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Assistant Manager, Trade Business Risk (Iraqi National)
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Job Description Apply now Requisition Number: 62265 Job Location: Baghdad, IRQ Global Grade: Band 8 Work Type: Office Working Employment Type: Permanent Posting Start Date: 11/09/2026 Posting End Date: 25/09/2026 Job Description:Are you a risk professional with a strong background in banking operations, governance, and controls? We are looking for a Assistant Manager, Trade & Cash Business Risk to strengthen our first line risk management framework and partner with business and operations teams to drive a strong risk culture across the Trade & Cash business.
In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing operational risk, governance, controls, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness across the country. You will work closely with business, operations, compliance, and risk stakeholders to identify emerging risks, strengthen controls, and ensure adherence to regulatory and Group standards.
Key Responsibilities
• Act as the primary risk partner for the Trade & Cash business, providing oversight of operational risk, controls, governance, and regulatory compliance.
• Identify, assess, monitor, and mitigate operational risks, ensuring effective execution of the Operational Risk Framework and adherence to Group policies and local regulations.
• Lead risk reviews, process assessments, control testing, issue management, and remediation activities to strengthen the control environment.
• Monitor risk metrics, KRIs, KCIs, operational losses, incidents, and audit findings, ensuring timely resolution and escalation where required.
• Support internal and external audits, regulatory reviews, governance forums, and risk committees.
• Partner with business, operations, compliance, audit, and risk stakeholders to drive risk awareness, control effectiveness, and continuous process improvement.
• Oversee regulatory change implementation, vendor risk governance, and risk-related projects within the country.
• Promote a strong risk culture through coaching, training, and stakeholder engagement.
Skills and Experience
• Strong experience in Operational Risk, Business Risk, Compliance, Audit, or Banking Operations.
• Knowledge of Trade Finance, Cash Management, and banking operational processes.
• Proven ability to manage risk frameworks, controls, governance, regulatory obligations, and audit engagements.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in data management and information security is advantageous.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Professional certification in Risk Management, Operational Risk, Compliance, or a related discipline preferred.
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.