Job Summary
The Strategic Regulatory & Risk Initiatives Team sits within the Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) COO.
The team has capabilities to drive large-scale regulatory and risk programmes and initiatives across businesses and International Markets, working in an agile operating model with each segment and product area. Due to the nature of these programmes and initiatives, the team supports not only the CIB Business but more broadly collaborate and engage across other divisions in the Bank to ensure delivery of pan-bank regulatory and risk initiatives, especially where most of the work or accountability sits within CIB.
The role sits under the Strategic Regulatory & Risk Initiatives Team. The team enables the business to proactively impact assess new programmes and initiatives, coordinate the approach and interpretation across businesses; support the delivery and partner with the business teams to implement requirements in a consistent and coordinated manner.
The role holder will support key programmes delivering regulatory, risk, and strategic initiatives, with core responsibility for structuring, establishing, and coordinating the underlying workstreams. The role also entails driving effective change management, providing insights and capability to support sustainable transformation across the portfolio. In this capacity, the role holder will be accountable for ensuring the Bank's compliance with applicable regulatory requirements through successful programme execution, proactive risk management, and close engagement with senior stakeholders to ensure alignment, transparency, and delivery of strategic outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
Program Delivery
- Support the delivery of key regulatory and strategic programmes, including initiatives such as Cross Border Risk Management and Product Lifecycle Optimization. Support the planning, coordination and tracking of progress to ensure alignment with the Bank's priorities. Support the execution of programmes through progress tracking and coordination across multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
Cross Border Risk Management -
- Support the delivery of cross-border risk programme aimed at strengthening the Bank's end-to-end cross border control environment across client engagements, booking practices, and licensing governance.
- Front end discovery and mapping of current-state cross-border frameworks to identify control gaps, manual dependencies, and inconsistencies across countries and business lines.
- Support the centralized entity permissions repository build to ensure its fit for purpose
- Facilitate alignment between 1LOD, 2LOD, Product Services team and control functions to define common standards, decision flows, and escalation paths for cross-border activities.
- Support development of automated validation rules, and preventive controls to improve visibility and reduce breach risks.
- Product Lifecycle Optimisation
- Contribute to programmes focused on improving the Bank's E2E Product lifecycle optimization including New Product Implementation, Product governance and Taxonomies rationalisation framework, ensuring greater efficiency, control, and transparency across the product suite
- Support the initiative from initiation and approval through growth by coordinating activities across technology, product, risk, and controls
- Help design and embed enhanced product taxonomies, classification standards, and approval workflows to strengthen data integrity and regulatory reporting.
- Contribute to embedding product governance principles into BAU processes, ensuring accountability and ongoing compliance with internal standards
- Contribute to the establishment of programme governance frameworks by coordinating documentation, reporting, and stakeholder updates to ensure transparency and accountability.
- Coordinate and monitor progress across multiple workstreams, tracking milestones, identifying dependencies, and supporting timely risk and issue resolution.
- Assist in defining and implementing delivery plans, scope, timelines, and success metrics in collaboration with project leads and key stakeholders.
- Act as a key liaison between 1LOD, 2LOD, business units, and change teams, ensuring consistent understanding of programme objectives and impacts across functions.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to assess, simplify, and re-engineer existing business processes, embedding opportunities for automation and operational efficiency.
- Support change management initiatives by contributing to communication plans, stakeholder engagement, and training to ensure smooth adoption of new processes and systems.
- Prepare high-quality reports, dashboards, and presentations to support senior management updates, steering committee discussions, and decision-making forums.
- Track programme budgets, resource allocations, and deliverables, highlighting variances and supporting the development of mitigation actions where required.
- Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, Finance, and Technology teams to ensure programme delivery aligns with regulatory expectations and risk management standards.
- Maintain structured documentation, audit trails, and programme artefacts to support internal reviews and ensure adherence to governance requirements.
- Contribute to lessons learned exercises, capturing improvement opportunities to strengthen delivery practices for future initiatives.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
- CIB COO Central Teams
- 1 LOD and 2 LOD teams
- CIB Business teams
- TTO teams
- CIB Operational Risk
- Members of the CIB Regulatory Refinement Forum and other relevant governance forums
- Relevant technology and architecture teams supporting regulatory and/or risk change initiatives
- Other pan-bank teams
Other Capabilities
- Strong Program Management, problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and work with minimal management oversight to drive the best outcome possible
- Experience in cross border risk management and product lifecycle management will be an added advantage
- Hands-on individual contributor with an eye for detail and proactive, self-managed work style
- Excellent written, communication and presentation skills; able to effectively engage, influence and manage senior business stakeholders
- Experience working in a collaborative manner with global teams
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Multicultural awareness
Qualifications
- EDUCATION: Graduate / MBA (optional)
- TRAINING: 7 years of hands-on experience in Project Management, Data analysis and stakeholder management
- CERTIFICATIONS:
- PMP certification or equivalent (preferred)
- Agile certification (preferred)
Skills And Experience
- Managing Change
- Project Management
- Business Analysis
- Effective Communications
- Analytical Thinking
- Regulatory & Compliance
- Data Analytics
Competencies
Action Oriented
Collaborates
Customer Focus
Gives Clarity & Guidance
Manages Ambiguity
Develops Talent
Drives Vision & Purpose
Nimble Learning
Decision Quality
Courage
Instills Trust
Strategic Mindset
Technical Competencies: This is a generic competency to evaluate candidate on role-specific technical skills and requirements
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.
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