Job Summary

Strategy

• Driving optimal performance through evolving the FM Central Control Group Target Operating Model, clearly defining roles and responsibilities and team coaching and management.  Setting clear direction for the team.

Business

• Markets Control Assurance supports the Markets Risk and Control function.  

The activities include: •    Oversees production of Risk Publications on risk reporting and hygiene actions to ensure the business and the Markets COO MT have full visibility of the risks. •    Runs Control Monitoring to ensure robust, consistent and sustainable assessment of controls are executed in line with ORF. •    Support Global Process Owner for risk assessment and M7 (Group OR management system) data management. Acting as a support partner to Markets risk management team

Processes Risk Reporting •    Production and distribution of Markets risk reports as per the agreed timeliness and frequency. •    Ensuring the reports are generated and delivered in a timely manner to the respective stakeholders. •    Escalation of incidents effectively and efficiently. •    Providing information and analysis to management committees and governance forums. •    Development and execution of governance routines. •    Provide oversight and education/awareness on policy change. •    Coordination of risk assessment activities.

Key Responsibilities

Governance

•    Attend relevant management meetings.  •    In the event of serious regulatory breaches, or where risk tolerances have been breached, ensure senior management and relevant regulators are informed and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased. •    Prepare and cascade lessons learned from audit findings, and specific investigations. Analyse and interpret data to produce reports that help the bank identify and manage emerging areas of risk / vulnerability and thus drive remediation action within the function.

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. •    Lead the [country / business unit / function/XXX [team] 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.] * 

Skills and Experience

•    Markets COO Management Team •    Markets COO Controls Department •    Markets Operations Management Team •    Markets Operations Risk Management Team •    Markets Front Office staffs and supervisors •    Data providers

Qualifications

• Risk & control and analytics work experience and demonstrated career progression/increase in responsibilities    
• Strong product knowledge in financial markets, e.g. derivatives (FX, Rates, Commodity and Credit), Fixed Income, FX, Money Market.    
• Adequate knowledge around Tableau and Excel as these tools are primarily used to produce the MIs and also able to troubleshoot and resolve issues on these tools. Proficient in SQL will be a plus.    

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.