Job Summary

The Risk Business Planning Manager plays a pivotal role in supporting the Chief Risk Officers for Wealth & Retail Banking (WRB) and Greater China & North Asia & ASEAN (GCNA & ASEAN) as a trusted strategic partner. This role is instrumental in shaping, implementing, and overseeing the risk management strategies across diverse regions, including WRB, GCNA, and ASEAN. With leadership responsibility over a team exceeding 600 professionals, the incumbent ensures operational excellence by guiding the team to achieve defined KPIs and adhering to the annual budget. The ideal candidate will exhibit a strong blend of strategic insight, operational discipline, and exceptional stakeholder management capabilities. They will confidently engage and influence senior executives, regulators, and internal collaborators, fostering a culture of risk awareness and adherence to governance. This position requires an individual capable of driving transformational initiatives within a dynamic and fast-paced banking environment, who thrives in steering complex risk frameworks that align with global banking standards and regional regulatory demands.

Moreover, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute significantly to the resilience and integrity of the bank's operations, ensuring sustainable growth and compliance in an increasingly complex global financial landscape. The Risk Business Planning Manager will be a key enabler in embedding risk culture and promoting proactive risk mitigation strategies throughout the organisation.

Job Responsibilities

• Play an active role within the WRB, GCNA and ASEAN Risk Management Team (RMT), supporting the CRO, WRB and CRO, GCNA & ASEAN to deliver business objectives and build team awareness of the business value created.
• Monitor and track progress of deliverables including key initiatives and projects that support the achievement of the strategic agenda.
• Support the CRO, WRB and CRO, GCNA & ASEAN in all aspects of running the WRB, GCNA & ASEAN Risk function.
• Drive alignment and engagement of key stakeholders in Business, Functions and their BPMs
• Take the lead in driving continuous improvement, e.g. identifying and executing ad-hoc improvements to processes.
• Set appropriate tone and expectations for the WRB, GCNA & ASEAN Risk teams and work in collaboration with relevant stakeholders, including risk and control partners.
• Support the development of talent to ensure a high-quality succession pipeline at all levels and ongoing development activities that focus on the identified high performing and high potential individuals within the businesses. Focus on inter-region and global talent opportunities and pipelines.
• Manage agenda, prepare materials and track action items for various meetings including WRB Risk Committee, WRB, GCNA & ASEAN RMT, Risk Leadership Team and other meetings.
• Review materials submitted to the CRO, WRB and CRO, GCNA & ASEAN and ensure timely follow through
• Create and deliver reports and presentations, as required
• Lead by example, building the appropriate culture and values, using effective leadership, coaching and engagement.
• Work closely with Chief of Staff – Risk to coordinate people agenda across Risk.
• Collaborate with RCFCR BPMs and the wider Risk function to anticipate any risks and issues inside and outside of the functions that the Group Chief Risk Officer should be aware of.
• Collaborate with fellow MT BPMs, MT members and stakeholders to achieve this.

Key Stakeholders

• Group Risk Management Team and WRB, GCNA & ASEAN Risk Management Team
• Members of WRB Risk Committee
• Group & Regional Business stakeholders
• Group & Regional HR partners, CABM
• Group Internal Audit
• Risk Reporting teams

Job Requirements

• A university degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or a closely related discipline is essential to provide a strong foundation in financial and economic principles relevant to risk management.
• Comprehensive training in mandatory role-specific topics, regulatory requirements, and compliance matters across the banking industry to maintain up-to-date expertise.
• Fluency in English is required for effective communication across global teams and regulatory bodies.
• Exceptional written communication skills, with the ability to condense complex and technical information into clear, concise reports, typically summarised within half a page, thereby facilitating informed decision making by senior leadership.
• Proven influence and negotiation abilities to constructively challenge and shape views at various organisational levels, fostering effective collaboration and driving desired outcomes.
• Presence and gravitas enabling credible and impactful communication with senior internal and external stakeholders, including regulators and board members.
• Strong interpersonal skills combined with a sensitivity to multicultural environments, allowing navigation through diverse regional business cultures with respect and understanding.
• Flexibility and adaptability to thrive in a fast-moving environment, effectively prioritising and managing multiple tasks simultaneously without compromising quality.
• Direct, hands-on experience in at least one risk control discipline, such as operational risk, credit risk, market risk, or compliance risk, evidencing technical proficiency and practical application knowledge
• Professional Accreditation such as Enhanced Competency Framework (ECF) under the HK Institute of Bankers (HKIB) would be an advantage.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Manage Conduct
•    Manage Risk
•    Manage People
•    Manage Internal Control
•    Manage Projects
•    Manage Change
•    Organisation Design

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.