Are you ready to take on a global leadership role in regulatory change management? We are seeking an exceptional leader to join our Risk and Conduct, Financial Crime, and Compliance (CFCC) COO team as a Global Process Owner (GPO) for Managing Regulatory Change (MRC GPO). This Executive Director role is pivotal in ensuring operational effectiveness in managing regulatory changes affecting Risk and CFCC policies and processes.

This role could be based in London, Singapore, Poland. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you only select a country where the role is based

Why Join Us?

As the MRC GPO, you will play a critical role in:

• Strategic Leadership: Driving initiatives that balance effectiveness and efficiency in regulatory change management.
• Transformational Impact: Professionalizing the way regulations are identified and managed to enhance compliance standards.
• Global Influence: Leading a diverse, multi-location team and engaging with key regulatory bodies worldwide.
• Innovation & Agility: Championing new Ways of Working (nWOW) through agile methodologies to streamline compliance processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement regulatory change strategies that align with organizational objectives.
• Stay ahead of industry trends to enhance regulatory change management efficiency.
• Build capabilities to proactively identify and respond to regulatory and business model changes.
• Own and oversee the end-to-end regulatory change management process.
• Ensure robust risk management in alignment with the Group’s Process Universe.
• Implement Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) to monitor control effectiveness.
• Lead a team to conduct horizon scanning and curate regulatory updates for stakeholders.
• Standardize regulatory publication taxonomy and establish clear ownership structures.
• Promote a culture of integrity, trust, and risk awareness.
• Embed a Here for Good culture and reinforce compliance with ethical and regulatory standards.
• Drive engagement across stakeholders to improve regulatory risk awareness and ownership.
• Uphold and reinforce independence of the Risk and CFCC function.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and policies.
• Act decisively on risk and control weaknesses, escalating when necessary.

Our Ideal candidate

• 10+ years of experience in banking or financial services.
• Expertise in regulatory identification and change management.
• Proficiency in agile ways of working and delivering transformation.
• Strong data management, analytical, and MI design skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, relationship-building, and influencing abilities.
• Ability to collaborate across geographies and cultures.
• Highly structured, disciplined, and results-oriented.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, and resilience.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Acumen & Ethics
• Cross-functional Collaboration & Organisational Governance
• Change Management & Risk Assessment
• Effective Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
• Deep Understanding of the Regulatory Environment in 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.