JOB SUMMARY

We are seeking an experienced Associate Director to join our Second Line Assurance (2LA) team. The 2LA function within CFCC provides independent, risk-based assurance across various non-financial risk types, focusing on those that significantly impact our clients, business, and regulators. As an Associate Director, you will be responsible for executing risk-based Assurance Reviews in line with our annual plan and methodology, with a focus on the Financial Crimes Risk portfolio.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Collaborate with the Head of Assurance to develop and execute the 2LA Annual Plan.
- Ensure timely and quality execution of the Plan.
- Proactively identify emerging risks and provide input for periodic risk-based reviews.
- Lead Assurance Reviews and communicate outcomes to stakeholders, supporting them in mitigating identified risks.
- Execute review tasks, identifying potential issues and ensuring they are formally evaluated.
- Stay informed of changes in laws, rules, and regulations relevant to Assurance activities.
- Collect and analyze information to develop risk-based assurance reviews.
- Manage the end-to-end execution of reviews, ensuring documentation meets quality standards.
- Track issues throughout their lifecycle, ensuring sustainable remediation before closure.
- Promote collaboration with auditors, regulators, and industry peers.
- Provide recommendations on risk management responses and support stakeholders in mitigating identified risks.
- Ensure all Assurance processes adhere to required risk management standards.
- Escalate significant risks and issues promptly.
 

Qualification

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of Financial Crime Risk.
- 6-8 years of experience in audit, assurance, compliance, or risk management.
- Experience in conducting walkthroughs, risk assessments, testing controls, and performing substantive testing.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage stakeholders effectively.
- Excellent oral and written communication 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

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 76,650 to 115,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualised basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations
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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.