Job Summary

• This Job Description should be read in conjunction with the relevant terms of reference, the Group’s Governance Manual which sets out responsibilities for establishing, maintaining, and implementing the Group’s high-level systems and controls, policies and procedures, and the role-holder’s contract of employment. The role-holder acknowledges that they understood and will abide by the responsibilities set out in the Governance Manual as well as ensure compliance with Group Code of Conduct, and the local regulators Statements of Principle and Code of Practice for Regulated roles.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• RRSD Unit faces the Group Risk Function with a peripheral support to CEO CIB Function. It handles a wide spectrum of activities to support the Enterprise Risk Analytics, Traded Risk Management, Risk & Compliance Reporting teams of the Group Risk and Retail Credit Risk reporting for Group Retail Risk. The unit is also currently expanding itself to support the CEO CIB Office with Credit Portfolio Management. Various sub-units underneath RRSD are listed below

Risk Data Hub

• Risk Data Hub’s primary responsibilities include Data Sourcing and Maintenance of risk data. This involves a set of data wrangling activities – gathering, transforming, mapping, building business views and automation of sourcing processes that would help enrich the quality of data and make it appropriate for the downstream purposes such as analytics, reporting and visualization. ]

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

• Help to ensure appropriate BAU controls being established and deployed effectively in GBS. 
• Work with partner teams to create and build next generation data products and analytics solutions.
• Assess problem statements & propose potential solutions by advocating and enabling data-driven analytics.
• Contribute/lead development of prototype solutions coordinating with other areas of ERM as appropriate, demonstrate to users and gather feedback.
• Conduct thorough validation and data quality checks to ensure accurate and value adding solutions being delivered 

Business

• Work collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders, across all seniority levels, to address urgent and strategic risk management needs.
• Coordinate with ERM teams such as Stress Testing, IFRS9 and Credit Risk Modelling to establish how existing results/analytics or processes can be leveraged

Processes

• Provide expertise in migrating PoC projects to productionise in collaboration with various teams   

People & Talent

• Lead through example and demonstrate the bank’s culture and values 

Risk Management

• Identify, assess, monitor and mitigating risks to the Group relevant to Data Quality 

Governance

• Ensure the adherence to Group BCBS 239 standards when appropriate
• Provide timely and high-quality responses to both internal and external queries and requests.  

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

• Enterprise Risk Analytics
• Group Model Validation
• CIB, Commercial & Retail Risk
• Group Internal Audit
• Model Risk Management
• Group Operational Risk
• Technology
• CDO

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); 

• Bachelor or Master’s degree with technical degree preferred (statistics, mathematics, computer science, etc.)
• Extensive programming experience using SQL, Python, SAS, Excel Automation.
• Strong analytical mindset with excellent analytical, logical, reasoning and problem solving skills.
• Hands-on experience in data used for models development and best practices in data management   
• Previous experience on risk management, Stress Testing or IFRS9 is an added advantage 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills at all levels (i.e. colleagues to senior management) and situations (i.e. one-on-one to presentations)
• Exposure to advanced machine learning methodologies is a plus 

Skills and Experience

• Banking Risk Management
• Python, R, SAS and/or MATLAB
• Excel
• Data sciences
• SQL

Qualifications

• Knowledge of data models
• Coding knowledge preferable
• Product knowledge
• Tableau

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.