Director, Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (Poland & India)

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Director, Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (Poland & India)

Risk & Compliance

Assurance is a Second line defence function established under a delegated Mandate from the Group Chief Risk Officer and the Group Head of Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance (CFCR). The primary role of Assurance is to provide a risk-based independent view to Senior Management in the business/functions, Second Line and the Board as to the effectiveness of the bank’s policies, processes, systems and controls. It facilitates identification of any gaps & inefficiencies, enabling prompt corrective action to be taken, and is a key source of evidence for the Board & Regulators. Assurance is part of the reasonable steps taken in support of SMF 4, 16 & 17 responsibilities. 

The Director, CFCR Assurance role operates within a globally integrated and fungible operating model, working closely with others in the CFCR Assurance team to focus on delivery of Assurance reviews within the CFCR Assurance remit.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Co-Lead, CFCR Assurance in delivering a strategy for risk-based and data-enabled assurance coverage across CFCR Assurance, aligned to the Bank’s risk profile, regulatory expectations and internal commitments.
• Support the agenda to drive a collaborative risk and control ecosystem across the three Lines of Defence, including effective reliance and remediation tracking.
• Support the agenda to drive a culture of continuous improvement in assurance delivery, including consistent methodology application, strong documentation and evidence standards, and timely reporting and escalation.
• Provide support on the delivery of the assurance plan and book of work to ensure alignment to CFCR Assurance priorities.
• Maintain a strong quality culture across planning, fieldwork, reporting and issue validation.
• Maintain strong awareness of CFCR Assurance regulatory expectations, internal policies/standards, and leading practices in risk management, control testing and assurance.
• Work closely with teams across the three Lines of Defence, building good working relationships and engaging with 1LoD testing teams and Risk owners.
• Follow the Group’s policies and standards, including how we carry out assurance work, track issues, and keep documentation clear and consistent.
• Retesting of controls to support the assessment on both design and operating effectiveness across key processes
• Support the delivery of a dynamic plan that focuses assurance activity on areas of highest risk and greatest potential impact, including thematic work across geographies where appropriate.
• Communicate issues and testing insights clearly to senior stakeholders as required, including through concise reporting, escalation and remediation validation

Skills and Experience

• Strong assurance, risk and control testing, regulatory inspection within a banking environment.
• Substantial experience in the banking industry, including demonstrated success in a similar role, including across a range of risk areas.
• Experience in optimising processes, including via the use of technology.
• Strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and personal authority based on trusted relationships.
• Strategic vision for the function.
• Excellent communicator, effective leader and manager of complex, highly matrixed organizations and the ability to explain complex risk terms in business language.
• Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across country, region, business, and group stakeholders
• Strong drive, high levels of integrity, independence, and enthusiasm.
• Strong expertise in data analytics, AI, automation, and technology risk management in banking.
• Strong presentation skills and the overall knowledge, sound judgement and courage of conviction.
• Experience in leading transformations in risk and control testing/audit/assurance (is an asset).
• Experienced in leading and motivating teams (is an asset). 

Key Skills

• Risk Specialism
• Market Expertise
• Independent Challenge
• Commercial Mindset
• Execution - Driven
• Critical - Thinking
• Solution Driven
• Proficiency in Tech, AI/ Automation
• Managing Change & Conflict
• Integrity
• People Leadership
• Stakeholder management & Influence

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.
• 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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