Director, Cfcr Advisory, Platforms

Job ID: 28746

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 19 May 2025

**JOB SUMMARY**
- Materially contribute towards the implementation of the vision, strategy, and direction for Corporate Investment Banking (CIB), Platforms and Partnerships Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct Risk (CFCR) Advisory team, as set by the Head, CFCR Advisory, Platforms and Partnerships, specifically in the delivery of the CIB’s Client Lifecyle Management Transformation (CLM-T) Programme, in support of the 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 effective oversight and governance of CIB’S CLM-T Programme.
- Provide support with Group and Country Regulatory Engagements
- Provide oversight and challenge to drive the successful delivery of the CLM-T Programme, which will also include responsibilities over other areas such as credit, fraud, data, business development, Client Due Diligence, consent, complaints, ensuring effective implementation and for cross-skilling purposes.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Strategy**
- Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the CIB Platforms and Partnerships Strategy and CIB Client Portfolio to provide relevant CFCR advisory, oversight, and challenge to manage CFCR risks across the CLM-T Programme.

**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.
- 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 the CLM-T Programme. This includes supporting the maintenance of global CFCR Standards and processes.
- Support the Business in understanding the impact of changes in regulatory requirements.
- 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 and represents the CFCR position and risk tolerances.

**Processes**
- Drive the governance and oversight over the embedding of CFCR related policies and standard requirements within the CLM-T Programme.
- Support efforts to establish and maintain effective processes to ensure that policies and standards to address CFCR risk are effectively embedded within the CLM-T Programme. Provide second line oversight and challenge to ensure continued effectiveness and sustainability.
- Provide support and challenge to the relevant Business stakeholders e.g. COO teams to ensure that they establish and monitor appropriate processes for compliance with CFCR policies and standards (including meeting regulatory obligations and maintaining high standards of conduct).

**People & Talent**
- Role model the Standard Chartered valued behaviours and proactively contribute to maintain a strong culture within the team. Provide constructive developmental feedback at a business, function, country, and individual level as appropriate, in relation to CFCR matters.

**Risk Management**
- Support efforts to anticipate horizon risks that may have a significant impact on the Bank and the CLM-T programme, develop strategies to mitigate such horizon risks and ensure adoption into the CLM-T Programme.
- 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 the effective delivery of the CLM-T Programme.
- Support the proactive and timely engagement with the Lead Regulators and Country Regulators as required through the lifecycle of the Programme.
- Implement or contribute to the management of MI to ensure all issues and matters relating to the CLM-T Programme are tracked, regularly assessed, and reported on. Including oversight of any risk acceptances, dispensations, mitigating action plans, identification and management of high-risk clients, or specific country reviews.
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