Executive Director, Non-financial Risk Management and Oversight

Job ID: 33483

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 3 Jul 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**- The role-holder will also provide and demonstrate effective oversight of the key frameworks including the design and delivery of initiatives and project-based activity to enhance the process and control framework in an efficient and sustainable manner driving a culture of excellence.- **RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Provide CIB wide coverage and oversight of non-financial risk management to ensure these are effectively embedded across all businesses.
- Monitor and respond to emerging and horizon risks impacting CIB and drive the review of processes, controls and frameworks where required, to ensure these are effectively managed.
- Act as a champion for strategic design and or change initiatives and the implementation thereof to enhance non-financial risk capabilities across the CIB businesses.

**Business**
- Demonstrate a deep understanding of the CIB businesses.
- Partner with the different business teams to drive the NFR agenda and become a trusted advisor and team player focused on delivering the right risk management outcomes for CIB.
- Co-ordinate, drive and deliver business wide review activities across the business areas within CIB.

**Processes**
- Lead, drive, co-ordinate as appropriate review teams to drive effective, practical, and timely review and evaluation of standards, identifying gaps and opportunities for enhancement or efficiency gains.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders across the CIB business and other areas as may be the case to ensure a risk-based approach in the execution of control monitoring and risk management activities.
- Identify and support opportunities to enhance and uplift control design working across teams to ensure the control framework is robust and effective in mitigating risk.

**People & Talent**
- Demonstrate an inquisitive mindset that will continually look to push the status quo on risk management.

**Risk Management**
- Conduct review and oversight activities to ensure effective and efficient processes are in place to identify, manage, monitor, and report on non-financial risk across CIB.
- Produce and provide regular, clear, risk focused updates for business management demonstrating delivery against agreed objectives and effective action across the CIB businesses.
- Advise and guide CIB businesses on evolving non-financial risk threats, industry trends and the external regulatory environment
- Partner with Process Owners to ensure controls are optimally and sustainably designed to mitigate risks and effective outcomes are driven from Risk and Control Self-Assessment Processes.

**Governance**
- Report and escalate on a timely basis into the appropriate governance forum on risks and issues, control weaknesses, incidents, and review activities as applicable
- Promote and maintain a strong and effective first line of defence risk culture across the CIB businesses.
- Engage in a collaborative and pro-active manner with key stakeholders across the second and third lines, and external as applicable, to ensure issues and feedback is acted upon timely.
- Support risk reporting in formal risk governance meetings through taking ownership / participating insight risk governance papers to appraise senior management on first line risk management activities.

**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.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Key Stakeholders**
- CIB MT
- CIB COO MT
- CIB Heads of Conduct and Controls
- CIB Chief Risk Officer
- CIB Head of Global Internal Audit
- External - regulatory authorities and external audit

**Other Responsibilities**
- Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Singapore CIB Conduct and Control Team
- Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.
- 10+ years of experience in financial services preferably corporate banking
- A strong audit and or risk and control background
- Data-oriented personality with a client centric mindset
- Strong communication and influencing skills
- Exposure to working with multi-cultural/geographic teams and prior experience working in a matrixed environment
- Desirable - risk management certification / qualification

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Business Markets
- Risk Management
- Data Gathering & Analysis
- Effective Communication

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