JOB SUMMARY
The role-holder will report to the Head of Conduct & Non-Financial Risk Management & Oversight, acting as a Executive Director of Non-Financial Risk (NFR) Management across the Corporate and Institutional (CIB) Business / our International Markets supporting the strategic direction and providing guidance to key stakeholders across the CIB businesses to ensure the adoption, embedding and sustainability of the process and control framework. The role holder will play a key role in owning and driving initiatives for non-financial risk management, including providing subject-matter expertise for conducting / overseeing first-line thematic risk reviews; root cause reviews; ‘read-acrosses’ and drive control enhancements to improve risk management.  

The role-holder will also provide and demonstrate effective oversight of the key frameworks including the design and delivery of initiatives and project-based activity to enhance the process and control framework in an efficient and sustainable manner driving a culture of excellence. 

The role-holder will demonstrate strong Subject Matter Expertise (SME) across the non-financial risk spectrum thereby contributing to the early and pro-active identification of risks whilst fostering a collaborative culture to address these. The successful candidate will play a critical role in enhancing non-financial risk awareness around frameworks, developing management information and data led capabilities, and supporting the deployment of risk mitigation strategies.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Provide CIB wide coverage and oversight of non-financial risk management to ensure these are effectively embedded across all businesses.
• Monitor and respond to emerging and horizon risks impacting CIB and drive the review of processes, controls and frameworks where required, to ensure these are effectively managed.
• Act as a champion for strategic design and or change initiatives and the implementation thereof to enhance non-financial risk capabilities across the CIB businesses. 

Business

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of the CIB businesses.
• Partner with the different business teams to drive the NFR agenda and become a trusted advisor and team player focused on delivering the right risk management outcomes for CIB.
• Co-ordinate, drive and deliver business wide review activities across the business areas within CIB.

Processes

• Lead, drive, co-ordinate as appropriate review teams to drive effective, practical, and timely review and evaluation of standards, identifying gaps and opportunities for enhancement or efficiency gains.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across the CIB business and other areas as may be the case to ensure a risk-based approach in the execution of control monitoring and risk management activities.
• Identify and support opportunities to enhance and uplift control design working across teams to ensure the control framework is robust and effective in mitigating risk.

People & Talent 

• Demonstrate an inquisitive mindset that will continually look to push the status quo on risk management. 

Risk Management

• Conduct review and oversight activities to ensure effective and efficient processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor, and report on non-financial risk across CIB.
• Produce and provide regular, clear, risk focused updates for business management demonstrating delivery against agreed objectives and effective action across the CIB businesses.
• Advise and guide CIB businesses on evolving non-financial risk threats, industry trends and the external regulatory environment
• Partner with Process Owners to ensure controls are optimally and sustainably designed to mitigate risks and effective outcomes are driven from Risk and Control Self-Assessment Processes. 

Governance 

• Report and escalate on a timely basis into the appropriate governance forum on risks and issues, control weaknesses, incidents, and review activities as applicable
• Promote and maintain a strong and effective first line of defence risk culture across the CIB businesses.
• Engage in a collaborative and pro-active manner with key stakeholders across the second and third lines, and external as applicable, to ensure issues and feedback is acted upon timely.
• Support risk reporting in formal risk governance meetings through taking ownership / participating insight risk governance papers to appraise senior management on first line risk management activities. 

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

• CIB MT
• CIB COO MT
• CIB Heads of Conduct and Controls
• CIB Chief Risk Officer
• CIB Head of Global Internal Audit
• External – regulatory authorities and external audit

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Singapore CIB Conduct and Control Team
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of experience in financial services preferably corporate banking
• A strong audit and or risk and control background
• Data-oriented personality with a client centric mindset
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Exposure to working with multi-cultural/geographic teams and prior experience working in a matrixed environment
• Desirable - risk management certification / qualification

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Business Markets
• Risk Management
• Data Gathering & Analysis
• Effective Communication

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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