Job Description

The CIB Strategic Regulatory Initiatives Team sits within the COO office for the Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) business.

The team provides CIB with capabilities to drive regulatory and risk programmes and initiatives across CIB businesses, working in an agile operating model with each segment and product area. Due to the nature of these programmes and initiatives, the team support not only the CIB Business but more broadly collaborate and engage across other divisions in the Bank to ensure delivery of pan-bank regulatory and risk initiatives, especially where the majority of work or accountability sits within CIB.

Such regulatory and risk programmes and initiatives may include for example:

• Complex/Large-scale Regulatory Change (LSRC)
• Material Policy changes
• Internally-driven programs supporting the management of regulatory interactions and change (for example, how we engage our regulators and track resulting regulatory actions and commitments)
• Topical strategic risks
• Strategic change within CIB Conduct & Control, Resilience and Fraud
  
  

The team enables the business to proactively impact assess new programmes and initiatives, coordinate the approach and interpretation across businesses; support the delivery and partner with the business teams to implement requirements in a consistent and coordinated manner.

The role will primarily provide business analysis capabilities to drive the delivery of CIB regulatory programs and initiatives and/or their corresponding workstreams, along with ability to provide project management and change management insights/capability.

The role may support active and inflight programmes, including (but not limited to) the following:

• EU CSDDD (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive – supporting the bank by ensuring we integrate sustainability and human rights considerations into risk management and decision-making processes, promoting responsible and ethical business practices.
• Cross Border initiatives – support CIB ability to deliver cross border regulatory and risk remediation projects and programmes
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Co-ordinate and support project/programme deliveries, including planning, analysis, solutioning, and coordination of inputs from stakeholders
• Lead business analysis efforts to identify and understand business needs, translating them into actionable requirements
• Manage workstream deliveries across various stakeholder groups, drive regulatory team agenda and maintain governance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and optimize business processes as required, driving improvements in efficiency and effectiveness
• Work closely with 1LOD stakeholders to support changes
• Collaborate with 1LOD CIB business change teams to achieve common interpretation, understand business-specific impacts and identify any conflicting areas of interpretation
• Work closely with 2LOD stakeholders across Principal Risk Types to lead CIB regulatory interpretation and impact assessment of “complex, large scale regulations” applying to CIB
• Support CIB wide impact assessments of new/amended relevant Policies/Standards relevant to identify key 2LOD requirements, and ensure consistent understanding and interpretation across the businesses
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to analyze and optimize associated business processes as required, driving improvements in efficiency and effectiveness where applicable
• Work with technical delivery teams to support requirement interpretation and implementation where required
• Work with technology and architecture teams to ensure programme goals and deliveries are aligned with wider Bank technology strategy
• Support project implementation and delivery activities, working alongside technical delivery teams
• Track and manage implementation and delivery risks and issues
• Prepare data and analytics to support reporting requirements
• Support change management activities to ensure changes are embedded into day-to-day operations, including through communications and training
• Manage and issue communication strategy and plans for CCIB regulatory initiatives (across group, region and country, depending on the impact)
• Engage with cross-bank teams on deployment of training. For instance, deliver “train the trainer” awareness on CCIB-wide requirements
• Provide post-go-live support to businesses to resolve any implementation issues and/or challenges
  
  

Skills and Experience

• Minimum 6 - 8 years of hands-on experience in business analysis/ project / programme management and stakeholder management in financial services
• Experience successfully managing regulatory and risk programmes and projects, in Financial Services
• Knowledge of CIB business segments and product areas
• Certifications: PMP certification or equivalent, Business Analysis certification or equivalent
• Awareness of IT best practices/IT service delivery frameworks e.g ITIL
• Hands-on experience working in an Agile environment
• Hands-on experience working on ADO or equivalent
• Knowledge / experience with regulatory change/implementation would be an advantage
• Ability to take initiative, identify opportunities and work with minimal management oversight to drive the best outcome possible
• Hands-on individual contributor with an eye for detail and proactive, self-managed work style
• Excellent written, communication and presentation skills; able to effectively engage, influence and manage senior business stakeholders
• Experience working in a collaborative manner with global teams
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Multicultural awareness
  
  

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.

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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
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