Job Summary

This role could be based in Poland and Malaysia. When you start the application process you will be presented with a drop down menu showing all countries, please ensure that you select a country where the role is based.

We are seeking an experienced risk manager to join our TPRM Risk Oversight team. This is a 1LOD role within the CIB Conduct & Control department, reporting to Head, CIB TPRM, ensuring that we maintain robust governance and controls over third-party relationships across our footprints. The successful candidate will play a critical role in enhancing awareness around TPRM governance frameworks, developing management information, and developing risk mitigation strategies.

This is a high-impact role within a global financial institution, offering the opportunity to drive strategic improvements in third-party risk oversight. If you are a seasoned risk professional with a passion for governance and global risk management, we encourage you to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide oversight on outsourcing and third-party risk management requirements, ensuring alignment with internal standards, policies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices.
• Assess emerging risks and propose enhancements to processes, controls, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Analyse and summarise consultation papers to outline impact to business and proactively come up with tactical and strategic measures.
• Actively drive the identification of risks and issues. 
• Prepare risk committee papers, track action items. Provide ad-hoc updates to senior management.
• Support pan-CIB actions such as risk assessments, treatment plan execution and remediation initiatives.
• Raise awareness on TPRM and provide subject matter expertise to countries and clusters.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business units, helping them navigate third-party risk exposure and implement effective risk mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with senior stakeholders across business, compliance, legal, and OTCR to drive a risk-aware culture.
• Support the design CIB TPRM governance structures, processes and procedures.
• Ensure effective due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and risk assessment methodologies for third-party engagements.
• Oversee risk reporting and dashboards to provide senior management with clear visibility on third-party risks and trends.
• Drive continuous improvement in TPRM reporting, leveraging analytics and automation where possible.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognized university (advanced degree or relevant certifications in risk management preferably).
• 12+ years of experience with a minimum of 6 years in Operational Risk, Compliance, Enterprise Risk or Third-Party Risk Management in 1LOD or 2LOD, preferably in Financial Services.  
• Strong understanding of risk frameworks, regulatory expectations, and governance best practices in a global organization.
• Knowledge of key international regulations relating to operational risk and outsourcing & third-party risk management in particular.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and engage senior leaders. Experience in facilitating large workshops and meetings. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with experience in data-driven risk oversight.

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.