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Senior Associate, Regulatory Conduct Risk Governance
Job Description
Requisition Number:  63886
Job Location:  Guangzhou, CHN
Global Grade:  Band 7
Work Type:  Hybrid Working
Employment Type:  Permanent
Posting Start Date:  12/10/2026
Posting End Date:  31/12/2026
Job Description: 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy 
• Support line manager to manage regulatory risk, ensuring the governance of all on-site and off-site regulatory inspections, regular or ad-hoc visits are well organized, and monitor regulatory commitments etc. 
• Support line manager to provide oversight on CFCC governance from Compliance Risk perspective.

 

Business
• Support Compliance Risk Assessment, ensure appropriate escalation of Country issues to CHoC and the relevant Country risk forums.
• Follow appropriate processes for escalation and resolution where losses or issues occur, in relation to risks owned by CFCC.
• Assist Head of CFCC Governance to implement group initiatives set out in Enterprise Risk Management Framework and when rolled out in China, such as Country RAM tracking, stress test, Rubik Metrics, and etc.

 

Processes 

• Maintain the central inventory of on-site regulatory inspections, provide advices and supports on regulatory on-site examinations and further improve inspection management and systemizing the handling process, prepare the MI and regulatory reports on on-site regulatory inspections.
• Track regulation assignment and implementation status for the regulations assigned to CFCC governance. 
• Render timely and proper assistance to action parties during relevant Compliance process. 
• Be the country LKCS coordinator including creating, amending and maintaining all LKCSs in Operational Risk System.
• Support, facilitate and provide compliance advice on regulatory requirements, inquiries and opinions for support functions.
• Coordinate the self-assessment on market disorder conducted by cross-functions.
• Proceed any ad-hoc jobs assigned by line manager. 

People & Talent  
• Increasing engagement with a range of stakeholders within the business and the functions
• Take responsibility for own personal development and training in line with the Banks principles and guidelines.
• Ensure all mandatory training is completed on time. 

 

Risk Management
• Proactive identification of compliance risks ensuring these are managed and escalated appropriately and timely 

 

Governance 
• Contribute to the development and production of suite of management information for senior stakeholders, where possible

 

Regulatory & Business Conduct 
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for supporting the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Operation of Financial Markets; Financial Crime Prevention; The Right Environment Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. 

Key stakeholders
• 1st LOD Function team
• 2nd LOD and 3rd LOD team 

 

Other Responsibilities
• Understand, acknowledge and comply with the requirements on individual accountabilities and responsibilities of the job set out in applicable local laws and regulations as well as SCB internal policies
• Effectively ensure and intensify internal controls by keeping abreast with developments of applicable local laws and regulations on accountabilities
• Perform job duties with diligence, contribute to efforts as an individual or as a team member so as to avoid any actual or potential legal sanctions, regulatory penalties, material financial loss, or adverse reputational impact on the Bank
• Be responsible for failure to follow relevant rules and processes, failure to properly perform the responsibilities, and implement corrections
• Cooperate with any investigations or reviews on regulatory failure such as accountability review
• Properly perform the duties on supervisory and risk control, including but not limited to 

• Contribute in the formulation or amendment of risk control and accountability policies
• Participate in the internal investigations or reviews on regulatory failure such as accountability review

• Be responsible for regulatory failure or risks arising from or in connection of failure to perform the duties on supervisory and risk control

Skills and Experience

• Thorough knowledge of banking products and services, such as RMB settlement, cross-border RMB, FX under current and capital account, BOP, AML related, and the latest new polit policy for biz promotion.
• More than 6 years work experience in banking industry, especially in Ops, TB, Compliance, or relevant regulator background
• Sound knowledge of local regulatory requirements, local banking practices and requirements including but not limited to RMB XB and FX self-discipline mechanism, FTZ policy, credit bureau policy, individual FX policy, etc.
• Strong local regulatory relationship management skills and have healthy relationships with key depts. of regulators, such as capital account division, current account division, BOP, AML, Financial stability, foreign bank supervisory department, etc
• Good judgment enabling the provision of sound advice in ambiguity areas of regulation and practice and the proactive management of compliance and regulatory risk in the city
• Deep knowledge of the process critical for implementation of risks and controls
• Deep knowledge of execution and supervision of the compliance related process, and that of regulatory requirement.
• Good understanding of the bank's overall business and operation for co-ordination with other teams
• Deep knowledge of execution and supervision of the compliance related process, and that of regulatory requirement.
• Handle most compliance enquiry independently.
• Strong risk sense and the ability to assess risk in the branch

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of regulatory requirements, ability to interpret regulatory requirement, identify and assess relevant laws and regulations to provide solutions to stakeholders.
• Good skill of financial risk management, and good knowledge of bank structure, operation procedure and operating models.
• Good communication skills with an understanding of key relationships, ability to deliver clear information to different stakeholders, and ability to interact and build relationship with all levels of internal and external stakeholders.
• Proactive and creative approach to work, self-motivated and pragmatic. Takes responsibility and accountability for own tasks.

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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