Market Business and Clients Solutions Business Risk Manager

Standard Chartered Life and Careers; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 85,000

Job description

Market Business and Clients Solutions Business Risk Manager

Join our dynamic team as a Risk Manager for B&C Solutions in the UK or France. In this role, you will be pivotal in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks within the Markets business. Collaborating with internal teams and stakeholders, you will ensure regulatory compliance, implement risk management strategies, and support operational excellence across jurisdictions.

• Risk Strategy: Develop and maintain a robust risk framework for the Markets team, ensuring alignment with industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., EMIR, MiFID, Dodd-Frank).
• Incident Management: Respond to and manage risk incidents, ensuring timely reporting, stakeholder communication, and policy adherence.
• Audit Preparedness: Lead preparation for audits, document concerns, and serve as a focal point during fieldwork.
• Regulatory Compliance: Collaborate with operations, risk, and compliance teams to address incidents requiring regulatory reporting.
• Risk Oversight: Ensure risks are accurately logged in the bank’s monitoring systems, including M7, and escalate as needed to relevant committees.
• Control Implementation: Oversee the integration of policies and procedures into BAU activities, including RCSA completion, service management, and business continuity planning.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with Trading, Sales, and other relevant teams.

Skills and Qualifications

Skills

• Expertise in operational risk management within financial markets.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory frameworks (e.g., EMIR, MiFID, Dodd-Frank).
• Proven ability to manage change and drive process improvements.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with operational tools like M7 and risk assessment methodologies.

Qualifications

• University degree preferred.
• Background in operations, process improvement, or Middle Office functions.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex regulatory environments and mitigate risk.

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.

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.