Job Summary
At Standard Chartered, we are building a sustainable and scalable digital assets compliance framework that enables innovation while maintaining the highest standards of governance, integrity, and regulatory compliance.
We are seeking an experienced Digital Assets Compliance professional to join our Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance and Conduct Risk (CFCR) function. In this highly visible role, you will provide expert, risk-based advisory support on digital asset activities across Europe, helping ensure the consistent interpretation and application of regulatory requirements, policies, and enterprise standards.
As a trusted advisor to business and functional stakeholders, you will play a critical role in embedding digital asset compliance into business-as-usual activities, strengthening organisational capability, and supporting the Bank's strategic ambition to create a self-sustaining ecosystem where digital assets expertise is integrated across Compliance, FCC, Conduct, and the wider business
Key Responsibilities
• Maintain functional and practical alignment with the Hub to ensure consistent interpretation of regulatory requirements and policy intent.
• Participate/lead, where appropriate, cross-CFCR (and other functions, if applicable) calibration sessions and thematic reviews led by the DA CFCR hub.
• Contribute knowledge sharing through documenting case precedents, lessons learned and insights for the enterprise knowledge base.
• Support the design and delivery of training modules aligned to key DA risk themes or specific to CFCR products and/or personas.
• Act as a key agent (or lead, where asked) on DA for CFCR advocacy, regulatory consultation, policy updates and rollout, updates to frameworks and guidance both internal in the function and with the business as required in the BAU CFCR team’s remit.
• Promote the culture and practice of compliance with CFCR standards (including conducting business within regulatory requirements, and to high ethical standards) within the Bank and embed a Here for good culture and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Establish close links with colleagues leading other CFCR Advisory teams to achieve common platforms and work plans, implementing a One Bank approach to covering all Clients.
• Input to Country and Europe Region Business operating model design of relevant CFCR and business processes
• Deliver timely, risk-informed advice on digital asset products, clients, and transactions in the context of the team’s remit and responsibilities.
• Apply enterprise frameworks, policies, and standards in business-specific contexts.
• Support design and review of controls within business activities, product approval and governance, and client lifecycle processes, as applicable.
• Identify emerging risks and escalate complex/novel scenarios to the DA CFCR Hub.
• Contribute to the process optimization and digital enablement of DA CFCR activities, e.g., workflow tools, dashboards, and ACR.
• Partner with the business, where appropriate, to embed DA compliance aspects.
• Ensure that BAU DA work references and aligns with enterprise DA CFCR outcomes to drive consistency and support organizational goals.
Skills and Experience
Essential Experience
- Strong experience navigating regulatory change programmes within Europe.
- Deep understanding of the evolving digital assets regulatory landscape and its impact on financial institutions.
- Knowledge of digital asset licensing requirements and regulatory frameworks across European markets.
- Experience providing compliance, regulatory, conduct, or financial crime advisory support in a complex financial services environment.
- Ability to interpret regulation and translate requirements into practical business guidance.
Technical Expertise
- Sound understanding of Compliance, Financial Crime Compliance (FCC), and Conduct Risk frameworks.
- Strong knowledge of compliance policies, procedures, standards, and governance practices.
- Experience assessing risks associated with innovative products, technologies, or emerging business models.
Personal Attributes
- Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and sound judgement in complex regulatory environments.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to operate effectively across multiple jurisdictions and stakeholder groups.
- Fluent professional English, both written and spoken.
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.