Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Specialist, Control Room Compliance based in Warsaw to support the delivery of key Control Room activities. This role is responsible for reviewing employee and business requests, providing compliance guidance, and maintaining effective controls designed to mitigate conflicts of interest, misuse of information, and related conduct risks.

• Personal Account Dealing (PAD) reviews and approvals.
• Outside Business Activities (OBA) and other employee conduct-related requests.
• Transactional conflict clearance and information barrier assessments.

Key Responsibilities

• The role supports the consistent application of internal policies and procedures and helps ensure robust controls are in place across Control Room processes.
• In addition to core conflict management activities, the role includes a range of administrative, monitoring, and control responsibilities, including:
  • Maintaining and updating insider lists in line with Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) requirements
  • Managing Watch List and Restricted List updates and related monitoring activities
  • Supporting and documenting wall crossing approval activity
  • Reviewing research reports and supporting related governance requirements
  • Conducting employee trading surveillance and escalating issues where appropriate
  • Handling PAD and OBA breaches, including investigation support and record maintenance
• Additionally, the role provides guidance on and interprets relevant procedures, including Conflicts and Information Walls, Personal Account Dealing (PAD), and Outside Business Activities (OBA), to support effective risk management and policy compliance. Senior specialist also has a role contributing in process improvement, control effectiveness, and the broader Compliance function strategy by working closely with stakeholders across business, risk, and control teams.
• Lastly, Senior specialist role will be involved in ongoing function digital transformation, including implementation of AI models in daily responsibilities.

Skills and Experience

• Experience in compliance, employee conflicts, or a related risk and control environment within financial services.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, sound judgement, and the ability to manage sensitive information are essential.
• A good understanding of financial markets and an interest in stock exchange activity will be an advantage.
• The ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, manage multiple priorities, and collaborate across teams is important for success in this role.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across teams are also important for success in this role.
• Availability to work in a hybrid model: minimum 2 days a week in the office is a must.
• Availability to work in US shifts (2:00pm-10:00pm CET), including at least one shift per week, and on Polish public holiday, is a must. 

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.
• 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.