Job Summary

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Lead and transform the Risk function for Information & Cyber Security (ICS), driving excellence in governance, oversight, and assurance across our cybersecurity landscape. This strategic leadership role shapes the design and implementation of cutting-edge cyber security controls while ensuring operational effectiveness through continuous monitoring and improvement. You'll be at the forefront of cybersecurity risk management, providing critical insights and leadership to protect our organisation's digital assets and reputation.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as an executive-level strategic risk partner to our ICS team as well as the broader business, providing pragmatic guidance on how to effectively and efficiently manage their ICS risks.
• Lead end-to-end risk management across all people, processes and assets within the ICS function, establishing a culture of proactive risk awareness.
• Develop and maintain the existing high-performing team of risk subject matter experts, with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Build strategic partnerships with leaders across the organisation to facilitate:

• • Growing trust with clients and regulators by supporting the ICS Function to be 'First to Know' its risks & issues, and to deliver on commitments
  • The provision of timely, expert advice and comprehensive assurance

• Champion effective risk mitigation by supporting the design, build, and implementation of robust processes and controls that address evolving ICS risks, in line with industry best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Engage proactively and constructively with 2LOD, Audit, and other key stakeholders around risk management and compliance matters.
• Develop and deliver timeline and accurate risk intelligence at both an operational and executive level, enabling informed decision-making.
• Drive compliance excellence across the Bank's risk framework and policies through expert guidance and proactive oversight.
• Provide expert support to remediate key ICS risks, and drive accountability through systematic tracking of issue remediation, challenging delivery status and escalating delays to appropriate levels
• Ensure organisational resilience by supporting the ICS Function to be 'First to Know' its risks & issues, and to deliver on critical commitments
• Validate risk remediation effectiveness by ensuring all corrective actions completed by ICS adequately address underlying risks (including Audit issues and deep dive findings)
• Provide inspirational leadership through strong management and coaching of colleagues, fostering professional development and career growth
• Champion proactive risk assessment through strategic stakeholder engagement and continuous monitoring of the threat environment
• Drive operational efficiency by working with other control assurance teams to enhance effectiveness and reduce duplication across functions
• Ensure effective oversight by facilitating swift resolution of high impact risks and issues through appropriate governance mechanisms

Qualifications

•    15+ years in information / cyber security, IT/cyber security audit, Cyber Risk Management or similar
•    Demonstrated experience in building and managing high performing teams
•    University degree in Computer Science, Risk & Control or other relevant areas.
•    Expertise in information and cyber / technology risk management
•    Technical knowledge on security controls best practices across different platforms, systems and security tools.
•    Role model understanding of information/cyber risk management, risks and controls, audit and assurance methodologies.
•    Professional qualifications such as CISA / CRISC / CISM / CISSP will be advantageous.

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.
• 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.