Job Summary:  

Client engagement 
• Demonstrated excellence in API Banking with proven track record of supporting frontline and Implementation teams in delivering complex solutions (multi-market, bespoke, co-created, integrated / multi-modular deals...) while providing technical insights and solutions to meet client needs / RFP’s / RFI’s.
• Provide data-driven leads and comprehensive support across the deal lifecycle, from prospecting to acquisition, implementation, and servicing.
• Responsible for reviewing and approving Cash Deal Reviews (CDRs) related to API deals.

API capabilities 
• Drive market-specific Product Technical Requirements (PTRs) to activate new API capabilities / corridors.
• Develop and execute market specific test scenarios for PTRs, capturing insights to enhance the Open Banking Marketplace (OBM). 
• Act as a subject matter expert in the OBM to guide clients through discovery, implementation, and go-live phases.
• Actively contribute to OBM content creation, focusing on practical guides and resources to enhance the customer journey.
• Support the integration of third-party solutions and artifacts, ensuring the pre-integration of strategic partners for streamlined plug-and-play solutions

Open Banking- Open Finance 
• Ensure compliance with Open Banking and Open Finance regulatory and industry initiatives at the market level by actively engaging regulators and contributing to industry thought leadership on use cases, standards, and commercial models.
• Collaborate closely with the global product team to document requirements clearly, align tasks, and prioritize work to meet regulatory timelines.
• Engage with local regulators to facilitate Sandbox testing and ensure readiness for implementation.
• Drive by the responsibilities on Open Finance, assist Frontline and product teams in client interactions related to digital solutions, supporting the commercialization of both existing and new focused on Digital solutions.

• Support the prioritization and roll out of API products and initiatives, engaging with key stakeholders to drive adoption and maximize the impact of our Open Finance offerings. 
• Map the local Third-Party Provider (TPP) ecosystem to identify potential partnerships and business opportunities.
• Lead expertise in consent management and user journey design for open banking and finance.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the market-specific ecosystem, including key players like aggregators, TPPs, and other relevant stakeholders.

Key metrics and reporting 
• Responsible for API-driven Digital revenue, volumes and client adoption across multi market and cross product in the relevant cluster.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
• The CIB Business Platforms & Partnerships team works closely with CIB business verticals, Technology, Operations and Transformation teams to maximise the impact and quality of change delivery to enable the CIB business strategy. 
• The CIB Digital Channels, Data & Coverage Platforms team under the CIB BPP team serves our clients and partners by driving digital and channel-led solutions that fuel growth in flow, efficiency and bottom-line revenue for the future growth of Standard Chartered.
• CIB Digital Channels, Data & Coverage Platforms supports Markets, Banking and the Transaction Bank to structure the best solutions for our client’s processes and needs incorporating all of our channel and data capabilities, helping our clients achieve their aspirations in todays’ digital economy using our latest digital and channel led capabilities to mesh our offerings to the client’s platforms / processes.

Business
• The CIB business model is structured to provide comprehensive digital solutions for clients across Markets, Banking and Transaction Banking. Our Digital Solutions team support clients throughout the journey, from prospecting to implementation and ongoing support, within an efficient, digital-first enablement approach. By integrating data and channels, we deliver tailored solutions that add value in the digital economy. 
• Our approach to Open Banking and Open Finance is proactive and compliance-driven. We align with regulatory standards and industry benchmarks, positioning us as leaders. Collaborating with global product teams, we prioritize readiness and compliance, including Sandbox testing.
• With a thorough understanding of the market, we map the TPP landscape to identify partnerships and opportunities aligned with clients' evolving needs. CIB remains committed to impactful, adaptable, and data-driven solutions that enable sustainable growth and a competitive edge.
• API’s play a key role in our strategy. We support Frontline and Product teams with market-specific requirements, pre-integrated solutions, and strategic partnerships to enhance efficiency and client satisfaction.

Processes
• The role plays a key part in driving the digital transformation of the bank primarily through an ambitious agenda to expanding our real client solutions across all segments showcasing digital and channel solutions to increase cross border flow and P&L contribution to CIB 

People & Talent
•    Cross-functional collaboration – Work within a diverse team and partner effectively across CIB Digital Channel, Data, and Coverage Platform, as well as various business and functional units.
•    Stakeholder engagement – Actively engage with frontline, product, implementation, legal, compliance, operations and technology teams.
•    Team player mindset – Foster collaboration and drive alignment across teams to support business objectives.
•    Thought leadership – Provide strategic insights and a collaborative approach to enable successful outcomes.
•    Business enablement – Support and drive impactful business results for clients and stakeholders.

Risk Management
•    A proactive approach to risk management is essential, with ongoing responsibilities to identify, assess, monitor, mitigate risks related to platform selection and integration.

Governance

•    Work with regional and in-country teams to ensure that platforms are compliant with any relevant legal and regulatory requirements and risks.

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.
•    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
•    Markets, Transaction Banking, Banking, Implementation, Technology, Finance, Risk, Operation, Legal and Compliance

Skills and Experience
•    Strategic thinker, solving complex problems and develops creative solutions with a strong attention to detail.
•    Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), and ability to present and advocate concepts to key stakeholders and leadership. 
•    Team player comfortable shifting from strategic planning, to executing tactically.
•    Organised and able to manage multiple projects and competing priorities. 
•    Experienced in leading client lifecycle marketing and sales across email, apps, platforms, and devices.
•    Invests time to build excellent product knowledge to confidently advocate.
•    Adapts approach for stakeholders, including executives and working teams.
•    Collaborative approach to working with colleagues in a region and globally.
•    Quantitative and qualitative client research workshops, using multiple data sources to understand client insight and develop products, services, and campaigns.

Our Ideal candidate

• 5+ years of experience in API Banking with proven track record of serving corporate & Financial Institution clients.
• Strong expertise in Global Cash Management Practices, Trade products, Cross-border remittances, Transactional FX and Custody products
• Strong Product Management, Project Management, analytical problem solving and use of relevant tools.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing multi-market, medium to large scale product enablers and platforms in the transaction banking / Markets / Custody.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality deliverables under tight timelines while maintaining precision and excellence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Demonstrated excellence in API Banking with proven track record of serving corporate & Financial Institution clients.
• Strong expertise in Global Cash Management Practices, Trade products, Cross-border remittances, Transactional FX and Custody products
• Product Management, Project Management, analytical problem solving and use of relevant tools.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing multi-market, medium to large scale product enablers and platforms in the transaction banking / Markets / Custody
• Demonstrated ability to deliver high quality deliverables under tight timelines while maintaining precision and excellence.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

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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