Job Summary

The Business Manager & Planning Lead for the Americas Markets organization plays a pivotal role in driving strategy execution, business oversight, governance, and senior‑leadership enablement across the region. Based in the New York Dealing Room, this role partners closely with the Americas Markets Head, Markets US COO, and broader Markets leadership to ensure seamless business operations, delivery of strategic priorities, and effective engagement with internal and external stakeholders.

This position requires a proactive, solutions‑driven individual who thrives in fast‑paced environments, can synthesize complex information, and can manage a wide breadth of responsibilities — from supervising business risk processes to preparing senior leaders for client, regulatory, and media interactions. The ideal candidate is a connector and critical thinker who ensures that strategic, operational, and governance requirements are executed to a high standard.

If you're a connector, a critical thinker, and someone who thrives in dynamic environments—this could be the perfect role for you.

Key Responsibilities

🔹 Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Support development, alignment, and tracking of the integrated Americas Markets strategy, ensuring consistency with cluster COO, USMT and Group priorities.
• Drive cross‑functional coordination (COO, CFCR, Legal, Product, Operations) to support new business initiatives, regulatory projects, and strategic programs (e.g. digital asset, broker dealer, stablecoin initiatives).
• Prepare strategy papers, research insights, briefing notes, talking points, and materials for leadership forums, client engagements, and regulatory interactions.
• Ensure senior leadership is equipped with accurate, timely information to make critical decisions.

🔹 Governance & Risk Management

• Facilitate key governance forums including Business Risk Forums, Cluster Conduct Forums, and USMT‑related committee deliverables.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate operational, strategic, and regulatory risks impacting the Americas Markets business.
• Coordinate RCSA activities, audit readiness, regulatory change implementation, and adherence to Group policies.
• Manage product governance activities, including review and enablement of new product initiatives.
• Ensure effective supervision frameworks (including oversight of Series 24 Supervisors) are maintained and well‑documented.

Day-to-Day Tasks

🔹 Operational Excellence & Business Enablement

• Drive operational controls, licensing management, capacity planning, cost oversight, and business continuity planning.
• Support efficient Dealing Room management including processes, workflow optimization, and adherence to risk and control standards.
• Continuously review local processes and drive alignment to Group frameworks where appropriate.
• Ensure timely, accurate reporting in partnership with Operations and other functional teams.

🔹 Stakeholder Engagement & Leadership Support

• Serve as a key coordination point for senior leadership across Markets, ensuring progress and execution of priorities and follow‑up on action items.
• Track progress of major initiatives, highlight delays or key risks, and work with teams to drive resolution.
• Support employee engagement, talent initiatives, culture programs, and succession‑planning activities across the region.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or certifications (CAMS, CFA, FRM) advantageous.
• 5–8+ years of experience in Financial Markets, COO/business management, risk/control, operations, or regulatory advisory.
• Experience supporting senior executives and preparing materials for client, regulator, or media engagements.
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint; strong attention to detail in producing documents and presentations.
• Knowledge of US Broker‑Dealer and FINRA regulations
• Proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 141,400 USD to 194,403 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations.

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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