Job Summary

The role is responsible for the identification, assessment, and mitigation of the local risks within the Markets business. The role requires collaboration with 2nd and 3rd line and BRMs within Markets and CIB to ensure compliance with regulations and to implement effective risk management strategies.

About our Financial Markets Operations Team

Our Financial Market Operations team partners with our sales and product colleagues to play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless execution and settlement of complex financial transactions. By removing inefficiencies and complexity, we’re responsible for delivering a positive client experience and leading transformational change. It’s challenging, strategically important work, and you’ll continuously innovate to ensure we stay at the forefront of technological industry trends. Join our team to build your career at the very heart of the financial industry.

About our Technology and Operations Team

Our Technology and Operations (TandO) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.  When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today. 

Key Responsibilities

• Support in developing risk conduct across Markets, focus on bringing functional teams up to industry standards to ensure team meets policy
• Oversight and ownership from a risk perspective of all open risks related to Markets and specifically Business & Client Solutions, this should include all jurisdictions where reporting is required.  There should be an emphasis on knowledge in a key markets EMIR/MiFID/DF etc
• Work closely with the Business & Client Solutions team to ensure their risk framework efficiently matches the current risks
• Work with operation teams, group risk and compliance if there are any incidents that need to be reported to a regulator – making sure that key stakeholders are kept informed of developments
• Audit face off & task ownership e.g. responding to requests during fieldwork
  • Prepare for audits by ensuring any concerns are fully documented and where possible resolved prior to audit
  • Work with audit and be a focal point for them where needed

• Performing risk assessments for ad-hoc events such as external event read-across
• Primary Risk / Event Incident Response Mgmt. (flash, escalation).
  • All risk incidents are shared across all stakeholders as per policy
  • Ensure all risks are correctly logged in a timely manner into the bank’s risk monitoring system
  • M7 administration (Risk event logging)

• RCSA Completion - Refreshes and annual submissions
• Evaluation and escalation of risk profiles to relevant committees / forums
• Control Oversight for GPOs
• Oversight of service management e.g. IGAs, BCP planning, TPCP, TPRM
• Implementation of policies and procedures into BAU (Markets specific and firm-wide)

Skills and Experience

• 7+ Years Banking experience
• 3+ Years Operational Risk Experience
• Financial Markets Product Knowledge

Qualifications

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.