Director, CFCR CIB Client Coverage

Role Overview This role will provide CFCR advisory for Correspondent Banking covering Asia (GCNA and ASA) for CIB Client Coverage clients. It will contribute to the vision, strategy, and direction for CIB Client Coverage CFCR Advisory teams, improving the Group’s approach to reducing regulatory conduct and financial crime risks throughout the client lifecycle, and supporting other areas such as FinTech, Digital Assets, credit risk, fraud risk, data, business development, KYD, CDD, complaints, or sustainability for cross‑skilling purposes. Key Responsibilities 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. Provide CFCR oversight, advisory, and/or challenge to the management of event driven risk in the Asia Correspondent Banking client portfolio. This includes supporting the assessment of inherent compliance and financial crime risks, reviewing Clients’ FCC control frameworks, and participating in ‘compliance to compliance’ meetings. Implement or contribute to the management of MI to ensure all issues and matters relating to Correspondent Banking in CIB Client Coverage 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. 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 risks in Correspondent Banking. Assist the Global Head of CFCR Advisory, CIB Coverage to provide reports to relevant Group and Business risk and control committees and management group on key CFCR risks and issues pertaining to Correspondent Banking. Provide intelligence and analysis (to internal forums) on specific clients, client‑types, and emerging risk typologies, and to support the calibration of bank’s Risk Methodologies (including aggregate client risk, product risk and country risk assessments). Drive the identification and escalation of potential risks and issues to senior management through appropriate governance channels and the Quality Assurance framework. Support the management of end‑to‑end life cycle of audit, assurance, and regulatory reviews, in relation to CIB Client Coverage (with a focus on Correspondent Banking), including tracking, remediation, and preparing lessons learned from such reviews. Develop control effectiveness and efficiency improvements and simplifications where appropriate. Within the Group's overall ERMF, support risk‑based compliance frameworks for identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, mitigating, and reporting compliance and financial crime risks relevant to Correspondent Banking in CIB Coverage. Drive the governance and oversight over the implementation of CFCR related policies and procedures with respect to CIB Client Coverage Correspondent Banking. Support efforts to establish and maintain effective processes to ensure that policies and standards to address CFCR risk are effectively implemented across CIB Client Coverage. Provide second line oversight and challenge to ensure the continued effectiveness of CIB Client Coverage owned processes in relation to Correspondent Banking. 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). 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. Pro‑actively share subject matter expertise, best practice, and lessons learned across the network between CFCR Advisory and Centre of Expertise colleagues especially in relation to regulatory compliance and financial crime compliance risks as they pertain to CIB Client Coverage Correspondent Banking. Assist CIB Client Coverage Advisory CFCR teams in regions and countries as needed. Collaborate with training teams to input into Correspondent Banking training curriculum(s) to support closing of capability gaps and to meet the training needs of CIB Client Coverage. Assist from a CFCR perspective in the review of new business requirements and provision of solutions for CIB Client Coverage relating to Correspondent Banking. Support key change programmes and projects for CIB Client Coverage CFCR Advisory and CIB Client Coverage as required. Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escape, mitigate, and resolve risk and CFCR matters. Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across the Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct. Contributing to drive the CFCR CIB Coverage Advisory teams to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; and The Right Environment. Other Responsibilities Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in CFCR CIB Client Coverage Advisory Team. Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and standards. Qualifications The candidate will ideally require experience working in a Financial Institution with Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) or Compliance experience supporting Correspondent Banking. University Graduate or equivalent degree preferred. 8+ years working in Financial Institutions and/or FinTech Entities in FCC or Compliance Functions. Experience assessing and managing FCC and/or Compliance risk associated with Correspondent Banking. Ability to foster positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders at a senior level ensuring open collaborative environment. Ability to work independently and deliver efficient outcomes working through complexity and ambiguity. Demonstrated relationship building skills - both internal and external across multiple jurisdictions. High level of integrity and professionalism. Strong planning and organisational skills. Professional Accreditation such as Enhanced Competency Framework (ECF) under the HK Institute of Bankers (HKIB) would be an advantage. 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. 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 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr