Job Summary
Strategy
• Align to WRB Business and Operations strategic agenda and aid WRB in growing responsibly, supported by processes that allow faster and safer delivery of WRB products in a commensurate control environment.
Business
• Awareness and understanding of the business, economic and market environment where the Group operates
• Support WRB Business by providing risk management and governance support.
Risk Management
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the Enterprise Risk Management Framework in WRB through design of the business process universe, annual risk control and self-assurance exercise and resulting inherent and residual risk assessment.
• Process owner delegate for Complaints Management Process - Ensure controls are designed for risk reduction where the inherent risk is identified as high or medium. Ensure risk acceptances from risk owners are in place and accompanied with a treatment plan for risk reduction if required.
Governance
• Ensure effective governance of WRB Risk Committee.
• Ensure the Committees fulfil their responsibilities of effective risk governance within WRB e.g. timely escalation of material risk issues from business segments, regions and countries to the WRB Risk committee.
• The job holder will be appointed as the Secretariat of the WRB RC. Responsibilities includes but not limited to: plan, coordinate and manage the committee effectively. Ensure papers are of quality and articulate the risk issue being discussed clearly. Document the proceedings of the committee and ensure that action plan decided at the committee are tracked to closure
• Drive the completion of risk processes that are first line responsibility such as the top down review for WRB
• Drive the WRB Risk Review updates to the GRC and BRC
• Oversight over timely completion treatment plans, audit actions, annual RCSA process, etc
• Oversight of the WRB Scorecard around Risk Score and Audit Self-Identification rates
Key Responsibilities
Third Party Risk Management
• Responsible for the implementation of third party non-vendors in compliance with PRA SS2/21 by September 2024. Post which, transition of the activities into BAU support.
• Ensure that WRB complies with the Third Party Risk Standards and Policies Non-Vendors; and provide sufficient oversight of Vendors Third Party Risk via metrices as agreed with RFO
• Prepares periodic WRB Third Party Risk updates to the GTPRMC
• Ensure that all Treatment Plans and GIA Management Action Plans are completed and closed on a timely manner
• The job holder will be appointed as the WRB Product Owner delegate for the Redux Tool which is jointly owned by CIB
• Support the RCSA process in relation to Third Party Risk Management for WRB non-vendors
• Participate and support any pan-bank initiative impacting Third Party Risk Management
Others
• Support the WRB COO in preparing for the GNFRC meetings
• Support the annual Corporate Planning Risk Challenge Process
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
• WRB MT, Regional WRB COOs, BRM Heads, Secretary of Governance Committee.
• TPRM Specific: Group OR, WRB OR, Group & WRB Legal, CIB non-vendors uplift teams, GIA, CFCC, SCM and teams supporting Third Party Risk Assessments (eg. CDO, TPSR, Resilience, FCSO)
Our Ideal Candidate
· 10+ years of relevant experience in Risk Management
· Governance & Change Management Experience
· Strong experience in People Management
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Manage Risk
· Manage People
· Business Facilitation
· Manage Change
· Business Governance & Support
· Strategy & Business Model
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.
Recruitment Assessments
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