JOB SUMMARY

The Risk Advisory will play a key role in ensuring risks are effectively managed in alignment with regulatory requirements and the Bank's risk framework. You will develop and manage regulatory clearance and engagement strategy for projects and initiatives which relate to data, technology, operations, and outsourcing risk, and participate in the roll-out with business lines, functions, and other compliance teams.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Map Group processes to Regulatory requirements with a Customer Journey focus

• Provide concise and relevant status updates to stakeholders, project working groups, project steering committees and proactively escalate issues as necessary 

• Undertake quality assurance reviews of documentation required for country engagement, at times providing input to facilitate preparation of materials required for regulatory approvals 

• Have an awareness of the overall cloud technology and carry out day-to-day work in a manner that achieves those overarching goals

• Identify and evaluate risk response options and provide management with information to enable risk response decisions

• Review risk responses with the relevant stakeholders for validation of efficiency, effectiveness and economy

• Apply risk criteria to assist in the development of the risk profile for approval

• Assist in the development of risk response action plans to address risk factors identified in the organizational residual risk profile.

• Implement tools to facilitate management dashboards and system managed workflows such Compliance Dashboard

• Provide subject matter expert advice, guidance and support on all matters related to Cloud Clearing House and Material Cloud Arrangement Profile submissions

• Advisory on Risk assessment narratives - quality and consistency

• Read, understand and interpret relevant regulations and act as the Subject Matter Expert for application and development teams onboarding to the cloud

• Build, manage and maintain relationships with global and regional teams across the bank (including Operations, Information Security, Compliance, Legal, Risk and Control and Audit).

• Work with the following Key Stakeholders:

  • Applications or project team from Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB), Wealth & Retail Banking (WRB), Functions, Technology & Architecture (T&A), Information & Cyber Security (ICS)

  • Risk Manager for each domain

  • Operational, Technology & Cyber Risk, CISO, Architecture

  • Technology CIO or their delegates for each domain

  • Group Internal Audit

​​​​​​OUR IDEAL CANDIDATE

• Has a Bachelor's Degree in IT/ Finance/ Business / Economics or other relevant discipline

• Has at least 8 years of experience in IT Audit, Information Security and/or Risk & Compliance

• Has a detailed understanding of the technology regulatory landscape for Financial Services, with a specific focus on Outsourcing and Cloud

• Has knowledge and experience in Cloud Governance, Regulatory and Compliance and Cloud technology – AWS, Azure, Cloud risk and control (AWS/Microsoft)

• Has strong influencing and English communication skills – oral, written and presentation.  

• Has excellent interpersonal skills and are adept at building relationships with different stakeholders.

• Knows Agile Methodology

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.