Job Summary

The Lead, Sustainable Finance (‘SF’) Governance, Corporate & Investment Banking (‘CIB’) Coverage, Africa & the Middle East (‘AME’) will be responsible for driving the implementation of product governance and regulatory requirements for SF across the AME. They will serve as the primary point of contact for all governance-related aspects of the SF CIB Coverage business in the region.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the execution of product governance frameworks and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements specific to SF.
• Act as the first line of defence, managing governance processes and protocols to ensure robust oversight and control within the SF space.
• Engage and collaborate with internal stakeholders, including Compliance, Audit, Risk, and Legal departments, to ensure alignment and adherence to governance standards.
• Foster strong relationships with external stakeholders, including regulators and relevant governmental bodies, to stay abreast of regulatory changes and ensure the Bank's compliance with local and international standards.
• Report to regulatory bodies in the respective AME markets, as and when required.
• Provide expert guidance and support to the Sustainable Finance CIB Coverage teams, ensuring that all governance and regulatory requirements are met effectively.
• Develop and implement best practices for sustainable finance governance, continuously improving processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Monitor and report on governance activities, ensuring transparency and accountability in the management of sustainable finance products and services.

Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of environmental and socials risks.
• Ability to promote good teamwork, collaboration, and management of conflict across stakeholders. 
• Ability to independently drive initiatives with minimum hands-on supervision.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Delivery and execution focused.
• Ability to work with lots of moving parts and complexity.
• Highly skilled in creation of reports and presentations.

Qualifications

• Education – Bachelor’s degree.
• Languages – Fluent in English & Arabic

Competencies

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.

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