Job Summary

Key Responsibilities

•    Support the CEO’s office for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) to  deliver all regional priorities across strategy, workflow efficiencies, cluster synergies, risk management & governance, and monitoring & transparency.
•    Support risk management and process improvements across EMEA
•    Support project delivery across EMEA
•    EMEA regulatory, structural and org knowledge
•    Provide critical business insights through data analysis.
•    Liaise with technology and operations teams to support process improvement, cost transparency, and digital enablement.
•    Support in providing oversight of regulatory compliance, risk controls, and audit readiness across EMEA.
•    Support preparation of papers / slides / speaking notes for submission for various meetings.
•    Coordinate budget reconciliation, and stakeholder communications to ensure alignment with group and business priorities.
•    Organise regular meetings for CEO’s top team, townhalls or other meetings to ensure close communication and alignment across the clusters.

Regulatory & Business Conduct
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Skills and Experience

•    Effective Communication
•    Planning, Tactical & Strategic
•    Project Management
•    Data Gathering & Reporting 
•    Risk Management 
•    Organisational Governance

Qualifications

•    Experience in at least two of operations, first-line risk, compliance or legal in FI’s in EMEA
•    Good understanding of Corporate & Investment Banking, and Wealth & Retail Banking  
•    Good understanding of the SCB Network/Geographies
•    Understanding of Risk, Compliance, Governance and related matters
•    Prior experience in Project / Change Management preferred
•    Proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups

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.