Job Summary

This Manager role within the Group Chief Data Office (CDO) is critical for validating and strengthening the organization's internal control environment through meticulous testing activities. You will directly support internal Process Owners by ensuring the effectiveness of controls, which underpins the Bank's commitment to client and regulator trust, risk mitigation, and compliance. This position offers a significant opportunity to specialize in internal control testing within a dynamic, data-driven environment.

Key Responsibilities

Internal Control Testing & Assuranc

• Lead and Execute Control Testing: Manage and perform comprehensive testing of the design adequacy and operating effectiveness of internal controls across Group CDO workstreams.
• Develop and Refine Testing Methodologies: Provide expert input into control testing strategies, processes, and documentation. Drive continuous improvement in testing approaches, including the development of test scripts, sampling strategies, and evidence requirements.
• Analyse Test Results and Validate Remediation: Conduct thorough reviews of control assessment outcomes and monthly control testing results. Critically evaluate the adequacy and effectiveness of remediation actions for identified control deficiencies.
• Manage Attestation & Continuous Monitoring Support: Oversee and execute deliverables related to internal control testing. Support continuous control monitoring efforts by testing exceptions and validating their remediation.
  Stakeholder Collaboration for Testable Controls: Advise stakeholders on defining clear, concise, and testable internal controls that effectively monitor the control environment and align with organizational risk frameworks and industry best practices.
• Enhance Control Testing Processes: Identify opportunities and drive initiatives to automate and streamline control testing procedures and associated risk management processes within the Group CDO.
• Reporting on Control Effectiveness: Support the design and implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions specifically for reporting on control testing coverage, and test results, identified deficiencies, and remediation status.
• Promote Control Testing Awareness: Support initiatives to educate stakeholders on the importance of robust control testing, control effectiveness, and the benefits of a strong control environment

Continuous improvement and innovation

• Stay Abreast of Testing Best Practices: Keep current with industry trends, regulatory changes, and evolving best practices specifically in internal control testing, data governance, and financial services risk management.
• Enhance Testing Frameworks: Continuously evaluate and improve internal control testing processes, methodologies, and tools to enhance effectiveness, efficiency, and alignment with organizational standards.
• Advance Control Testing Maturity: Propose and lead initiatives to enhance the Group CDO's internal control testing capabilities and overall control environment maturity.

Skills and Experience

• At least 5 years’ experience (desirable):
• Prior experience in internal/external audit, internal control, risk management, or similar role focusing on control testing.
• Understanding of internal control frameworks (e.g., COSO)
• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Advanced MS Excel proficiency: Demonstrated expertise in MS Excel, including complex formulas, pivot tables, data validation, charting, and data manipulation for analysing large datasets.
• Strong reporting and data visualisation skills: Experience in developing clear, concise, and impactful reports and dashboards (potentially leveraging Excel, VBA, and/or BI tools) to communicate control testing findings, trends, deficiency status, and remediation progress to various stakeholders.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills: Strong capability to analyse control testing results, identify patterns or anomalies, and contribute to identifying root cases of control deficiencies.
• Attention to detail: Meticulous approach to control testing execution, evidence gathering, and reporting to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Time management: Exceptional organizational skills to handle multiple tasks and projects efficiently.

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.