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Title: Head, OTCR, Policy & Regulatory Management
Warsaw, PL
Job Summary
The Operational, Technology and Cyber Risk (OTCR) organization is instrumental in protecting and ensuring the resilience of Standard Chartered Bank’s operations, data, and IT systems by managing operational, technology and cyber risk across the enterprise. As a critical function reporting into the Group Chief Risk Officer (CRO), the Group OTCR team serves as the second line of defence for assuring that controls are implemented effectively, in accordance with the OTCR Framework, and for instilling a risk culture within the Bank.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead policy development, implementation, and compliance oversight to protect information assets.
- Manage a team and collaborate with stakeholders.
- Serve as a cyber security expert.
- Define and maintain Cyber and Technology Policy.
- Ensure effective risk management and regular updates for future-ready guidelines.
- Provide leadership on best practices for policy and standard delivery.
- Promote simplification and improvement.
- Execute Legal and Regulatory Management tasks.
- Map regulations and respond to RFIs.
- Develop and enforce Cyber Security and Technology policies aligned with industry standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001) and regulations (e.g., GDPR).
- Ensure accessibility for stakeholders.
- Focus on enhancing ICS and Technology.
- Guide risk and control simplification.
- Improve compliance reporting.
- Adopt a forward-looking approach to update policies for emerging technologies like AI and Quantum Computing.
- Ensure alignment across Risk Frameworks, connecting frameworks, policies, standards, controls, and processes.
Skills and Experience
- A rigorous and analytical approach to risk management
- Knowledge of the Business and its franchise and/or remit
- Experience of business partnering, including the ability to synthesize and articulate complex and technical topics clearly to diverse audiences
- Ability to manage a diverse and challenging stakeholder community/team
- Proven experience with co-ordination of many dependencies in a complex, large-scale environment
- Specific strong competence in the use of Excel for analysis of complex data and PowerPoint for communication purposes
- Ideally the role holder will have specific experience of OTCR frameworks and have an in-depth knowledge of some of the key organizational and operational challenges faced by a Second-Line Risk function.
- Group, with specific knowledge in cyber and information security risk
- Ability to represent the Bank with external stakeholders via Industry Forums and at key Regulatory meetings.
- Ability to assess priorities and focus on detailed aspects of a SME function to drive effective delivery
- Excellent analytical skills: ability to think clearly and rigorously about how best to assess existing and emerging risks and readiness, being able to reach a pragmatic approach and direction.
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.