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

The Group Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) organisation is instrumental in protecting and ensuring the resilience of Standard Chartered Bank’s data and IT systems by managing Information and Cyber Security (ICS) risk across the enterprise. 
ICS Identity and Access Management domain is central to ensuring the Bank’s ability to meet its ICS commitment to internal and external stakeholders, including regulators, as well as maintaining an acceptable ICS risk profile that is regularly reported to the Board, and that is supported by the Group ICS Risk & Governance Function.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive consistency in translating ICS and IAM Strategy into actionable programmes and initiatives across multiple regions.
• Work closely with IAM CPOs to define and manage programme scope, benefits (financial, risk, regulatory) and delivery roadmaps.
• Track and facilitate dependency management within and outside ICS IAM.
• Implement updated governance standards and ensure compliance with Change Delivery Standards.
• Ensure the voices of clients and relevant stakeholders (regional / country representatives) are represented throughout the programme lifecycle (ideation – development – deployment – operations).
• Provide transparency around progress, blockers, impediments, dependencies and value delivery via fit-for-purpose business and delivery metrics.
• Partner with Global Head of ICS IAM, CISO, HR Business Partners, Sourcing & Vendor Management and ICS Portfolio Delivery Partners.
• Ensure alignment to process management taxonomy and bank standards.
• Optimise end-to-end customer journey through process mapping, applying best practice and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Engage process and risk control owners early in programme and process changes.
• Ensure regular engagement and management of process change, operational and delivery risks across the programme backlog.
• Balance technical debt, risk and regulatory items with new functionality to keep cost of change low.
• Enforce and maintain IAM governance protocols to ensure adherence to highest security standards and best practices.
• Establish frameworks to manage security policies, procedures and controls effectively.

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years of experience delivering large-scale, complex technology or cyber security / IAM programmes, ideally in financial services or regulated industries.
• Hands-on experience managing global, multi-stakeholder initiatives and reporting at senior management / board level.
• Familiarity with Identity & Access Management concepts, operating models, controls and regulatory expectations.
• Ability to translate IAM technical or regulatory requirements into business-aligned delivery plans.
• Programme Management-related certification (e.g. PMP, Agile PM) is beneficial but not essential.
• Knowledge of “Ways of Working” and flow of work (Agile, SAFe or equivalent) is essential.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working across geographies, time zones and in a hybrid working model.

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.