Job Summary

The Trading Business Risk Manager (BRM) supports the global Markets Trading business by proactively identifying, assessing, and managing non‑financial risks— including Compliance, Financial Crime, Operational and Technology, Third‑party, and Conduct risks— with a primary focus on the credit trading space. The role contributes to safeguarding business objectives, client outcomes, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.

The role strengthens risk governance, control effectiveness, and resilience by translating risk insights, emerging issues, incidents, and regulatory expectations into clear guidance, effective controls, and targeted remediation actions. Operating within a dynamic and highly regulated environment, the role enables consistent oversight, strong accountability, and informed risk-based decision‑making across the MarketsTrading franchise.

The BRM works closely with the Trading & Sales COO, Credit Trading COO, country and cluster BRMs, and Compliance (CFCR) to support risk assessments, governance forums, supervisory activities, and the ongoing maintenance of the Group risk management framework (including M7).

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong understanding of the Markets strategy and the Markets Credit Trading business model, risk profile, and operating environment.
• Proactively identify and assess non‑financial risks (including operational, technology, third‑party, and conduct risks) through ongoing engagement with the Markets Credit Trading business and COO teams.
• Design, implement, and maintain proportionate risk controls and monitoring mechanisms to ensure material risks are mitigated within approved risk appetite, with accurate and timely documentation in M7.
• Perform risk assessments arising from business activities, incidents, control failures, or emerging risk themes, and prepare risk papers and submissions for relevant governance forums and committees as required.
• Lead and coordinate internal and external audit activities, as well as Compliance (CFCR) reviews, working with the Credit Trading COO and relevant stakeholders to identify control gaps, agree remediation actions, and enhance the overall control environment.
• Support the execution and continuous improvement of the Trading supervisory framework and related second‑line oversight activities, including (but not limited to) Market Abuse and Conflict of Interest assessments.
• Escalate material or emerging risks, control deficiencies, and adverse trends to appropriate stakeholders, including the Credit Trading COO, Markets COO, country or cluster BRMs, OTCR, and CFCR, ensuring timely and effective management action.
• Act as a subject matter expert for M7, providing high‑quality management information and risk insights to Trading BRM leadership, senior Markets business stakeholders, and relevant risk and compliance functions.
• Support reviews of operational losses, near misses, and other risk events impacting financial performance, reputation, or customer outcomes, contributing to root cause analysis and sustainable remediation.
• Assist in the preparation of Credit Trading risk matters for senior governance forums, including the Markets Non‑Financial Risk Committee (NFRC), Trading NFR and Trading Metrics Forum.

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.

Key stakeholders

• Trading BRM
• CFCR
• Markets COO Stakeholders across business and geographies
• OTCR
• Internal Audit (GIA)

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent, with experience in finance risk, governance, or control‑focused roles.
• 7 + years of relevant experience in non‑financial risk, business risk management, governance, compliance, or control roles within Markets, Trading, or a comparable regulated financial services environment.
• Strong understanding of enterprise risk management frameworks, including risk identification, assessment, control design, issue management, and governance reporting, with hands‑on experience maintaining risk and control inventories (e.g. M7 or equivalent systems).
• Demonstrated experience supporting or delivering second‑line oversight, including supervisory frameworks, thematic risk reviews, control testing, and monitoring of key risk indicators.
• Proven ability to analyse complex business processes and risk events, identify root causes, and translate risk insights into clear, actionable control improvements and remediation plans.
• Experience supporting audit, regulatory or compliance reviews, including preparation of documentation, coordination with business stakeholders, responding to findings, and tracking closure of agreed actions.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage credibly with front‑office, COO, Compliance, OTCR, and senior management across geographies.
• High attention to detail with the ability to produce clear, concise, and defensible management information, risk papers, and governance submissions suitable for senior risk forums.
• Strong analytical and technical capability, including advanced Excel skills for risk analysis and reporting, and proficiency in PowerPoint for structured, executive‑ready communications.
• Self‑driven, resilient, and comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, ambiguous, and highly regulated environment, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement and professional development.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Analytical and administrative
• Excel Analysis
• PowerPoint preparation
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills

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.