Director, Transaction Banking Data Risk and Governance

Director, Transaction Banking Data Risk and Governance

The Director, Transaction Banking (TB) Data Risk and Governance role is to lead and support the Data Risk & Governance agenda flowing from the Data Conduct Policy and its related Standards for the Transaction Banking (TB) business. This includes:

• Data Quality
• Records Management
• Data Privacy
• AI Ethics

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Partner with Risk Framework Owners / Process Owners to ensure First Line Business & Functions perform Data related Risk & Controls Self-Assessment (“RCSA”) at the required frequency intervals; provide healthy challenge to the risk assessments performed where required; and assess adequacy of controls / in managing their Data risk.
• Provide feedback on any changes being proposed to the Data policies and underlying standards that impact TB.
• Attend the TB Data Risk & Governance Steering Committee, contributing material inputs on data risks as relevant.
• Execute on education and training needs for respective risk types for TB Staff.
• Effectively engage senior business stakeholders across geographies, including local Audit and CFCC teams when required.
• Ensure TB Country Process Owners have adequate treatment plans in place to address any Data Risk elevations providing assurance and challenge that remediation is fit for purpose and in line with Group Standards requirements. Ensure risks are appropriately prioritised against other risk types.
• Lead / co-ordinate all Data Conduct initiatives across TB, working in close partnership with Cash and Trade business teams on execution of specific deliverables and ensuring the TB approach is coherent and efficient. Also represent TB on Corporate and Investment Bank (CIB) and Chief Data Office (CDO) Data Management working groups to ensure proposed initiatives / solutions are fit for purpose and address risk reduction.
• Drive completion of key milestones for TB in collaboration with TB / CIB Group Data teams and in accordance with the Risk Remediation Plan / Risk Treatment Plan as appropriate.
• Work with relevant stakeholders to simplify and templatise Group standards and accompanying Country Addenda / Schedule to facilitate operationalization of the standards within TB e.g. Data Sovereignty.
• Act as the TB single point of contact on regulatory and internal initiatives (e.g. Data Standards implementation) that impact the wider TB footprint e.g. Data Sovereignty, Records Management and BCBS 239.

Business

• Data Risk & Governance – BAU.
• Lead Book of Work items to remediate regulatory and audit commitments across TB Data Risks, managing prioritisation, defining and driving delivery of risk treatment plans, assessing and reporting progress and risk.
• Monitor data risk reduction / regulatory compliance levels across Data risks. Ensure ownership of tasks is allocated to the correct business or technology representatives for action.

Processes

• Discharge the abovementioned Data Risk & Governance responsibilities across the Process Universes for both TB Business and TB Operations and Technology.

People & Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values, working collaboratively within the team and with the wider stakeholder network.
• Engage in ongoing training and development for professional and personal growth.
• Ensure individual performance against the identified responsibilities and objectives.
• Drive superior risk outcomes and risk culture for Data Management in TB.
• Actively participate in a strong knowledge sharing and collaborative culture. Raise awareness about the importance of Data Management through education, training and other awareness program.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Regulatory & Business 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

• Global Head, Data Conduct CFCC.
• CIB Data Governance team.
• Data Risk peers across CIB.
• Data management policy and standard owner & subject matter experts.
• TB COO.
• TB Head, Conduct & Control.
• TB process owners.
• Data Domain Owners within TB.
• Group Operational Risk.
• Audit.
• Chief Data Office.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years experience in the financial services space in data risk.
• Prior experience in transaction banking would be preferred.
• Strong project management experience will be required for this role.
• Degree level education or equivalent.
• Industry related qualification in the role.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Corporate Governance.
• Technology.
• Transaction Banking knowledge.

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.

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.

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