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Head, Client And Sales Technology
Standard Chartered
placeBangalore, IN
Posted on Standard Chartered website on 05 Apr 2025 (15 days ago)
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Key Responsibilities

Strategy

•    The role will provide strategic technology leadership to the FSS business lines, playing an integral role in the growth and development of the Investor segment through digital delivery of reliable technology services. The role will shape the strategy of Custody Client and Sales business service offering competitiveness to Clients and ensure solutions are not only strategically aligned but are consistent with the goals and objectives from an operational perspective.   •    Leverage technology where appropriate to streamline processes, enhance productivity, reduce risk, and improve controls. •    Deliver Technology end to end in a highly automated manner. 

•    Provide the leadership for a seamless service experience throughout the technology service lifecycle, ensuring that technology services are future proof and aligned with the overall objectives and governance standards of Group and Regions business. •    Responsible for engagement with the business for product volumes across markets, new clients, key/ hyper care clients across geographies.

Business

•    Work hand in hand with the Business, Operations and FSS Product teams to understand the business needs and deliver using either internal or vendor solutions where appropriate. •    The role will implement processes to monitor and track the impact on revenue (in terms of dollar), and clients due to technical issues on technology platforms.  •    The role will execute strategies at par or better than competitors service proposition offering in Client RFP process. The role will articulate SCB technical capabilities, service levels, resiliency postures in sales RFPs to position SCB competitiveness standing.  •    Ensure third party negotiations with vendors are constantly striving toward the best commercial outcome both upfront and for the operational cycle of the engagement. •    Support the local teams outside of FSS Global across Kora and Indonesia.

Processes

•    Provide input to different risk and Governance bodies as key stakeholder for assessment and mitigation of risk.

People & Talent 

•    Attract, employ and retain industry certified technology professional to serve the business lines with consistency.

•    Make the SCB brand attractive to attract, employ and retain high quality talent with right skills and experience who can scale and operate across the distinct business lines with consistency, and promote team diversity across technical capability, background, gender, and race.

•    Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that teams members are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks. •    Lead through example and build appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations for the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners. •    Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives

Risk Management •    Proactive in seeking regular assurance that the FM Technology Teams are performing to an acceptable risk and control standard. •    Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees. •    As required, act as the risk control owner under the Group’s risk management framework at the appropriate level. •    Balance business performance delivery and cost management constraints with risk and control matters to ensure that they do not materially threaten the Group’s ability to remain within risk appetite. •    Engage with local regulators across Europe where required

Governance 

•    Attend FM VAT and Tech Council as required, ensuring compliance with Architecture Principles and adherence to the Architecture Roadmap.  •    Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct in the FM Technology Team to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture. •    Ensure compliance with all salient SCB governance frameworks where there are direct touchpoints with them or any subsequent downstream influence from the FM Technology and In Country teams. •    Ensure compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. This includes compliance with local banking laws and anti-money laundering regulations and guidelines.

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. •    Lead the Transformation, FM Team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: FM Code of Conduct  •    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. •    Keep abreast of local regulatory standards and ensure teams are compliant.

Key stakeholders

•    FSSMT •    FM Technology Leadership Team •    ITO Finance •    FSS Operations •    FSS Products •    CIB architecture /TSA organisation 

Skills and Experience

  • Business - Market Knowledge    
  • Operational Risks
  • Analytical Thinking    
  • Risk Management    
  • Regulatory Environment - Financial Services    
  • Manage Risk    
  • Problem Solving    
  • Understanding Customer Needs    
  • Internal Controls    

Qualifications

  • Financial market knowledge with some experience in Securities services especially around Custody and Fund Accounting Technology: – awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the firm operates. An experience in handling investor segment including Asset Owners and Asset managers is preferred but not a must have.  
  • Business Strategy and Model: – awareness and understanding of the firm’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
  • Risk Management and Control: – the ability to identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks to the firm. Also, an awareness and understanding of the main risks facing the firm and the role the individual plays in managing them.
  • Financial Analysis and Control: – the ability to interpret the firm’s financial information, identify key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures.
  • Governance, Oversight and Controls: – the ability to assess the effectiveness of the firm’s arrangements to deliver effective governance, oversight and controls in the business and, if necessary, oversee changes in these areas.
  • This role would require 15+ years of relevant experience, covering the implementation of strategy into technology solutions and demonstrable understanding of financing and securities services business.
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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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