment to integrity and client-centric solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and articulate a clear, forward-looking product vision for Trading Controls that supports the Bank’s overall Markets strategy.
• Deliver a well-defined product roadmap and target-state capability framework that supports scalable and auditable control solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders across risk, technology, and business units to design innovative, compliant, and efficient control mechanisms that meet evolving regulatory and operational requirements.
• Prioritise and manage the Trading Controls product backlog collaboratively with the Lead Business Risk Manager, balancing risk, business needs, and resource allocations.
• Set, implement, and maintain standards for preventive and detective control design, ensuring automation and traceability through the control lifecycle.
• Mobilise and empower technology delivery squads to execute on product strategies effectively, ensuring timely, high-quality delivery of control enhancements.
• Champion simplification, standardisation, and automation initiatives to enhance control efficiency and reduce operational risk.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of trading controls, using insights to drive continuous improvement.
• Lead and mentor a team of Product Owners, fostering a high-performance environment and developing their capabilities in product management and control frameworks.
• Establish and maintain rigorous product governance standards, ensuring transparency and accountability in decision-making.
• Ensure all control solutions comply fully with Group risk policies, regulatory requirements, and internal audit mandates.
• Identify, escalate, and manage gaps or risks in control delivery, implementing corrective actions as necessary.
• Promote a strong risk-aware culture throughout the Trading Controls function, embedding robust control principles into everyday practices.
• Provide senior leadership with executive-level reporting on product progress, risk exposure, and strategic decisions, ensuring stakeholders remain informed and aligned.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Strong experience and deep understanding of financial markets, particularly in trading environments, with a solid grasp of controls frameworks and market business operations.
• Proven background in risk and control functions, with hands-on exposure to the first line of defense responsibilities within banking.
• Expertise in designing, translating, and implementing control frameworks into effective product solutions that meet regulatory compliance and operational needs.
• Demonstrated skills in product strategy development, roadmap planning, and agile product management, with an ability to drive complex product initiatives from concept through delivery.
• Comprehensive knowledge of risk management principles and regulatory frameworks relevant to trading and market risk.
• An extensive understanding of market products, trading processes, and associated operational workflows enabling an ability to anticipate risk and control impacts.
• A strong commitment to process improvement, operational simplification, and automation initiatives to enhance control efficiency and reduce risk.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and build consensus among diverse, cross-functional teams.
• A collaborative, solution-oriented mindset with a passion for fostering high-performance, inclusive teams.

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.

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