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Associate Director, Control & Governance, Treasury COO
Standard Chartered
placeBangalore, IN
Posted on Standard Chartered website on 21 Mar 2025 (about 1 month ago)
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Job Summary

The Treasury COO team supports the Treasury process owners and teams with pro-active non-financial risk management. This is executed through activities such as design and maintain the non-financial risk controls and annual risk and control self assessments, implementing bank wide control initiatives within Treasury, assessing ongoing non-financial risk and working to build the foundations for future growth.

As such the Manager will:

•    Support the implementation of non-financial risk initiatives in Treasury.  •    Ensure that effective systems and operational controls are in place and adhered to. •    Support the simplification and standardisation of operational processes and procedures where relevant. •    Support the transition of initiatives being adopted and transitioned into BAU Support the implementation of non-financial risk initiatives in Treasury.  •    Support implementation of Treasury wide initiatives for non-financial risk across Model risk and Deterministic Quantitative Methods, Technology risk, Data management risk, Information Cyber Security risk, OCIR and resilience.  •    Work with key 2LOD and 1LOD stakeholders to ensure that the requirements are simplified, relevant and commensurate with the risk appetite of Treasury. •    Communicate, train and raise aware of new requirements in Treasury, both generally and with the key GPOs and their teams.  •    Coordinate the gap assessments, working with the GPOs.  •    Develop the implementation plan in conjunction with GPOs and 2LOD.  •    Support and coordinate the implementation.  •    Ensure that effective systems and processes are implemented that will support the implementation.  •    Ensure adequate operational controls are in place and adhered to. •    Conduct review and challenge session and assurance reviews to ensure adequate implementation of requirements.  •    Simplify and standardise operational processes and procedures where relevant. •    implementation.  •    Work with GPOs and RFOs to ensure all stages of implementations are in in agreement and approved by key stakeholders. 

Key Responsibilities

Support the simplification and standardisation of operational processes and procedures where relevant.  •    As part of the implementations, partner with GPOs and other parts of Treasury COO to identify opportunities and facilitate process engineering.  •    Using risk management MI and insights to identify areas of priority to strengthen Treasury. 

Treasury governance:  •    Provide regular project updates on progress.  

Transition to BAU  •    Ensure all process changes, risk and controls are completely and accurately assessed and implemented in M7.  •    Ensure BAU roles & responsibilities are documented, agreed and approved. •    Ensure the initiatives are adopted and transitioned into BAU. 

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. •    Contribute to non-financial risk agenda to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: : Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.   •    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders •    Treasury Non-Financial Risk and Conduct team •    Wider Treasury COO team •    Global Process Owners / their delegate.  •    Group Operational Risk representatives for Treasury plus the M7 team.  •    Group CFCC partner for Treasury  •    Risk Framework Owners / their delegates •    Group Internal Audit

Other Responsibilities

  • Contribute to Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Treasury COO.  

Skills and Experience

  • Non-financial risk management    
  • Treasury / Markets / Operations risk management    
  • Attention to detail    
  • Succinct communication focussing on key messages     
  • Stakeholder engagement (across geographies)    
  • Technical skills like Advanced Excel (including macro) Python, SQL knowledge.       

Qualifications

•    Experience in working with onshore teams and stakeholders.  •    Strong interpersonal skills with ability to network and influence decisions within the business and within infrastructure/ support teams. •    Excellent communication skills, both oral and written English. •    Excellent problem-solving skills •    Ability to manage projects and timely delivery.   •    In-depth expertise in the Bank’s ERMF and Non-Financial Risk Type Frameworks, control and governance.  •    Model risk, Compliance risk, Operational risk, Technology risk, Data risk, Third party risk, etc.  •    Working experience of op risk systems.  •    Knowledge of Treasury business practices, methodologies, products and operational processes. •    Prior work experience relating to change management or new process implementation. •    Flexible and responsive nature to handle multiple initiative and changing priorities •    An inquisitive “challenge the status quo” approach to existing practices and procedures. •    Knowledge of SCB architecture, processes and systems is an advantage.  

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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