Job Summary

Provide expert, risk-based support to business and/or functional teams (dependent on CFCR team remit) on digital asset activities, ensuring consistent application of frameworks, regulatory integration, and capability development across the enterprise. 

Digital Assets Subject Matter Expert – DA CFCR Hub

The primary responsibilities aim to ensure consistent interpretation of regulatory requirements, knowledge sharing, and effective training delivery, while advocating for digital asset compliance within the broader framework of the DA CFCR Hub.

Key Responsibilities

Business
•    Deliver timely, risk-informed advice on digital asset products, clients, and transactions in the context of the team’s remit and responsibilities.
•    Apply enterprise frameworks, policies, and standards in business-specific contexts.
•    Support design and review of controls within business activities, product approval and governance, and client lifecycle processes, as applicable.
•    Identify emerging risks and escalate complex/novel scenarios to the DA CFCR Hub.
•    Contribute to the process optimization and digital enablement of DA CFCR activities, e.g., workflow tools, dashboards, and ACR.
•    Partner with the business, where appropriate, to embed DA compliance aspects.
•    Ensure that BAU DA work references and aligns with enterprise DA CFCR outcomes to drive consistency and support organizational goals.
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.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

•    Group DA CFCR PRT RFO
•    DA SMEs in the DA CFCR Hub
•    Group DA RFO
•    DA Enterprise Risk Team

DA CFCR Hub
Our strategic objective for the operating model and utilization of a select group of DA specialists within CFCR is to transform the current support capacity and capability. This transformation aims to shift from individual contributors to a multiplier effect that enhances knowledge, capability, and consistency, ultimately creating a self-sustaining ecosystem where DA-specific Compliance, FCC, and Conduct are integrated into business as usual.
This strategic approach ensures a sustainable and scalable model that enhances our compliance capabilities and embeds DA-specific knowledge and practices into the core business operations.
Responsibilities to the DA CFCR Hub
•    Maintain functional and practical alignment with the Hub to ensure consistent interpretation of regulatory requirements and policy intent.
•    Participate/lead, where appropriate, cross-CFCR (and other functions, if applicable) calibration sessions and thematic reviews led by the DA CFCR hub. 
•    Contribute knowledge sharing though documenting case precedents, lessons learned and insights for the enterprise knowledge base. 
•    Support the design and delivery of training modules aligned to key DA risk themes or specific to CFCR products and/or personas. 
•    Act as a key agent (or lead, where asked) on DA for CFCR advocacy, regulatory consultation, policy updates and rollout, updates to frameworks and guidance both internal in the function and with the business as required in the BAU CFCR team’s remit. 
Management of DA SMEs with DA CFCR Hub Responsbilities
•    DA CFCR SME has a matrix reporting line to DA RFO for the DA CFCR Hub responsibilities.    Adequate performance of  DA CFCR Hub responsibilities is a gate opener to variable compensation.  Failure to perform DA CFCR Hub responsibilities would preclude any IPA or variable comp. 

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate:

• Degree holder with 8+ years of experience as a Compliance professional in the financial services or related professional services industry.
• Excellent knowledge of Digital Assets products, Regulatory Compliance and Financial Crime Compliance.
• Direct experience in managing detailed compliance and banking processes, regulatory relationship management and/or in a regulator role a major plus.
• Prerequisite skills include being a fast learner, intellectual, self-motivated, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work independently

Role Specific Technical Competencies:

• Compliance Policies and Standard
• Compliance Advisory
• Compliance Risk Assessment
• Regulatory Liaison
• Manage Change
• Manage Projects
• Manage Conduct

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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