Job Description
Are you passionate about risk, governance and making complex businesses run better? We’re looking for a Prime Business Risk Manager to play a key role in supporting the Prime business with non-financial risk management.
In this role, you’ll work closely with Trading & Sales COO, Business Risk Managers and Compliance stakeholders to strengthen risk governance, assess and manage risk, support business analysis, and help maintain key risk processes and controls. This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys working across teams, solving problems, and driving high standards of conduct, governance and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the identification, assessment and mitigation of non-financial risks across the Prime business.
- Review, create and enhance risk monitors and controls, including writing risk assessments where required.
- Support the annual Prime RCSA and other bisinesses
- MARA assessments.
- Lead the Prime Non-Financial Risk Forum, ensuring actions are taken to address any gaps, deficiencies or control weaknesses.
- Escalate elevated risks to relevant senior stakeholders, including Markets COO, Cluster BRM, Global BRMs and Compliance.
- Partner with BRM, COO and wider stakeholder groups to improve existing controls and strengthen the overall control environment.
- Review operational errors, including losses, gains, near misses, reputational matters and other risk events.
- Support Audit and Compliance reviews.Assist with non-financial risk management activities across other Markets businesses where needed.
- Act as a trusted partner to Prime Front Office, Middle Office, Operations, Compliance, Operational Risk and other stakeholders across business areas and geographies.
Skills and Qualification
- Strong experience in risk management, governance, controls or a related business management environment.
- Good understanding of risk frameworks, governance processes and control environments.
- Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret information, identify issues and recommend practical solutions.
- Confident communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Advanced Excel skills and the ability to prepare clear, structured analysis and presentations.
- Proactive, collaborative and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with varied priorities.
- Willingness to learn, grow and continuously improve.
- Strong conduct mindset, with a commitment to ethical behaviour, regulatory standards and doing the right thing.English proficiency required.
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.
