Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

FM Business Risk Manager, Sales COO is a hands-on, results oriented role supporting the Financial Markets activities across FM Sales and Structuring region.

The role is responsible for the delivery of a robust controls environment which enables the business to meet its overall financial objectives and protecting the best interests of our clients.

Why should you apply?

• Fast growing center of service to Financial Markets (FM) business
• Agile business, ability to progress quickly
• Work with FM Sales COO and key stakeholders including FM Business Heads, FM Regional teams , FM Functional teams to identify and mitigate business risk .
• Play crucial role in building better control environment using technology.
• Develop awareness and understand the challenges and complexity of the products and FM business for Sales and Structuring

Business

• Understand the overall Enterprise Operational Risk Framework, the Process Universe (PU),Financial Market (FM) Top Risks, Potential Failures / Causes (PFs), related Controls and associated Metrics to ensure we have a safe and robust operating environment.
• Identify and report failures in processes and material breaches to controls.
• Leads the design and implementation of new controls and monitors required to fulfil new internal policy / regulatory requirements.
• Manage Management Information (MI) and changes in Risk data using M7 platforms, to assess materiality of risk that drives our risk agenda priorities.
• Work closely with COO Rules Engine and FMSW teamsin the automation of controls.
• Develop DOIs and provide guidance to Central Control Team (CCG) for test control checks for wider implementation to ensure the effective offshoring of existing control monitors and new ones as they arise.
• Assist business in audit preparation work and regulations enquiries.
• Prepare presentation materials for ad hoc, monthly, and quarterly forums.
• Support and operate appropriate risk related forums.
• Facilitate management communications to persuasively communicate the business opportunities, vision for solutions and key competitive differentiators.
• Acting as a support partner to FM Sales COO Management Team.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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

• FM Sales COO
• FM Sales and Structuring Management Team
• FM Regional COO teams
• FM Functional Heads
• Group Internal Audit
• FM Legal
• FM Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance (CFCC)
• FM Operations

Other Responsibilities

• As delegated by line management from time to time

Our Ideal Candidate

• Over 3 years of relevant experience.
• Strong risk management and controls background.
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Strong presentation, time management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong communication and presentation skills to varying levels of management.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to manage multiple work streams with strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Able to communicate and articulate ideas and solutions to stakeholders in order to overcome problems.
• Strong advocate of continuous improvement in quality and delivery of the team.
• Competent in using Microsoft Office tools (especially PowerPoint and Excel) and Tableau, as these tools are primarily used to produce the MIs and present data to stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, FM process supervision and governance, financial crime compliance will be an advantage.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Analytical and Software Skills

• Data interpretation, visualisation, and reporting
• Adequate knowledge around Microsoft Office (especially Excel) and Tableau, as these tools are primarily used to produce the MI
• Must be able to troubleshoot and resolve issues on these tools

Core

Problem Solving Skills

• Identify issues and explore solutions
• Decision making
• Product knowledge in financial markets, e.g. derivatives (FX, Rates, Commodity and Credit), Fixed Income, FX, Money Market, is preferred

Time Management

• Prioritisation and multitasking

Communication Skills

• Speaks effectively with clarity and precision verbally and through email communication

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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