Job Summary

The Global Head of Senior Managers Regime (SMR) & Conduct Rules is responsible for leading the Bank’s first line of defence (1LOD) framework to ensure compliance with UK regulatory requirements under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR).

This role oversees the governance, implementation, and continuous enhancement of SMR and Conduct Rules frameworks, ensuring clear accountability across senior leadership and adherence to regulatory expectations set by the Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority.

The position acts as a trusted advisor to Senior Management Function (SMF) holders, supporting effective and appropriate delegation, oversight, and conduct while maintaining robust regulatory engagement, documentation, and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• Support SMFs in all aspects of the SMR regime, including regulatory submissions and notifications to the UK Regulators, the PRA and FCA.
• Manage the firm’s SMR regulatory artefacts in accordance with the regulatory rules, including the Management Responsibilities Map and Statement of Responsibilities.
• Support the SMFs and their teams in applying SMR principles in their areas of responsibilities, to demonstrate appropriate control and delegation.
• Provide thought leadership and practical advice on all aspects of the Senior Managers Regime, including on organisational changes, delegation, handovers, and regulatory requirements e.g. supervisory statements.
• Support the Group’s Conduct Rules process, ensuring all required regulatory submissions and notifications are undertaken.

Business & Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner with global and regional stakeholders to ensure effective adoption of the SMR and Conduct framework.
• Evaluate the robustness of arrangements between SMFs and recommend areas for improvement where required. 
• Deliver improved service and transparency for internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and regulators.

Process & Controls

• Design, implement, execute, and maintain robust processes and controls to support SMR and Conduct activities.
• Undertake process improvement activities to address issues and inefficiencies.

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure alignment of SMR and Conduct with regulatory requirements.

• Embed a strong understanding of SMR and Conduct related regulatory obligations across the Group.

• Identify, escalate, and mitigate risk and compliance issues.

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Outstanding drafting skills, and ability to explain complex and technical issues in a clear and concise manner. 

• Outstanding attention to detail.
• Ability to make sound decisions confidently and promptly.

• Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across a broad range of stakeholders. 
• Demonstrable experience of providing practical advice on external rules and regulations. 
• Successful record of building personal credibility and managing relationships with senior stakeholders. 
• Demonstratable process design, process improvement and execution skills.

Desirable: 

• A sound understanding of international banking. 

• Prior experience of working on Compliance, Risk and Governance matters.

Qualifications

Essential

• Prior experience of working on the Senior Managers Regime and/or dealing with regulators.
• Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and embed into BAU processes.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, demonstrating high levels of discretion and integrity.
• Excellent knowledge of risk management and governance frameworks
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, including Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. 
• Ability to work collaboratively across global teams in a dynamic environment.

Desirable

• Experience of regulated roles frameworks.
• Educated to degree level or equivalent, legal education/background would be very beneficial. 

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.