Job Description
Are you passionate about risk management, regulatory excellence, and driving meaningful change within Global Markets Operations? We're looking for a Director, Global Markets Regulatory Operations Business Risk Manager to help strengthen the risk and control environment across Regulatory Operations.
In this role, you'll partner with Operations, Business, Risk, Compliance and Audit teams to identify, assess and mitigate operational and conduct risks. You'll play a key role in ensuring robust governance, regulatory compliance, operational resilience and effective control oversight across a complex and dynamic operating environment.
This is an excellent opportunity for a risk professional who thrives on collaboration, problem-solving and influencing stakeholders across a global organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide risk oversight across Global Markets Regulatory Operations, including transaction reporting, regulatory controls, reconciliations and exception management.
- Support the design, review and enhancement of risk and control frameworks, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and business priorities.
- Lead and coordinate risk assessments, control reviews and read-across analysis of internal and external events.
- Manage and support incident response, issue remediation and escalation activities, ensuring timely communication and resolution.
- Act as a key contact for internal audits, regulatory reviews and assurance activities, coordinating responses and tracking actions to closure.
- Drive governance activities, including risk reporting, committee materials, management information and issue tracking.
- Partner with stakeholders to strengthen risk awareness, embed a strong control culture and share lessons learned from incidents and reviews.
- Support operational resilience, business continuity and third-party risk initiatives impacting Regulatory Operations.
- Ensure effective implementation of policy, procedural and control changes into business-as-usual operations.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Operational Risk Management, Risk & Control Management, or Business Risk Management within Financial Services.
- Deep understanding of Regulatory Operations, regulatory reporting and control oversight frameworks.
- Experience supporting audits, regulatory reviews, issue remediation and governance forums.
- Proven ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships across business, operations and control functions.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess risk, identify themes and recommend practical solutions.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence engaging senior stakeholders.
Desirable Qualifications
- University degree or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience within Global Markets, Capital Markets Operations or Regulatory Reporting environments.
- Knowledge of operational resilience, business continuity and regulatory change programmes.
What We're Looking For
- A collaborative team player who builds strong partnerships.
- Someone who demonstrates courage, integrity and sound judgement.
- A proactive problem-solver who can navigate ambiguity and drive outcomes.
- A continuous learner with a passion for improving processes and controls.
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.
