Director, Cfcr Advisory, Cib Client Coverage ]

Job ID: 24250

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 2 Apr 2025

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Materially contribute towards the implementation of the vision, strategy, and direction for Corporate Investment Banking (CIB), Client Coverage Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (CFCR) Advisory teams, as set by the Global Head, CFCR Advisory, CIB Client Coverage in support of the CFCR function and the Bank’s strategic direction and growth aspirations.
- Continue to improve the Group’s approach towards reducing regulatory conduct and financial crime risks throughout the CIB Client Coverage client lifecycle (from on-boarding to off-boarding) to protect the reputation of the Group and to avoid significant financial loss.
- Provide exemplary support to colleagues with responsibilities for CIB Client Coverage. Primary focus will be on Payment Services (FinTech, Digital Assets, and Correspondent Banking) but may also include other areas such as credit risk, fraud risk, data, business development, Know Your Data, Client Due Diligence, complaints, or sustainability for cross-skilling purposes.

**Business**
- Build and maintain an effective and constructive relationship with all key business and functional stakeholders that is based on trust, capability, and integrity. Provide and succinctly communicate timely and quality CFCR advice, analysis, and challenge (as appropriate) to enable the business and functions to achieve their objectives. Focus will be on, but not limited to, Payment Services Clients.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the CIB Client Coverage Corporate Strategy and the Payment Services Client Portfolio to provide relevant CFCR advisory, oversight, and challenge to manage CFCR risk.
- Provide robust challenge to senior management and all relevant business stakeholders where activities are outside risk tolerance/ appetite, escalating as necessary, until appropriate oversight and ownership is achieved. This may include overseeing any remedial actions needed to come back within risk tolerance/ appetite.
- Support the maintenance and refresh of relevant CFCR frameworks applicable to CIB Client Coverage. This includes supporting the maintenance of global CFCR Standards and processes.
- Embrace the SPOC model. This includes (but is not limited to): taking ownership of incoming queries by not handing them off, taking a leading role in actively becoming the go-to person for the business/function and ensuring advice provided is consistent throughout CFCR Advisory in relation to CIB Client Coverage.

**Risk Management**
- Support efforts to anticipate horizon risks that may have a significant impact on the Bank and develop strategies to mitigate such horizon risks including global standards for conduct of business.
- In the event of serious regulatory (or risk tolerance) breaches ensure appropriate and timely escalation within the Group and that actions are taken quickly to remediate and/or activities are ceased. Ensure proactive and timely identification, assessment, advice and dissemination of evolving regulatory changes/practices and associated risks impacting CIB Client Coverage.
- Lead and/or support the review of new-to-bank Payment Services Clients or new high complexity flows of existing-to-bank Payment Services Clients. Including the thorough assessment of the inherent compliance and financial crime risks and review of the Client’s FCC control framework.
- Collaborate with the Digital Asset Centre of Excellence and CFCR SC Ventures to identify and manage CFCR risks arising from Standard Chartered’s Digital Asset initiatives which impact CIB Client Coverage.
- Implement or contribute to the management of MI to ensure all issues and matters relating to CIB Client Coverage (focusing on, but not limited to, Payment Services) are tracked, regularly assessed, and reported on. Including oversight of any risk acceptances, mitigating action plans, identification and management of high-risk clients, or specific country reviews.
- Play an integral role in the effective management of CFCR Advisory matters, and in collaboration with the wider CFCR team, effectively manage regulatory issues that have a significant impact on the Group.
- Provide robust challenge to and maintain oversight of risk acceptance and/or mitigating action plans relating to CIB Client Coverage where CFCR is the Risk Framework Owner.
- Take a leading role in the proposal of control improvements, enhancements and simplifications relating to CIB Client Coverage processes that manage CFCR risk (focusing on, but not limited to, Payment Services).
- Collaborate with relevant business and CFCR stakeholders to work towards holistic risk management across client segments / products risks.
- Assist the Global Head of CFCR Advisory, CIB Coverage to provide reports to relevant Group and Business risk and control committees and manage