Job Description
You’ll work with senior leaders, represent the business in committees, support resilience, and guide partners to meet regulatory, security, and information risk needs. If you thrive in dynamic settings and enjoy shaping strong risk frameworks, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
Risk & ICT Oversight
- Monitor regulatory updates and ensure timely changes.
- Lead ICT risk reporting to management and committees.
- Oversee ongoing ICT and cyber risk assessments with First Line of Defence.
- Review ICT and outsourcing proposals, changes, and risks.
- Ensure first-line controls comply with local and EU rules.
- Track ICS risks and remediation to completion.
- Support business continuity planning and testing.
Third Party & Operational Risk Leadership
- Provide second-line oversight for Third Party Risk Management.
- Engage with first-line teams to strengthen TPR.
- Review third-party risk controls and escalate issues.
- Promote a positive risk culture and high conduct standards.
Governance & Strategy
- Embed the Operational Risk Framework in business processes.
- Assess processes for accurate risk ratings and controls.
- Chair and join governance committees, ensuring risk roles.
- Report material risks aligned with appetite and regulations.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Maintain relationships with Luxembourg and European regulators.
- Role model values, ethics, and Code of Conduct.
- Ensure compliance with laws, standards, and policies.
Skills and Qualifications
Essential Skills
- Strong expertise in ICT, cyber, and operational risk management.
- Knowledge of DORA, ICT risk frameworks, and Third Party Risk Management.
- Understanding of technology, cybersecurity, and regulatory risk landscapes.
- Experience working with Luxembourg and EU regulators.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and collaborate across teams and regions.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and presentation skills.
- Highly organised with strong project and programme management capabilities.
- Fluent in English; French or German highly advantageous.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Technology, Information Security, Risk, or related field.
- Industry certifications preferred (e.g., CRISC, CISA, CISM, CISSP, C-CISO).
- Proven background in banking, audit, consulting, or similar risk-focused environments.
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.
