Job Summary

This role leads the development of a forward-looking Emerging Risk Management capability for Technology & Operations (T&O) and design&execution of the Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) process.

You will be responsible for driving a step-change in how the RCSA is delivered making it simpler, more consistent, and powered by data. Working across all processes within the T&O Process Universe, you will ensure that risks are clearly identified, controls are meaningfully assessed, and outcomes are actionable and transparent. You will also strengthen the governance over the RCSA, establishing how it’s executed, validated, tracked, and improved year on year.

In parallel, you will build a new capability that helps the organisation better anticipate risks on the horizon. You will define a structured approach to emerging risk identification—combining external research, regulatory insights, and engagement with control leads, process owners, and programme stakeholders. This will ensure forward-looking risks are recognised early and embedded into strategic discussions, change initiatives, and control uplift programmes.

This is a hands-on delivery role with strategic scope. You will work independently, lead design and execution activities, facilitate workshops, and collaborate deeply across the three lines of defence. The impact of your work will directly shape the maturity and resilience of the T&O risk environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the Emerging Risk Management and target state for RCSA across T&O.
• Position the role of both capabilities in driving proactive, data-driven risk ownership.
• Develop a multi-year maturity roadmap to elevate control assurance and forward-looking risk awareness.
• Act as a key interface with second line and regulatory horizon scanning teams to ensure alignment and insight sharing.
• Embed risk assessment as a business-led activity that informs decision-making, not just compliance.
• Link risk insights to change initiatives, operational delivery, and business resilience.
• Translate emerging risks into strategic considerations and mitigation actions for business units.
• Influence stakeholders across business, technology, and risk functions to adopt an anticipatory risk mindset.
• Build and execute a structured emerging risk identification process, leveraging inputs from:
  • Regulatory horizon scans,
  • Market trends and peer insights,
  • Internal stakeholder workshops,
  • Change programmes and known control weaknesses.
• Partner with analytics teams to enhance visibility through dashboards and thematic reporting.
• Lead the full lifecycle of the RCSA from planning and guidance to execution and validation.
  • Define templates, data inputs, ownership models, and quality assurance checks.
  • Establish a consistent governance model to track progress, escalate delays, and review outcomes.

Skills and Experience

• 10+ years in risk governance, regulatory engagement, technology risk, or non-financial risk management.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Risk Management, Law, Business Administration, Technology, or a related field.
• Professional certifications (preferred but not mandatory).
• CISM, CISSP, CRISC (for cybersecurity and risk expertise).
• CFA, FRM, or similar risk qualifications (for broader risk governance knowledge).
• ICA or other compliance certifications (for regulatory engagement expertise)
• Risk Management.
• Analytical Thinking.
• Planning: Tactical, Strategic.
• Managing Change.
• Stakeholder Management.
• Data & Reporting.
• Project Management.

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.