Key Responsibilities

Lead a regional team of specialist advisors providing first-line risk management support to Client Coverage (Financial Institutions “FI”/ Banks & Broker Dealers, “FI / BBD”), with accountability for strengthening governance, control frameworks, and risk discipline across the FI / BBD portfolio in the region.

Drive enhancement of non-financial risk management (conduct, regulatory, financial crime, operational, reputational), while embedding structured advisory capability to improve decision-making, portfolio quality, and lifecycle risk management.

Strategy
•    Support the Global Head of FI Client Risk Advisory and relevant regional/global leadership to deliver the target operating model for Client Risk Advisory, ensuring business strategy is in line with Risk Appetite and parameters. 
•    Provide expert risk, control and governance guidance and oversight to senior stakeholders leading the FI BBD segment and their teams, and support execution of relevant strategies. 
•    Bring strategic thought and vision on how FI / BBD landscapes are changing, where areas of international growth lie, and how this affects the portfolio. 
•    Drive FI / BBD-owned strategic initiatives and play a visible leadership role in strategic initiatives that cut across the segment. Develop the Advisory offering to FI / BBD clients and related Coverage Bankers, driving a more assertive first-line approach to owning risk, controls and governance. This includes improved discipline on record-keeping, heightened supervision through tailored risk-relevant dashboards (self-service and, where required, mandatory), and positioning advisory as a valued peer to Coverage Bankers.

Business
•    Create a culture of trusted advice to Coverage Bankers focused on achieving overall correspondent risk performance targets in line with effective risk management principles and the Bank’s risk, control and process frameworks. 
•    Support Coverage Bankers in developing their knowledge of Correspondent Banking, Fintech / NPM and related product offerings of the Bank. 
•    Strengthen governance oversight and the frontline control environment to enable a high-quality, well-governed and risk-appropriate client portfolio. 

Processes
•    Lead regular review of risk processes to identify challenges and opportunities for improvement. 
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to streamline FI / BBD risk processes and reduce duplication, while maintaining control effectiveness. 
•    Collaborate across the organisation including CFCR, CLDM, IMO, FI / BBD Risk and product partners to constructively challenge and improve processes to acquire and service FI / BBD clients effectively. 
•    Continuously improve design and execution of processes critical to success of FI / FI / BBD, with a focus on onboarding, offboarding and active supervision through the client lifecycle.    

People & Talent
•    Work closely with colleagues and stakeholders to enhance the quality and timeliness of deliverables. 
•    Provide oversight to ensure holders of critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified, with effective supervision to mitigate relevant risks. 
•    Support ongoing training and development, career development and succession planning within the team. 
•    Act as leader and mentor to team members across locations; role-model leadership by influence. 
•    Assess team structure and capacity plans and make recommendations on execution to the Global Head of FI Client Risk Advisory. 

Risk Management
•    Accountable for first-line ownership of non-financial risk outcomes across the Americas FI / BBD portfolio, including risk acceptance quality and governance decisions
•    Take the initiative regarding regulatory, reputational and ethical matters.. 
•    Coach Coverage Bankers on how to better manage risks within the business and ensure key risk issues are managed and remediated holistically, with adequate escalation to relevant regional / country heads and governance committees as appropriate. 
•    Work closely with CFCR, Banking, in particular Trade and Cash Management (including payments) product partners on emerging trends and high-risk transactions and activities to ensure client, product and CFCR processes and controls adapt to the rapid evolution of the segment. 
•    Participate with leadership and subject matter expertise in the development of MIS and dashboards to support better-informed decision making and proactive portfolio supervision. 
•    Contribute to development of training for Coverage Bankers to improve portfolio risk awareness. 
•    Advocate innovation (including establishing or extending tools) to address increasing complexity of risk management in the segment. 
•    Develop a culture to ensure team members comply with relevant policies, processes and regulations. 

Governance
•    In collaboration with the CBOC/CBOG Secretariats ensure good governance of the portfolio and ensure the team is conversant and compliant with the governance procedures. Ensure that the team is enabled to effectively provide advice within the governance framework. 
•    Preparation and presentation of high quality, risk relevant papers and reports to senior management and governance bodies across the bank on the relevant industry, client and portfolio issues. These should be constantly aiming to provide content to enable good decisions.
•    Oversee and support Group and Regional projects that have an impact on the FI / BBD Segment. 
•    Support internal audits and regulatory exams.

Qualifications

Education     
•    Bachelor’s degree required with advance education preferred
Training     
•    10+ years of work experience in Correspondent Banking, Payments, Fintech.
•    Familiarity with PRA and other country regulatory requirements 
•    Experience and knowledge of banking products and services in Financial Institutions and Transaction Banking
•    Relevant Project and Change Management, Compliance, Business Management, Strategy skills desirable
•    Experience of working with various stakeholders
Membership     
•    ACAMS, ICA, Risk and Compliance related
Languages     
•    English

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 200,000 USD to 250,000 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.

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