Business Risk Manager, Markets COO

Job ID: 41415

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 27 Oct 2025

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business Risk Management

• Oversighting delivery of Markets' regulatory Book of work and risk treatment plans (both BAU/ investment funded).
• Reviewing / assessing demand from Global / country process owners based on risk outcomes, and to ensure it meets the objective / criteria of the Markets Non-Financial Risk Programme Steering Committee. ("NFR PgSC")
• Liaise any elevated risk issues where applicable to Global BRMs/ Clusters COO team.
• Working with the Product Owners to review/ asses capacity in order to meet the demand.
• Be the "connector" between global and local and importing / exporting best practices.

Regulatory Compliance

• Ensure adherence to local and extraterritorial regulations.
• Support local / global regulatory and internal audits and Compliance reviews where required.

Business Governance, Conduct & Supervision

• Support the running of the Markets NFR PgSC.
• Continuously seek out process simplification and re-engineering opportunities to improve operational efficiency
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders and ensure submissions to Markets NFR PgSC are accurate, complete, reconciled (where relevant), specific to the requirements and timely.

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.
• Lead the Markets COO Clusters BRM team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles FM Code of Conduct .
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• CIB Product and Segment Partners
• Global/ Clusters Markets Heads
• Cluster and local CFCC
• Cluster and local Operational Risk
• Cluster and local Internal Audit
• Operations, Technology, Finance, Legal Control and Risk Functions
• Markets COO team across business and geographies.

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Markets COO team; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats)

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years of experience in the banking industry, with exposure in Markets business
• Strong project management skills and the ability to co-ordinate across a wide range of stakeholders
• In-depth knowledge in Markets products and exposure to audit / risk / product / regulatory / policies management.
• Proven history of managing key stakeholders and demonstration of problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
• Able to multitask and manage different initiatives at a time with strong execution focus.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and strong in verbal, presentation, and written communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA or relevant professional certification preferred

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Markets Products/ Process Knowledge
• Manging Non-Financial Risk
• Analytical Thinking
• Regulatory Environment –Markets business
• Project Management
• Effective Communication
• Stakeholder Management

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.

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